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Chaser's poo-stain Jesus 'a disgusting parody'
by Phil Han via fish - ninemsn Wednesday, Oct 31 2007, 9:36am
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['Show me your God and I will expose your psychopathology.' More power to the irreverent Chasers crew for exposing the inanity and absolute imbecility of ALL RELIGION. What a difference a 'slave' makes!

We lay down an open challenge to any religious leader to verify the existence of their man-made God and to prove the validity of their faith and the ‘divine’ origins of their culturally produced Scriptural text, you bunch of vacuum-headed, demented, idiot, slaves!

Here’s a little philosophical challenge for the slave masters: The One True 'God' is infinite; Infinity is ALL-INCLUSIVE therefore God is also represented buy shit skids in toilet bowls! Care to challenge self-evident TRUTH, you lying, sicko, aberrant HYPOCRITES? Ed.]

The irreverent Oz Chasers

Religious leaders have branded the pranksters from The Chaser as "adolescent" and "gross" for depicting Jesus Christ as a toilet-bowl faeces stain.

The skit, from Wednesday's episode, depicted a fictional scenario where an image of Jesus had prompted crowds of pilgrims to worship at a dirty public toilet bowl in a park. The image appears to be made from human faeces, splattered against the bowl.

Religious groups have called it an "assault" on Jesus.

The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Peter Jensen, said the ABC program "descended into the worst depths of adolescent humour" and called it "disgusting".

"It was gross and outrageous, a distressing and disrespectful parody of Christian people's faith commitment to Jesus Christ," Archbishop Jensen said.

But the show's executive producer, Julian Morrow, said through a spokesman that "the holy skid mark was provided by Jesus Christ".

Christian Democrats president Reverend Fred Nile called the skit an "outrage", and added that everyone's lives at the ABC would be at risk if Mohammed's head had been splattered on the bowl.

"ABC management should accept the blame for this," Rev Nile said. "A similar offence directed at Mohammad, even in this country, could endanger the lives of anyone working at the ABC."

The episode also upset a senior minister from St Andrew's Cathedral, who said it was an attack on those who worship Jesus.

"It's quite offensive that people would mock those that value Jesus as their lord and saviour," senior minister Chris Moroney said. "The Chaser is a joke and it's not worth our time."

In the Chaser episode, crowds of people are seen lining up to enter the toilet block with souvenir vendors outside selling merchandise.

T-shirts for sale read, "I sat on Christ's throne" and "Holy Shit Happens".

An ABC spokesman said the show received 60 complaints.


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