And as for the moral of the story of your cat? I’d say it speaks volumes as to your benevolence and patience. Only a truly charitable person in the Christian sense of the word (not just tolerance, as it’s been twisted into these days) could put up with and love a cat like that. You’re a better person than me!

Thanks for reading, commenting, and the reco too!

Take Care, mailloux

If Obama holds a beer summit and personally lobbies for the Olympics to come to Chicago, why not comment on the latest episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm? But, as you well point out, the target is Christianity . . . the safe target. So, there will be no outcry . . . only self important chuckles and condescension.

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Take Care, mailloux

He’d be murdered in the street and HBO HQ would be firebombed.

“David would not urinate on a picture of Obama”.

for a darn good reason. As you imply in your comment, we are all wretches. No one escapes that designation; it’s a natural consequence of our fallen natures and separation from God. Thankfully, as the hymn says so well, there is salvation from that wretched state and it is only by, with, from, and in God.

Urinating on a portrait of the Divine is not a recommended way to open one’s heart and soul to grace . . . hopefully, Larry David will one day learn this.

Thanks for visiting my diary, leaving a comment, and the reco too.

Take Care, mailloux

Extremely well said! And, as you also stated, the connection of American greatness to reliance on God and recognition of His Lordship cannot be swept under the carpet.

Thanks for a great and exceedingly Christian comment!

Take Care, mailloux

I can forgive them but I will not condone or passively allow these things to happen.

Remember, the USSR didn’t eradicate religion, either. It was underground and practiced at great peril but it was not completely stamped out.

Christianity has always been the favorite target of progressives the world over. Attacking the Church (all Christians) is not new to our time, but like any era, its delivery is characteristic of the time period. Mass communication coupled with the entertainment industry make the attacks more outlandish, yet at the same time less so in the sense that it’s packaged as “entertainment”. It’s the old, “It’s just a joke,” excuse. This is fairly dangerous, especially in an age where many people get their “news” from the likes of Colbert, a comedian. They are more prone to inflating the old dictum, “there’s some truth in comedy,” into, “there’s nothing but truth in comedy.”

Christ though gave us both a warning this would happen (Blessed are those persecuted for his name) and the eventual outcome (not even the gates of hell shall prevail against the Church). Living through it is frustrating of course and I think it right to shine the light of day upon folks like Larry David who is a seen enemy of the Church. And, based on theology, he’s probably got some unseen help too . . . that of the fallen angels. Christianity really does have some serious foes.

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Take Care, mailloux

and has been called a “self-hating Jew” by Michael Savage.

See this essay:

http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/10/28/1008790/curb-your-jesus-humor

An excerpt:

“…does David have Jesus issues? Probably — there’s this episode, and the earlier one where he ate the Baby Jesus cookie. But that’s nothing compared to the way Mel Gibson roughed up Jesus in “The Passion of the Christ” …

P.S. The L.A. Jewish Journal gave the episode a thumbs up.”

“Like the carp of the religious game.” Very well put!

The hate speech idea is also an interesting one. Political correctness tries to make the case that it is simply in favor of tolerance. This of course is a lie. They embrace hatred with gusto . . . they just want to dictate who and what are the acceptable targets.

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Take Care, mailloux

for the comedy of Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” It is like the end result of the digestive process and it is falls below the dignity of man (hence, “curb your dog”).

Thanks for visiting my diary, commenting, and the reco too.

Take Care, mailloux

both the reco and shout out on twitter.

Thanks also for your too kind comments.

In my opinion, underlying a lot of conservatism is a recognition of our dependence on God and his Lordship over all creation. I think Satan agrees with me on this . . . if you separate man from God, it is a fertile field for the progressives and their promise of a godless, government provided utopia. This fight, therefore, is one worth jumping into.

Take Care, mailloux

I used to occasionally watch Bill Maher as a portal to the lunatic left, but after he came out against vaccines in favor of “organic” food, I think I’m done with even him. His cute little brand of atheism is usually more pathetic than harmful, and the only people who listen to him are other moron atheists anyway, but by telling people not to get the polio vaccine he’s endangering lives, all in the service of putting Man (Maher himself) over God’s creation (here: polio). No more, I’m so disgusted by the man I can’t even look at him anymore.

