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By Roy Edroso, Wednesday, Oct. 28 2009 @ 2:10PM
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Categories: Exploring the Right Wing Blogosphere, Religion, TV, The Arts
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On the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode aired on Sunday, Larry David took a leak, some of it got on a painting of Jesus, a Catholic saw the painting later and thought the painting had miraculously wept, etc. Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch readers find this (at present) the "cringe-iest"moment in the ep, beating "Larry grips belly fat to avoid death" by six points.

Some people are even more exercised and the profanation has the outrage mill in full churn.

"Would he think it comedic if someone urinated on a picture of his mother?" asks preeminent Catholic scold Bill Donohue. "This might be fun to watch, but since HBO only likes to dump on Catholics (it was just a couple of weeks ago that Sarah Silverman insulted Catholics on 'Real Time with Bill Maher'), and David is Jewish, we'll never know."

We'll probably never know how David's Judaism protects him in this case, either, but The Conservative Gentleman tries to provide a test case by painting a Hitler mustache on David's picture. "Now we have not had a serious axe to grind with Jews in the past," says the Gentleman, "but we are unsheathing and sharpening it for this one... Jews wonder why people around the world hate them, why they've been hated for thousands of years. Jews like Larry David are why." God, we've been waiting years for that explanation!...

You may read similar opinions at white power site Stormfront ("Like they won't be happy until people DO PERSECUTE them"), unless your blocking software disallows it.

Michael Savage, in a dramatic twist, comes to the defense of the Jews against Larry David. Savage believes David "needs to be stopped before he brings terrible calamity on the Jewish People" and suggests he is "an anti-Semite in Jew's clothing," as well as "a typical Brooklyn type" who, in typical rootless-cosmopolitan manner, "migrated out to Hollywood to produce this vulgarity." Savage also blasts the negative image of Judaism promoted by Seinfeld, Woody Allen, etc. Please, no one tell him about Arnold Stang.

The Conservative Beacon asks why doesn't David make fun of Muslims if he's so brave, then answers himself: "We must be ultra-sensitive and sympathetic to Muslims as a result of 9/11. We must spare their feelings." Another deathless question answered! Curb Your Enthusiasm should be reclassified as educational television.

Eventually critics bring out their biggest insult: David's work resembles that of Andres Serrano. "Larry David's 'Piss Christ,'" cries Big Hollywood. "If a crucifix submerged in urine can be high art," says Moonbattery. "why can't urinating on portraits of Jesus be high comedy?"

Inevitably, boycotts are proposed. Christians "will turn the other cheek by not watching you and not visiting your sponsors," claims Leaving Normal. "Cancel your HBO and tell your cable provider you will not subscribe to the appropriate plan until they remove it from their package," proposes The Gray Morass.

Others worry about fallout. "I assume another publicity hungry freak will try to top peeing on The Savior of all Mankind," says My Word and Welcome to It. Then he provides samples: "Pope answers ad on Craigslist to be a 'host' at an S & M party. We find out he likes to play the submissive male..." We hope he's registered this with the WGA.

Well, it's reached Fox News, quoting a blogger who demands an apology, so we assume the outrage has reached a head and will soon decline, to be replaced by some other anti-Christian menace -- like the Hate Crimes Bill.

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Comments (42)

Cable Guy says:

Boy, that was easy! I just called the cable company and canceled HBO, and got Cinemax for the same price. Better value for the dollar, too.

Posted On: Wednesday, Oct. 28 2009 @ 2:18PM
roy edroso says:

Skinemax, huh? Jesus thanks you!

Posted On: Wednesday, Oct. 28 2009 @ 2:23PM
Al Swearengen says:

Umm, you do know Cinemax is part of HBO, right?

Posted On: Wednesday, Oct. 28 2009 @ 2:28PM
rsietsema says:

I was amazed he could pee that high!

Posted On: Wednesday, Oct. 28 2009 @ 3:24PM
larry david says:

next up....pissing on ann frank...hahaha...pissing on ann frank's face...that's soooo funny; hahaha; i can't stop laffin; pissing on ann frank's face!

Posted On: Wednesday, Oct. 28 2009 @ 3:36PM
GiorgioNYC says:

Hilarious episode. Nearly lost my own bladder control. And am thoroughly delighted to see how Larry's "pissing" off the likes of Donohue, Savage, and sundry other far-right creeps.

