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Post by Vene on Nov 19, 2010 21:51:15 GMT -5
I had a youth pastor once that was against Futurama because he thought Leela's tank top was cut too low. I'd be more concerned about the Professor's random nudity.
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Post by Thejebusfire on Nov 19, 2010 21:55:50 GMT -5
I had a youth pastor once that was against Futurama because he thought Leela's tank top was cut too low. I'd be more concerned about the Professor's random nudity. Or Bender's constant looting and boozing. Or the robot Devil.
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Post by The_L on Nov 20, 2010 7:33:46 GMT -5
They still cry over Harry Potter, Pokemon, pop music, etc. It just does not attract the mainstream media attention anymore because it's old news. The next time something else comes out that captures the attention of the youth and becomes more popular than Jesus ever could possibly dream of being -- the fundies will be on it like the proverbial flies on the proverbial shit and the mainstream media will be there to dutifully cover the story. But the old complaints never fully die it just gets ignored after it's no longer new. I received this comment not long ago: " godlesspanther Beatles were turning the youth of America at that time onto drugs and eastern beliefs and were doing LSD which opens you up to demons. It is a portal into the dark occult world where the devil and his angels dwell. Crowley was a Satanish plane and simple, burning in hell's flames right now for disobeying the Lord Jesus Christ." We can still find fundies bitching about Elvis, women wearing pants, -- and, no joke, the Earth revolving around the Sun. The stuff about the Beatles being evil never fails to make me giggle, since almost every song they wrote is completely innocuous. No violence, and the only song that gets more risqué than ZOMG HAND-HOLDING is "I Am The Walrus," which is so surreal anyway that there's no point in getting worked up over it. It's like the RR's never heard the songs "Wake Up, Little Suzy" or "Hey There, Little Red Riding Hood.". Now THOSE were racy as he'll for the time.
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Post by Julian on Nov 20, 2010 9:35:00 GMT -5
I had a youth pastor once that was against Futurama because he thought Leela's tank top was cut too low. I'd be more concerned about the Professor's random nudity. Well whatever gives you impure thoughts I suppose... Is there something you haven't been telling us about your Uni courses?
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Post by The Lazy One on Nov 20, 2010 9:41:50 GMT -5
I had a youth pastor once that was against Futurama because he thought Leela's tank top was cut too low. I'd be more concerned about the Professor's random nudity. Or the tentacle monster from The Beast With A Billion Backs.
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Post by worlder on Nov 20, 2010 13:21:57 GMT -5
See the thing is they are look for is subversive content.
Things that are blatantly a bad influence are usually too over the top to be taking seriously. Unless they are prudes with no sense of humor.
But things that are good might contain some bad subtext that somehow the audience will automatically unconscious read and agree with.
They never look to the explicit only to the implicit.
Much like how they read certain parts of the Bible that involves crushing the enemies. Explicitly it describes seemingly unnecessary genocide and war waged by God's chosen. Implicitly it is your typical good vs evil story.
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Post by anti-nonsense on Nov 20, 2010 14:35:07 GMT -5
They still cry over Harry Potter, Pokemon, pop music, etc. It just does not attract the mainstream media attention anymore because it's old news. The next time something else comes out that captures the attention of the youth and becomes more popular than Jesus ever could possibly dream of being -- the fundies will be on it like the proverbial flies on the proverbial shit and the mainstream media will be there to dutifully cover the story. But the old complaints never fully die it just gets ignored after it's no longer new. I received this comment not long ago: " godlesspanther Beatles were turning the youth of America at that time onto drugs and eastern beliefs and were doing LSD which opens you up to demons. It is a portal into the dark occult world where the devil and his angels dwell. Crowley was a Satanish plane and simple, burning in hell's flames right now for disobeying the Lord Jesus Christ." We can still find fundies bitching about Elvis, women wearing pants, -- and, no joke, the Earth revolving around the Sun. heck, there are people that seriously believe there's a vast conspiracy to hide the fact that the world is really flat. No matter what, there are people that will disagree with anything. There are probably people that would disagree with the fact that that the sky is blue and the grass is green.
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Nov 20, 2010 20:09:15 GMT -5
They still cry over Harry Potter, Pokemon, pop music, etc. It just does not attract the mainstream media attention anymore because it's old news. The next time something else comes out that captures the attention of the youth and becomes more popular than Jesus ever could possibly dream of being -- the fundies will be on it like the proverbial flies on the proverbial shit and the mainstream media will be there to dutifully cover the story. But the old complaints never fully die it just gets ignored after it's no longer new. I received this comment not long ago: " godlesspanther Beatles were turning the youth of America at that time onto drugs and eastern beliefs and were doing LSD which opens you up to demons. It is a portal into the dark occult world where the devil and his angels dwell. Crowley was a Satanish plane and simple, burning in hell's flames right now for disobeying the Lord Jesus Christ." We can still find fundies bitching about Elvis, women wearing pants, -- and, no joke, the Earth revolving around the Sun. The stuff about the Beatles being evil never fails to make me giggle, since almost every song they wrote is completely innocuous. No violence, and the only song that gets more risqué than ZOMG HAND-HOLDING is "I Am The Walrus," which is so surreal anyway that there's no point in getting worked up over it. It's like the RR's never heard the songs "Wake Up, Little Suzy" or "Hey There, Little Red Riding Hood.". Now THOSE were racy as he'll for the time. "Bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer came down on her head..."
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Post by worlder on Nov 20, 2010 20:23:58 GMT -5
Do fundamentalists ever take things at face value?
Or do they try to look for fine print that isn't there?
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Post by Sigmaleph on Nov 20, 2010 20:27:26 GMT -5
Fundies take things at face value if it's convenient. Hence the whole "This Bible verse is obviously literal/This Bible verse is obviously allegorical" dance.
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Post by godlesspanther on Nov 20, 2010 22:45:45 GMT -5
The stuff about the Beatles being evil never fails to make me giggle, since almost every song they wrote is completely innocuous. No violence, and the only song that gets more risqué than ZOMG HAND-HOLDING is "I Am The Walrus," which is so surreal anyway that there's no point in getting worked up over it. It's like the RR's never heard the songs "Wake Up, Little Suzy" or "Hey There, Little Red Riding Hood.". Now THOSE were racy as he'll for the time. The Beatles did songs that were not safe as milk for the time. Why Don't We Do it in the Road? Sexy Sadie. If you read the material that was written about them at the time by people such as David Noebel, Bob Larson, etc it's clear that they were seen as a genuine threat to society. They were connected with overt sexuality, communism, drug use, anti-authoritarianism, etc. "Bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer came down on her head..."
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Post by worlder on Nov 21, 2010 1:04:48 GMT -5
Well if attacking a work that explicitly promotes something is one thing.
Attack a work because one interprets it to have something one opposes it another thing entirely.
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Post by syaoranvee on Nov 21, 2010 21:54:48 GMT -5
You'll always see them going after books:
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Nov 21, 2010 22:07:32 GMT -5
The number one thing for a Christian to be offended of in Futurama is the episode that parodies Creationism.
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Post by Thejebusfire on Nov 21, 2010 23:33:07 GMT -5
God forbid that guy ever pick a Hellsing manga. He might shit himself.
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