I’ve never watched Curbing Your Enthusiasm, but reading about it certainly makes it sound like vile filth, and I really see no reason why I should keep my HBO subscription. So I’m with you, Read Chesterton, moving to an all Netflix diet.

what’s considered entertainment. In my own family (I have 4 kids, age 8 and younger), we have a small TV able to pick up the new digital signals. It’s not connected to cable (no cable anyway where I live in the country) and it’s not connected to satellite. In fact, it’s only on when there’s a tornado watch or warning. And, for presidential debates every 4 years.

Any other media in our home is tightly controlled by my wife and me. We have another, older TV hooked up to a VCR. It can’t pick up the digital signal so it’s useless for anything else other than a video tape or a DVD. We rely on Netflix and our local library . . . other than a little video time before bed, the kids entertain themselves the old fashioned way . . . they play and use their imaginations!

The benefits of this approach are legion, but as you point out, we don’t financially support the wholesale ridiculing of Christianity and we get to better control the images and messages that come into our home. It makes the job of parenting that much easier.

Thanks for reading and your kind words!

Take Care, mailloux

I appreciate the honest commentary and the opposing viewpoint.

There are indeed religious hoaxes that do make their appearance now and again. However, there is also a massive body of the miraculous that has occurred from the time of Christ up until the present day. Separating out the miracles from the hoaxes and the purely natural is a daunting and difficult task. But, it is done using science, medicine, and reason.

For the miraculous, as a Catholic, I can cite the very process for canonization. It must involve two confirmed miracles, which the Church itself will try to debunk with great vigor. Only with investigation, discernment, and prayer will the Church finally declare something as supernatural in nature. The miraculous has occurred and still does in other ways as well. I would refer you to books by Joan Carroll Cruz who has compiled the events, histories, and investigations of incorruptible saints (their bodies don’t decompose and often emit a perfumed scent) and Eucharistic Miracles.

Overall, then, the miraculous is not strictly the realm of hoaxes and hysterics. The genuine article exists and people revere them because they show the hand of God and the power of prayer. The miraculous is more than just an unusual pattern on a slice of breakfast toast that kinda looks like Christ.

Larry David’s urine spackled Christ is first and foremost an affront to Christianity in the sense of insulting God (a violation of the first commandment). Urine is a waste product and the act of urinating on something is typically seen as an insult. I know the script had him doing it accidentally, but his character knew what happened and left it there nonetheless. So the very premise (how the liquid got there in the first place . . . the urine) of the subsequent joke (the two woman kneeling in prayer before the image of Christ) cannot really be construed as anything less than a vulgar profanity (for religious people, that is).

The subsequent joke (the two woman kneeling in prayer before the image of Christ) is, in my opinion, a slam particularly on Catholics. As I mentioned earlier in my response to you, the miraculous is no small element of Catholicism.

If Larry David truly meant only to poke fun at those who find an image of Jesus on their freshly toasted piece of Wonder Bread, then he sure picked an odd way to communicate his humor. His skit is not very humorous to this particular Catholic, who can sometimes be found kneeling during the week before a tabernacle (a box in a Catholic Church that contains the consecrated host . . . unleavened wheat bread in appearance, but Christ himself in reality). When I kneel in worship, it isn’t before a wafer of bread, it’s before the omnipotent King of Kings, Jesus Christ. To comedian Larry David, this would probably seem absurd and worthy of ridicule . . . fine and dandy; it’s a free country. He is free to poke fun at it, but I am free to poke back.

GremlinJones, I want to again thank you for sharing your perspective on this. There’s nothing wrong with a challenge and a friendly suggestion that I overreacted. I still, however, stand by my post.

Take Care, mailloux

Also, not to be argumentative, but we’re all waiting for some anti-atheist, anti-radical enviro nut, or anti-PC humor in general to surface in the MSM.

I am willing to go as far as to say that the liberal media sees itself much as you describe Larry David here… as well intentioned and intellectual – despite all evidence to the contrary.