Local Christians get in on the whole veiled threats thing
TORONTO: JULY 28, 2008 -- An airplane tows a banner that reads "JESUS SUCKS!" over Toronto on Monday, July 28, 2008. Kenny Hotz, of Kenny vs Spenny fame, arranged the prank as part of their new show about who can "piss off more people". (source: Tracy Cohen, Associate Producer )
I love Kenny vs. Spenny – classiest show on TV. This week’s challenge is who can piss off the most people. Sounds cool – I’d recommend standing on a corner giving cigarettes to people’s kids; or wait till about 5:30, go to Union Station, stand at the Subway booth and start counting out pennies.
Anyhow, you can see from the caption what Kenny did. The reaction though! Three articles (1, 2, 3) in today’s National Post because people are so pissed off.
But that’s not the thing, get this – the veiled threats, they’re coming from Christians now. From Gail Reid of the Evangelical Fellowship of the rings:
“I’m sure some people will find it humorous,” she said, “but I think we’re perhaps throwing a match in a tinderbox. We do need to be very, very careful of one another and be respectful.”
From Gail Shabazz, or Gail Mustafa Ali, I could see that. But Reid? I thought it was just the Sunni and the Scientologists. Are all the religions going to get in on this now?
‘Pray tell’, why do we need to be careful?
Kenny is an evil genius. Full stop.
Raphael Alexander
July 30, 2008 at 2:51 am
I loved it when he gave Spenny that tumor or when he faked his mother’s death – AWEsome.
Robert
July 30, 2008 at 2:53 am
My favourite is the drinking contest. Spenny almost kicked Kenny’s ass, and he was cheating.
Raphael Alexander
July 30, 2008 at 3:25 am
‘Pray tell’, why do we need to be careful?
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I have no clue who this Gail Reid is, nor am I a practicing Christian, but let me take a stab at answering that question. This is what she might have meant:
1) “We”, (ie) “Christians”, are coming under increasingly loud and strident but exceedingly absurd attacks from the lunatic left about being no different from the radical Islamists, so “we” must be careful not to do anything that might give that camp any ammunition.
2) “We, being Christians, must respond with Christian charity and not allow our anger to propel us to act in an unChristian manner.
How’s that?
Louise
July 30, 2008 at 3:36 am
So full of win!
Sarah
July 30, 2008 at 5:52 am
Here’s a good response to this stunt.
Louise
July 30, 2008 at 11:25 am
How would one know who won this challenge? Whoever received the most hate mail?
totaltransformation
July 30, 2008 at 5:18 pm
if we, practising christians, respond in anger to what the enemy not the perpetrators of this stunt, but the enemy of us all, beleivers or non-beleivers, satan, we fall into his devices. we must respond and not react to these actions or any other that might come along. remember; “we wrestle not against flesh and blood…”
i would recommend my husbands blog site: bibleanswerstoyourquestions.typepad.com
very comprehensive answers to biblical questions.
kayochoa
July 30, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Terror and it causes as much involved individuals as it did nations. There was a true irony in the western world that had moved away from God, the same irony found in history when in 1492 Columbus sought a passage to India to the west so he did not have to go through territories of the Ottoman Turks. They were tough fighters, those Ottoman Turks, with a fire within. And in the current war on terror, the United States and Europe were afraid of radical components of Islam that had appealed to the poor, a component that called a people to prayer when in their world, a secular world, there was so much affluence and less and less organized prayer. In the current EU, few people worshipped –less than 20% of the people in Belgium worshipped collectively on a weekend, as one example. And in such an environment of nominal Christianity, Americans were willing to give up the foundation of civil liberties for what was called Homeland Security? THAT was the underlying conflict that no one saw in the United States –the basis for so much fear was a religion, when religion was becoming something to be feared in the west, in Canada, in the United States.
Mattie
July 30, 2008 at 8:03 pm
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Steynian 210 « Free Mark Steyn!
July 30, 2008 at 9:57 pm
I’m surprised that taking pokes at Jesus would offend much of anyone in Canadia. Perhaps he could inflame more people by standing in front of a bus or train loading area passing out leaflets explaining that “everything good in this world comes from white men.” We would know he won the challenge because he would probably be beaten to death by noon.
びっくり
July 30, 2008 at 10:47 pm
We would know he won the challenge because he would probably be beaten to death by noon.
Nah. Canadians are too pacifistic for that.
Raphael Alexander
July 31, 2008 at 3:23 am