jesus jokes are never a good idea
did you watch last week’s curb your enthusiasm? if not, you might want to catch it on hbo in demand or find a clip somewhere online (although hbo is very diligent about finding them and taking them down). in the bare midriff eposide, larry david accidently splatter his urine on a picture of jesus in his assistant’s home bathroom. rather than clean it up, he leaves it. the assistant and her mother see it and interpret it as jesus crying . you can imagine that some people are having a problem with the scenes. said deal hudson, author and publisher of insidecatholic.com, “Why is it that people are allowed to publicly show that level of disrespect for Christian symbols? If the same thing was done to a symbol of any other religions — Jewish or Muslim — there’d be a huge outcry. It’s simply not a level playing field.” so far the show has not budged and instead said “Larry David makes fun of everyone, most especially himself. The humor is always playful and certainly never malicious.”
there was no public outcry a couple of weeks ago when in another episode, david’s character targeted wheelchair bound women to date in order to make others think better of him. call it parody, call it satire but the show has always been bordering on offensive. if you ask me, the real problem with this eposide is that he left the bathroom without cleaning the urine. that’s just gross.
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Check out this hilarious take on it from the Jewish Internet Defense Force (JIDF):
Jesus and Urinating Don’t Mix: Christians Curb Their Enthusiasm for Larry David
http://www.thejidf.org/2009/10/christians-curb-their-enthusiasm-for.html