Tue, 07 Feb 2006 01:08:00
In which I illustrate the difference between civilized faithful and uncivilized rabble
The following is the first episode of Morel Orel, a claymation cartoon that airs on Cartoon network's [adult swim]. Based on the life of a fundamentalist Christian family, it is, to say the least, not flattering to Christians. The website describes Morel as follows:
Morel is an eleven-year-old boy who loves church. His unbridled enthusiasm for piousness and his misinterpretation of religious morals often lead to disasterous results, including self-mutilation and crack addiction. No matter how much trouble he gets into, his reverence always keeps him cheery.
Please note; this cartoon airs on television, where anyone can just tune in and be oh-so-offended. From one point of view, this is simply comedy-as-social-commentary. From another perspective, it is nothing short of blasphemy. As far as I know, there have been no fires, kidnappings, threats of beheadings or any actual beheadings to date by any Christians.
Warning: you need Flash, 12 minutes, some good bandwidth and a sense of humor.
*UPDATE*
I was thinking...what's the Christian equivalent to a fatwa? Do they put you in the church bulletin saying you're banned from the potluck supper or what? Do I lose golf privileges and become a pool-only member? Sweet Mother Mary, I hope not...my system can't handle curly fries.
Posted by JimK at 01:08 AM on February 07, 2006
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#2 Posted by chrisbg99 
on 02/07 at 03:49 AM -
On another note, I’d like to see them have some balls and maybe make an episode that makes fun of Islam just to see what’d happen.
#3 Posted by Thrill on 02/07 at 09:49 PM -
There really isn’t a Christian equivalent to a fatwah. People get excommunicated but that’s not remotely the same. The version of the jihad is the crusade, but we outgrew those about 600 years ago (they didn’t)
Moral Orel is funny, but I don’t think we need another show mocking Christians. You have to admit, we’re a soft target. Real genius is when Matt Stone and Trey Parker get the Muslims in Team America and South Park. Congratulations to them for that and shame on the news networks for not having the stones to show the “controversial cartoons”.
#4 Posted by Buzzion on 02/08 at 12:53 AM -
Matt and Trey also don’t pull punches on Catholics and Christians. Although I’m kind of pissed about Comedy Central caving into that Catholic group about this past season’s episode with the statue of the virgin mary bleeding out her ass.
Apparently they’ll never re-air that episode and it might not get put on the dvd releases.
#5 Posted by JimK on 02/08 at 03:26 AM -
The thing about South Park that a lot of people miss is they are respectful to the deities they feature. It’s the people in each religion that they skewer.
Thrill: DAMMIT. I wanna be Christian-wa’d.
#6 Posted by Drumwaster on 02/08 at 03:55 AM -
Thrill: DAMMIT. I wanna be Christian-wa’d.
Well, I could call some people who could call some people…
#7 Posted by Thrill on 02/08 at 12:41 PM -
Hey, I’m just saying, Christianity is a soft target. They may boycott your theme park or write angry letters, but they typically don’t set your car on fire, drive you into hiding for the rest of your life with a fatwah, or send their nephews to blow themselves up at the mall. I’ve just never been especially impressed with the testicular fortitude of people who take those shots while quietly abstaining from mocking Islam which is an even richer target yet not as forgiving. Or forgiving at all. No Danish newspaper, perhaps no Western newspaper, will ever post editorial cartoons that jab at Islam because of fear. That’s frightening.
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Yeah I’ve seen the first 3 episodes (they had a Christmas episode on last year but man that sucked) and so far they’ve all been very funny despite some eye rolling stuff. Even my rather religious suitemate found it pretty funny, if not horribly wrong. I’m agnostic so it didn’t really matter to me. But that first episode with the zombies and people being upset with them being indecent as opposed to being brain-eating zombies was just fantastic. Though I can’t imagine how the Necronomicon could have ever found it’s way into a small town library. And I may be wrong but was it ironic that Farenheit 451 was up for burning? Finally the revealing of the long lost commandments may be my favorite running gag if they continue with them.
But yeah I’ll probably expect boycotts and nasty letters from any Christian groups that watch for this kind of stuff but I’d be shocked to see someone get killed or even a leafpile burning over this cartoon.