Posted On: Wednesday, Oct. 28 2009 @ 3:53PM
wes says:

Christians are canceling TimeWarner cable by droves in North Texas per local TV news

Posted On: Wednesday, Oct. 28 2009 @ 4:03PM
pezzle says:

I think Larry WOULD laugh if someone peed on a picture of his mother, frankly.

Um...and wasn't Jesus a Jew, not a Catholic?

Posted On: Wednesday, Oct. 28 2009 @ 4:54PM
Ardelina Artist says:

GiorgioNYC, someone ought to piss on your face, say 50 people who would make you drink it.

Posted On: Wednesday, Oct. 28 2009 @ 5:03PM
Homer says:

Pissing on Jesus may be a kinder way to treat Jesus than ritually and cannabalistly eating his flesh and drinking his blood. As practised in a few interpretations of christianity, the catholic variety being one. Jesus might also have appreciated just being pissed on by humanity to make up for listening to the talking snake instead of being tortured and crucified to make his heavenly father ok again with humanity. (Does anyone else see the insanity in having a father demanding to torture and kill one of his kids?)

Posted On: Wednesday, Oct. 28 2009 @ 7:52PM
michael SEWAGE says:

I scream at the poor owner of a cheap greasy garbage asian restaurant that i go to because im such a dirtbag and a cheapskate. i make a scene like a homeless man who has lost his mind. all heads turn my way.

i rant and rave like a degenerate. i look filthy and disheveled. i act like a sewer rat.

why?

because i was given 4 pieces of garbage chicken on my greasy noodles when i think i deserved 5. i am such a stingy bastard that i scream and yell like a haldol starved street bum because ive been ripped off.

that is the kind of man i am
and i brag on the show what a big tipper i am.
im garbage and a cheap bastard and i know it.

and i scream at my sewage listeners:

FLUSH YOU !!
you filth, for listening to me.

the murderer of my retarded brother jerome
for i am michael SEWAGE.

so FLUSH YOU!!

Posted On: Wednesday, Oct. 28 2009 @ 8:20PM
michael SEWAGE says:

i trot out old brain damaged brother jerome when i need to raise money from you or show you im a nice guy.

here is a letter i recently found from brain damaged Jerome:.

dear hateful sewage brother michael,

why are you so horrible?
why are you such a hater?
why do you spread such hatred to others not like you?

i know dad was a mean and hateful little person. a horrible man. but i expected more from you. you were ostensibly educated. he was stupid and illiterate and uncouth.

but you are just like him.
full of lies and bias.
full of self promotion.
full of intolerance.
listen to me , sewage brother. this comes from the heart, from the dumping ground you and mom put me in in new york:

don't ever say how your heart "beats for two"
stop using me to promote yourself
i disown you
want nothing to do with you.
am ashamed of you
wish i had never known you.
you and your stupid whistling at me.
you idiot.
you are garbage, mike.
sewage to me.

Posted On: Wednesday, Oct. 28 2009 @ 8:22PM
michael SEWAGE says:

i walk around as if a piece of stinky cheese were under my nose 24/7. hating everyone. hating everybody.

eating and stinking of garlic and onions. not only can my family not stand me as a person, they cannot stand the smell of me --a walking garlic and onion bomb.

i am a cheap bastard. trumpet myself like im a big tipper when im a tightwad.

i am a horror as a human being .

i am the most negative , hateful person i know.

i hate everybody and everything, except for myself .

i shamelessly brag about myself, my "genius", my poetic runs of hateful language. compare myself to great musicians and artists when i belong in the sewage coming out of their toilets.

my family cannot stand me .

my brain damaged brother jerome should have lived. im brain damaged also, it is just that my speech centers were not affected. i can spew hatred forever. i should have been put away in the warehouse institution in new york, where i couldn't harm you the way i have.
im Michael SEWAGE

Posted On: Wednesday, Oct. 28 2009 @ 8:23PM
michael SEWAGE says:

i am a fraud as a phd. i was recognizied for the inferior thinker i was. created nothing. couldn't get along with anybody. that's why i wasn't hired. they saw i was sewage

and so , in addition to my phd work being a travesty and a slaughter of beautiful flowers that deserved to live, since i didn't have the foggiest clue what to do with them other than kill them, when i came time to hire me, everybody ran for the hills.

