OK, Let’s Scratch The Surface (for now).
The Tall Skinny alerted me to these posters this morning over at this site. And we discussed them a bit in his live Happy Hour. They are a series of posters they created to poke fun at the emerging church and those with “generous orthodoxies”. God forbid we should have a generous orthodoxy. Although I suppose I’m not being too generous right now.
Maybe I’m just overreacting . . . or maybe it was just that this article saying that Al Qaeda loves the emerging church and that only conservative evangelicals are the ones saving this country has gotten me a bit riled up.
But what do you expect when you create reductionist junk that, if I’m not mistaken, says all “non-traditional” people are goth-emo-core tattooed freaks. Is that too snarky?
At the risk of starting a fight I thought I would create my own and dedicate them to the Patriots of The Old Modern Way. BTW – You’ll need to see the originals before these make sense. Because all I did was hijack their sayings and flip them.
James Kingsley
Wednesday, 25. July 2007 um 6:19 pm Uhr
golden. nothing beats a parody of a parody.
mike
Wednesday, 25. July 2007 um 7:12 pm Uhr
dude i don’t know why this upsets you. aside from the generous orthodoxy one i would embrace all of those posters. especially the one with the beer.
i mean, what the fuck is wrong with beer? what makes a good parody is that there is just enough truth and that truth is exaggerated and characitured right?
we should applaud the folks over there for at least mustering up a sense of humor that goes beyond the blue collar comedy tour.
i think i want to put that one with the tatted up guy about not cussing on a shirt.
btw, yours are pretty good as well. a little “tit for tit” if you know what i mean.
(i will give one poo dollar to the first person to identify where i got “tit for tit”)
MerGal
Thursday, 26. July 2007 um 1:34 am Uhr
If these are supposed to caricature Phil Johnson’s beliefs, I think you have missed the mark. He recently said he agrees with the Emerging dislike for evangelical right-wing involvement. I don’t think he insists on teetotaling, either, if that’s what your grape juice means.
Johnson’s parodies may be over the top, but at least he has made an effort to learn something about the point of view he is mocking.
Creative sadness « Intelligence and Ignorance
Thursday, 26. July 2007 um 5:51 am Uhr
[...] think that, maybe, those who have created these posters (and those replying here) have forgotten the last two [...]
Eric
Thursday, 26. July 2007 um 8:50 am Uhr
I got one!
link
oops, wrong parody. my bad.
Derek
Thursday, 26. July 2007 um 10:16 am Uhr
Actually I like theirs and yours as well. But my favorite one is your “Apologetics” poster. Classic.
chriscarr
Thursday, 26. July 2007 um 4:36 pm Uhr
check this out…its a friend’s blog response to that site…
http://scottprather.blogspot.com/2007/07/fundies-with-stories-to-tell-or.html
Cathryn Thomas
Friday, 27. July 2007 um 12:29 am Uhr
Ok ya all after the Happy Hour with TSK… i was wondering who was gonna respond… That is too funny. I grew up in Jersey…. so when i moved down south…. what i learned is that Jesus Turned water into grape juice.. and if ya want my take… i think some are trying to turn it back into water!
So that is my grape juice comment… I hate Anything Watered down !! So awesome post.. and pass me the glass and lets pray over it!
shalom ya all, – Cathryn
IrishCalvinist.com » Ode to Dr Welch…well sort of
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Monday, 30. July 2007 um 11:52 am Uhr
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Thursday, 16. August 2007 um 6:52 am Uhr
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