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Micah Ortega


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Gender: Male
Status: Married
Age: 33
Sign: Gemini

City: Denver
State: Colorado
Country: US
Signup Date: 10/22/2005

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Sunday, February 11, 2007 

Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
I read this off of a Netflix description,

"Comedienne Sarah Silverman's smashing and eclectic one-woman show, Jesus Is Magic, is translated for the big screen in this offbeat film. Part concert, part monologue, with a dash of MTV thrown into the mix, Jesus Is Magic shows Silverman in fine form, working blue from the first minute, eager to jump into shark-infested comedy waters and fearless beyond belief about everything from dead grandmothers to religion."

It's strange, in the double standard sort of way, that I should not be offended or at the very least, that I am considered closed minded because of my offense to her religious material. To me, it's much like saying "So and so is fearless and hilarious, making light of issues that have bogged us down for years, like racism and rape. Finally, nothing is sacred!! Let's hope next year her routine on child molestation can only be so funny!"

I suppose from reading this that I am also to assume that christians are to be considered the sharks that infest the comedy waters. Bite Bite.
Joe

 
excellent point. if Christians don't want to be the world's conscience, we will find the job vacancy in the "help wanted" section until Jesus returns. 
 
Posted by Joe on Monday, February 12, 2007 - 5:21 AM
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JDiE!

 
she already makes jokes about child molestation.  Sarah is just picking up where comedians like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy left off.  I am sure at some point Sarah will sell her soul to Disney just like Eddie did.  It's all about Disney man.  I think the netflix description is a bit wrong.  The only folks that should be offended are "little people"  and any of her own family members.  It's tough to make me laugh these days and Sarah Silverman get me to the point of tears.  I even wet myself a bit in the theatre.
 
Posted by JDiE! on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 5:27 PM
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Micah!
Micah Ortega

 
I guess the point wasn't to be the worlds conscience, although christians are called "the salt of the earth", salt being a natural preservative. I understand that one aspect of comedy, overused as it may be, is shock value. We reached the point were nothing was sacred and so we began to make things previously not considered sacred, sacred. I give you political correctness.  Now that most of us have a good sense of the new sacred values this serves as a spring board for comedians to jump off of. "Finally something that is sacred again that we can mock." It's funny that the last great comedians mentioned of this type were Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor only because their comedic high point ended as all that was considered sacred was used up by their routines. In a sense they helped usher in the period of nothing sacred which caused that type of comedy to go into hibernation until about the start of South Park, (a show that I still think is brilliant).

The point I was trying to make is that there is, in almost all celebrated pop culture, an underlying antichrist agenda. It's one of those things that is so common it's almost unseen. Like the laugh track of sitcoms. The laugh track is there to imply a joke almost in a social training sort of way. "This is what your should laugh at because it's "funny". " It's that subtlety that is disturbing to me. Using the nuances of language and the power of humor to train people on how to feel about Christ. I have nothing personal against Sarah Silverman. What I do have harsh feelings toward is this underlying force that uses vehicles like Sarah Silverman as a means to an end.
 
Posted by Micah! on Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 6:16 AM
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