no only was i a fake as a scholar, but i was one of the meanest, self serving, arrogant, self promoting (due to feelings of inadquacy), cruelest, vindictive, horrible people they had ever met. there is no way that they would have me anywhere near them since i have no ability to get along with others--only antagonize them and browbeat them, as my father did with me.

what a hateful little man he was. stupid. uneducated. uncouth. a bundle of hate and a hater of others not like his stupid self.

what a horrible man he was. and i am just like him. and i am trying to make you just like me.

i a raw sewage. i steal from you. i intimidate you. i rip you off. and you just go along with it while i rub my hands with filthy greed

Posted On: Wednesday, Oct. 28 2009 @ 8:24PM
michael SEWAGE says:

i think i might have a problem. i lambasted larry david for portraying jews as

dismissive, judgmental, angry, antagonistic, loudmouths, ungrateful, vile, amoral, whining, complaining, unethical, paranoid, selfish and uncaring.

did i mention hateful?

did i mention self aggrandizing with no capacity for shame?

did i mention a garbage pail of an intellect who writes books that the worst publishers in the world (the ones who published my earlier 459 "best sellers") wouldn't touch because they are such self serving garbage?

every single adjective i listed above applies to the greatest degree imaginable to one and only one person--the garbage pail of a human i am--michael SEWAGE.

i am the characiture of the jew. i am the penny pincher. the cheap skate who screams at the asian restaurant when im given 4 pieces of dirty chicken and i think i deserve 5. i squeeze a penny so hard, the lincoln memorial turns to rubble.

larry david is talking about me-michael sewage

Posted On: Wednesday, Oct. 28 2009 @ 9:30PM
Anonymous says:

hypocrite? that is a compliment to me, and an insult to other hypocrites. i'm an abomination to humanity. that is what i am.

the reason i am so condemning of the "boys from brooklyn" like larry david, is that they bested me in every arena growing up. there were better students, had more talent and were out to make something of their lives.

i went to fiji to rape underage fijian boys for free and slaughtered a ton of beatiful plants that i did not then and do not now have the foggiest clue what to do with.

medicinal plants? what a fraud i am. i don't have the foggiest clue how to search a plant for medicinal qualities.

but i can hide behind them using them like a fig leaf to cover my hateful soul.

i browbeat ucberkeley to give me a phd (pure hatred and darkness) and wound up being a disc jockey--spinning records of hatred that will never end.

the boys from brookly succeeded. im a failure to what i trained in. i sell hatred. and business is booming.

Posted On: Wednesday, Oct. 28 2009 @ 9:31PM
michael SEWAGE says:

hypocrite? that is a compliment to me, and an insult to other hypocrites. i'm an abomination to humanity. that is what i am.

the reason i am so condemning of the "boys from brooklyn" like larry david, is that they bested me in every arena growing up. there were better students, had more talent and were out to make something of their lives.

i went to fiji to rape underage fijian boys for free and slaughtered a ton of beatiful plants that i did not then and do not now have the foggiest clue what to do with.

medicinal plants? what a fraud i am. i don't have the foggiest clue how to search a plant for medicinal qualities.

but i can hide behind them using them like a fig leaf to cover my hateful soul.

i browbeat ucberkeley to give me a phd (pure hatred and darkness) and wound up being a disc jockey--spinning records of hatred that will never end.

the boys from brookly succeeded. im a failure to what i trained in. i sell hatred. and business is booming.

Posted On: Wednesday, Oct. 28 2009 @ 9:32PM
daphnechyprious says:

And the worst of it is, the skit itself, and especially the comments about it, aren't the least bit funny.

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 29 2009 @ 12:57AM
Germaine Svejk says:

In fact, Larry David also peed on a picture of Mohammad (peace be upon Him), but Islam did not protest as these rabid Christians do. This proves that Islam is a more tolerant religion.

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 29 2009 @ 12:38PM
Level headed says:

Curb is a funny show. I've loved it for years. Seinfeld is hilarious. Larry David is a comedic wonder. Why he would do this, is beyond me. I laughed at him telling Joseph that the Vrigin Mary was attractive. The Jewish/Catholic divide can be really funny. Especially when EVERYONE has a sense of humor about it.
But would the Jewish community laugh if he dressed like Hitler? Or pissed on picture of Holocaust victims?
Catholics are the butt of many jokes, and maybe rightfully so. But maybe he should be really daring. Piss on a picture of Mohommed. I mean, Muslims get upset over an image of Mohommed being in the paper. Imagine if it was pissed on.
Gros some balls Mr. David and stopping picking on the same people as everyone else.

