Someone pointed me in the direction of a particularly vile anti-athiesm video on YouTube yesterday and the instant reaction was to balk at the appaling ignorance of the woman in the video. I'm not going to post the link because I'm unconvinced at the latter claims it was made by a satirical comedy group, and also because even if it is satire, its still pretty bad form to use the Japanese disaster as a rod to poke fun at Christians.
Anyway, video goes as such, Christian woman claims to have proof that him upstairs (for the record, I am an athiest) is listening as he has answered her prayers given at the beginning of Lent. Her prayers, she divulges, were that she hoped that athiests would be 'shook to their core' into becoming beleivers. It is worth noting (just to build up a better picture) this woman whispers the word athiest like athiesm is akin to heroin addiction and resembles a putty-faced moomin.
Her prayers have been answered she claps, and athiests will be enlightened by the 'power of god'. Gleefully chiming that if the earthquake and tsunami were the result of a few days of solid prayer, what could be next for those terrible athiests?
The video has since been removed from YouTube but a bit of hunting and you'll find it. The comments (as I read them last night when the video was available) are fairly telling, and with around a 99.9% swing of commenters blasting the woman in a swathe of insults. There are calls of blasphemy from different Christian sects, people wishing death (and worse) upon her, and quite a large amount of people advising psychological evaluation.
This pattern of comments was repeated after my friend on Facebook posted the video and then one at the bottom;
"chill out, its an elaborate satire on religious nutjobs, check out her other videos"
That comment could be right. It could be satire. But if you can't tell its satire, and its still offensive, is it really satire at all?
Anyway, video goes as such, Christian woman claims to have proof that him upstairs (for the record, I am an athiest) is listening as he has answered her prayers given at the beginning of Lent. Her prayers, she divulges, were that she hoped that athiests would be 'shook to their core' into becoming beleivers. It is worth noting (just to build up a better picture) this woman whispers the word athiest like athiesm is akin to heroin addiction and resembles a putty-faced moomin.
Her prayers have been answered she claps, and athiests will be enlightened by the 'power of god'. Gleefully chiming that if the earthquake and tsunami were the result of a few days of solid prayer, what could be next for those terrible athiests?
The video has since been removed from YouTube but a bit of hunting and you'll find it. The comments (as I read them last night when the video was available) are fairly telling, and with around a 99.9% swing of commenters blasting the woman in a swathe of insults. There are calls of blasphemy from different Christian sects, people wishing death (and worse) upon her, and quite a large amount of people advising psychological evaluation.
This pattern of comments was repeated after my friend on Facebook posted the video and then one at the bottom;
"chill out, its an elaborate satire on religious nutjobs, check out her other videos"
That comment could be right. It could be satire. But if you can't tell its satire, and its still offensive, is it really satire at all?
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