Racism - Discrimination -etc -etc

[Webdude]

Some people just cant take a joke. So I thought to myself, can I take such jokes? Well, I like hearing jokes about white people (I am white). I laugh at jokes about being American. I can even take jokes about my religion, and personally I found this site quite hilarious...

http://www.animaldefense.org/landover.html

Get saved and get a free PS-2...LOL

[Blank Verse]

ROTFLMAO

I could really go for a PS2. I could thank Christ for allowing me to play Vice City whenever I want.

[tandoc]

i wanna sell my ps2.. :cry2:

[conkermaniac]

Originally posted by Webdude
I can even take jokes about my religion, and personally I found this site quite hilarious...

http://www.animaldefense.org/landover.html
Interesting...you're the first Christian I've met that actually finds Landover Baptist funny. :biggrin2:

[Epgs]

I find it very amusing.

[darkcurves]

I dont find it amusing.

[LeX]

Originally posted by tandoc
i wanna sell my ps2.. :cry2: Do you ship overseas?

[notnamed]

Originally posted by darkcurves
I dont find it amusing.

[Blank Verse]

You guys don't find it funny because you don't have a sense of humour. I'll bet Jesus would fall over backwards laughing about this.

[Webdude]

I do find it very amusing. I am able to laugh at myself and my practices, and think others should quit taking so many things so seriously and take them for what they are...simply humour.

[darkcurves]

Originally posted by Webdude
I do find it very amusing. I am able to laugh at myself and my practices, and think others should quit taking so many things so seriously and take them for what they are...simply humour.

Me too but not at this level.

[notnamed]

There's a line between humor and ridicule and IMO this crosses it. I love 'how many [denomination] does it take to screw in a lightbulb' and other self-degrading jokes Pastors tell, and stuff like this quote:
"Holy Mother Crushes Sacred Infant" -- In a Catholic newspaper, referring to a basketball game between two Catholic High Schools.

[Blank Verse]

How exactly is this joke worse than those ones?

[Canuckkev]

I want some of thos bumper stickers! The "Unsaved" is good, but better is "Honk if you're unsaved!".

[cowax]

lol that website is great

[conkermaniac]

Originally posted by notnamed
There's a line between humor and ridicule and IMO this crosses it. To tell you the truth, Landover Baptist is ridiculing Christians, and furthermore, it is their intent to mock and exaggerate the practices of Christians. I probably wouldn't find it very funny either if I were a Christian, but I definitely admire Webdude's ability to laugh at himself.

[notnamed]

I know what the site is doing...I'm saying I don't find it humorous because it's ridiculing what I believe.

Blank, the difference is how far it goes, and the intent. The intent of lightbulb and similar jokes is not to so much put down a group of people as poke fun at them, which I'm ok with.

[Canuckkev]

The thing is, it's only offensive if you find it offensive. If the "fun" it pokes is stupid, and not based on anything, then hardly anyone would be offended. But when you see the point of the arguments and the reason behind, you take offense because it hits a nerve...ie, priests + sodomy. It's offensive because it happens...

[Webdude]

Q) How does a blonde turn on the light after sex?
A) She opens the car door.

Q) What does a blonde say after sex?
A) Are all you guys on the same team.

I bet you find such jokes funny, dont you? I do, and many blondes take offense to such jokes. Which is why I wony be a hypocrit and take a joke about my religion serious.

And I see the comments coming....why would a Christion see such jokes as funny. I am Christian, human, and Male....not a religious freakazoid..

[darkcurves]

Originally posted by Canuckkev
The thing is, it's only offensive if you find it offensive. If the "fun" it pokes is stupid, and not based on anything, then hardly anyone would be offended. But when you see the point of the arguments and the reason behind, you take offense because it hits a nerve...ie, priests + sodomy. It's offensive because it happens...

I dont mind making jokes of priests or the church but i hate it when it is done directly to God and Jesus.

[TRUNKS]

site-good fun :chinese2: :ditsy2:

[Blank Verse]

Originally posted by notnamed
I know what the site is doing...I'm saying I don't find it humorous because it's ridiculing what I believe.

Blank, the difference is how far it goes, and the intent. The intent of lightbulb and similar jokes is not to so much put down a group of people as poke fun at them, which I'm ok with.

But this pretty much does the same thing. It pokes some fun at Christians, but it doesn't attack their beliefs.

[Kaliber]

I found one of their shirts for sale halarious.

"Visit your local pedophile, go to church"

[Webdude]

Originally posted by Kaliber
I found one of their shirts for sale halarious.

"Visit your local pedophile, go to church"

Thats "Catholic Church". The sad part is that it was true, and probably still is in some places..

[Epgs]

Yeah, I find if you can't laugh at yourself then you are too stressed and very bland.

[iFliPcEss]

joke is good if it can make you laugh but if it hurt someone feeling.. or it is kinda offending then it wasn't good at all.. especially.. we can joke about anything or everything but why used the name of GOD into some ridiculous joke rite?

[Blank Verse]

Technically, it's the name of Jesus :p