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 29 2009 @ 12:50PM
scott says:

awesome, a bunch of people who've never watched 'curb' being pissed off about something they didn't see... all the while insisting that if he did it to jews they would have Larry David's head. what they don't realize is that much of the man's career has built on ridiculing Jews, but they're mature enough to laugh it off... unlike the rightbloggers, who's own brand of Christ-based fetishism doesn't allow for any humor directed at their beliefs. I'm absoulutely convinced that if we got OBL and bill donahue on the old dating game, they'd go home together and fuck in the dark.

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 29 2009 @ 1:22PM
scott says:

and one more thing.

what's with all these whiny fuckers constantly whining about being persecuted???? in America???

if Jesus came back and saw his so-called followers losing their shit over a single drop of piss, a chocolate sculpture, or whatever else, he'd kick them right in their shit and start Armageddon immediately.

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 29 2009 @ 1:30PM
scott says:

and one more thing.

what's with all these whiny fuckers constantly whining about being persecuted???? in America???

if Jesus came back and saw his so-called followers losing their shit over a single drop of piss, a chocolate sculpture, or whatever else, he'd kick them right in their shit and start Armageddon immediately.

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 29 2009 @ 1:34PM
Kia says:

But would the Jewish community laugh if he dressed like Hitler? Or pissed on picture of Holocaust victims?

Wait a minute. Was there a Catholic Holocaust that nobody told me about?

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 29 2009 @ 6:50PM
pisser says:

Did the Black guy piss on the Jews he shot at the synagogue...or did he "curb his enthusiam?"

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 29 2009 @ 7:22PM
michael SEWAGE says:

no matter how much i scream to momma sewage, and jump and down and cry and wail and try to get my way like the hateful little child i am , nothing will ever erase the following fact:

when a sovereign nation , in this case england, took a look at the product that i have vomited out over 15 years of the very lucrative selling of hatred, meanness , homophobia, misogyny, and xenophobia on the airwaves, they not only stated that i was persona non grata in their country , but that i had achieved that status along with :

murderers, mass and individual
vicious racists
virulent homophobes
terrorists for whom human life means nothing
hatemongers that are so evil that they, like me, are in a class
of their very own--for achieving nobel level levels of hatred,
meanness, and anti-humanity.

i can jump up and down all i want, i may even be able to have my name lifted, but history will always record that this is the summary of my life and my career.

hatred sells. me? Your salesman, Michael Sewage

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 29 2009 @ 10:59PM
michael SEWAGE says:

lazy hardly describes my attributes as a "scientist"
malevolent, evil and murderous are more accurate.

take my garbage truck book "healing children naturally." i call it "naturally, i hurt children." the title itself is conceited, grandiose , inaccurate and potentially harmful. every single idea in this dangerous book was either known to be poppycock at the time i wrote it , or has been completely overturned since.

the book is a completely dangerous joke as a book of "healing". it is however, the best collection , in one place , of every harmful, discredited, dangerous , antiscience bit of medical quackery that you will ever find. as such it is a reference book for medical quackery.

i know the poppycock in it may cause a parent to try to diagnose and treat their child with some sort of garbage or other and that this may lead to the death or damage of the child.


i end every chapter with: if your child should become obtunded, blue, stop breathing or begin seizing, take him to a doctor right away and pray to my god (satan) that the doctor can undo the harm i just committed on your child.

your child will die like my brother jerome, but i got your $3.95 for the book.

seems fair to me, how bout you?

when i went to "republish" this dangerous screed as a way of getting into the pockets of you stupid sewage listeners, i was so lazy (here Mr. Bowman is correct) , i republished it word for word the same as it was 30 years ago, even though there has been a mountain of medical literature overturning every single quack idea in the book.

of course i couldn't face the literature. not only am i a lazy, murderous, joke of a bum scientist, but i would have had to face the fact that everything in my book is garbage and harmful.

all those studies were done by homosexuals trying to convert me anyway (preaching to the converted).

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 29 2009 @ 11:04PM
michael SEWAGE says:

here is a summary of the "aristotelian" approach i use to thinking and debate, and a summary of the scientific method i practiced to earn my phd (purveyor of hatred and darkness) .

if there is a sycophantic caller i agree with (the only kind my call screener lets through) or a scientific study i agree with, i trumpet it loudly, claim i discovered the finding 40 years before the legitimate researchers did, and use it to shamelessly and offensively promote myself and my "genius"

if there is a study (or caller who accidentally gets through) that i disagree with i scream hatred at the top of my sewage lungs and pour foul excrement out of mouth on the caller or the scientists. i further go on to call them homosexuals and perverts (which are one and the same to me) and vomit that they are part of a homosexual mafia out to torment good heteros like me.

the reason i imagine they torment me with their homosexuality is because i struggle 24/7 against nearly impossible to control homosexual urges inside myself. homosexual urges that boiled to the surface when i raped young boys in the fijis (the real reason i went there) for free ( i was too cheap to go to asia and pay a dollar a boy).

that is all it takes to be a scientist, a phd , like me. you can be one too. just fill yourself with prejudice, a closed mind, hatred , homophobia, hatred of blacks , women, gays, and the mentally damaged and ill and spew it out like foul diarrrhea from your mouth and you will be a phd just like me.

it helps if you have a brain damaged brother you can use for your own gain, a hatefilled father to emulate, and an abused mother as a stand in for all the women of the world you resent and hate (you also hate them because they are not men, the real sex you lust after)

see how easy it is to be a big phd (pure hatred and demonism) like michael SEWAGE?

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 29 2009 @ 11:14PM
michael SEWAGE says:

i republish books that are over 20 years old with ideas that have been thoroughly discredited.

the first one, about using faith healing on a child, could result in the death of a child due to quack, completely overturned tripe homeopathic "treatments" that could themselves kill the child or kill the child through mis diagnosis, or delay in diagnosis and proper treatment.

sorry if i kill your child, but i needed your sheckels.

im a sucker for every hobo quack vitamin thinker out there. every study has either shown them ineffective or harmful, but that's because the authors are homosexuals out to torture me.

. i republish a book on dementia with an idea (the aluminum hypothesis) that has been thoroughly discredited, all the while claiming that i cured alzheimer's all by myself 40 years ago.

i republish them EXACTLY AS THEY APPEARED, WORD FOR WORD, WHEN FIRST PUBLISHED 30 YEARS AGO AND WITHOUT A SINGLE UPDATE, REVIEW OF CURRENT LITERATURE ETC.

im not lazy, im sewage

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 29 2009 @ 11:15PM
michael SEWAGE says:

my meanness and hatred stems from the fact that i was rejected from working in the field i "trained" for.

as ive stated before, i never really earned or trained for my degree. i went to fiji to rape underage young men. it was a place where i did not have to pay $1 per boy, like in cuba and asia. and im the meannest cheapskate you'll ever meet. i squeeze a penny so hard, the lincoln memorial lies in rubble when im done.

i was a fraud as a scientist. just a bunch of dead plants i slaughtered to cover my rape of the young boys, and not a single clue what to do with them. i did not then and do not now have the foggiest idea how to look for medicinal chemicals within these plants.

i used these plants like a fig leaf to cover my moral nakedness and shame.

i was known as a fraud of a scientist as well as the most obnoxious person who had ever been at uc berkeley. there wasn't a prayer that anyone would ever hire me.

my career, my phd are hatred. business is booming.

Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 29 2009 @ 11:17PM
anonymous_wierdo says:

I want to make a few points here:

1. Larry David didn't actually piss on a picture of Jesus. The episode just made it appear as if he did. (Incidentally, the episode of the show was complained about by some fans for being more surrealist than usual). Seriously, do people think in the episode where a dog bit his penis that that actually happened too? It's not a documentary, you know.

2. Larry David had Mr. Pitt dress up as Hitler in an episode of Seinfeld. He also starred in the Producers in Season 4, where they put on a play "Springtime for Hitler."

3. Since David's humor is all about going places where you shouldn't go, I have no doubt if he could come up with a scenario where he thought whatever offensive thing people are mentioning (oh, he'd do this but never do that) would be funny he would do it.

4. Larry David has in fact mocked Muslim's before. I remember the episode where he tried to set his blind friend up with a kind Muslim woman he met who was wearing a Burka. That didn't work out so well.

5. Jesus is a Muslim Profit, so Muslim's in general are not AOK with his image being desecrated (or existing at all for many of them, actually). Sigh... I don't know how people miss this, in Islam Jesus is an important one of God's prophets, just not as important as Mohammed.

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 30 2009 @ 1:21AM
scott says:

"But would the Jewish community laugh if he dressed like Hitler? Or pissed on picture of Holocaust victims?

why don't you leave the Jewish community out of this?

why don't you ask yourself why america's number one religion gets their panties in a bunch everytime someone pokes fun at it's followers?

bunch of insecure babies (read: c*nts) if you ask me.

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 30 2009 @ 1:47AM
levelheaded says:

"why don't you ask yourself why america's number one religion gets their panties in a bunch everytime someone pokes fun at it's followers?

bunch of insecure babies (read: c*nts) if you ask me"


Gee....Just this week, the Ronan Tynan incident?

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 30 2009 @ 10:00AM
Pam says:

I'll bet HBO would be too afraid to defend Larry David if he pissed on the Koran. The Muslims would declare a fatwah on his life!
Pissing on Christ doesn't take any guts. Larry David is too big of a coward to insult Muhammad or Islam. That would be the real test of courage.

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 30 2009 @ 1:18PM
Poerba says:

Pam et al, you missed the point of the joke or (more likely) didn't see the clip. When's the last time someone tried to auction a piece of toast on eBay because it had Muhammad's face on it?

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 30 2009 @ 1:54PM
scott says:

"Gee....Just this week, the Ronan Tynan incident?"

that didnt play down here in florida (i had to google it myself). as a matter of fact, im not sure many people here know/care who he is...

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 30 2009 @ 2:41PM
scott says:

oooh, look what else i found.

http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/10/30/1008849/forgiving-ronan-tynan

nice. i doubt we'll see the same level of forgiveness from the rightbloggers re: larry david.

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 30 2009 @ 2:43PM
Levelheaded says:

You might see the same level of forgiveness if Larry David apologized like Ronan Tynan did. Maybe it didnt "play" down in florida, but that doesnt make it unnoteworthy.

Im sorry for the inconvience you had to suffer by googling it yourself. Next time you need fact Ill gladly spoon feed them to you.

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 30 2009 @ 3:27PM
scott says:

"Next time you need fact Ill gladly spoon feed them to you."

ha... hahaha


lol

seriously... great, jolly good.

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS256725+29-Oct-2009+PRN20091029


seriously though, i always thought that Christians were taught to forgive regardless of whether or not an apology was made... at least thats what they taught me in sunday school...

Posted On: Friday, Oct. 30 2009 @ 5:44PM
bob0j says:

Excuse me folks!!!
WHAT is "so special" about catholics??
Seems as everytime one opens his or her mouth, it appears that THEY are the only ones who have religion.
Bill O'Reilly continues to use his catholosim to act as if he is a personal representative of the pope, making comments like"it's OK for others to believe in their personal religion, and as a catholic I find it nice that someone has a belief. We catholics are very felxible that even though these folks are not of a true faith, at least they try."
What a crock!!!! In a comedic sense why can't a little fun be made of Jesus??? Have any of you ever watched "South Park", the little cartoon show late at night in which jesus has been dpicted as a drug-user, womanizer, buffoon, political radical etc?????
You need, folks,to get a life and beat you chest about something more important than a tv show.

Posted On: Sunday, Nov. 1 2009 @ 8:51AM
Franki says:

Although I'm a huge Larry David fan, I didn't care for that particular episode. A Christian could mock his own faith like that and that's fine, or Larry David can mock his own Jewish faith, like in the episode where he plays Wagner, but when it's one religion mocking another religion, I think that's when it crosses the line. It's like how black people can say the "N" word but white people can't. His poking a little bit of fun at his wife's Christianity in the "Jesus, Mary & Larry" episode was hilarious - that's how it should be done. However, I think his "Piss Christ" thing was predictable and unnecessarily offensive & incendiary. It's not really his style, why go there? Loved the bare midriff though, and I LOVE the recent episodes with the banter between Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld.

Posted On: Friday, Nov. 6 2009 @ 3:53PM
Gleek says:

Why are liberals so angry? You people are the angriest folks in the world! Too bad you hate guns, ya'll might be dangerous.

Posted On: Friday, Nov. 6 2009 @ 4:25PM

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