Something to look forward to
Stone, who was raised Jewish, says he’s not religious. Parker says he considers himself religious, but it would take him a long time to explain it. Both say they believe in God.“I believe there’s something going on that we don’t know,” Parker says. “That’s as far as I can go.”
“Recently, atheists and people who hate religion have, like, really glommed on to our show because we make fun of a lot of religions,” Stone notes. “But neither one of us is anti-religious at all. I mean, I’m fascinated by religion.”
“All the religions are superfunny to me,” Parker adds. “The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and why would he have to die? It’s just bad writing, really. And it’s really terrible in about the second act.”
But Parker says atheism is more ludicrous to him than anything else.
“Out of all the ridiculous religion stories — which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous — the silliest one I’ve ever heard is, ‘Yeah, there’s this big, giant universe and it’s expanding and it’s all going to collapse on itself and we’re all just here, just ‘cuz. Just ‘cuz. That to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever,” he says. “So I think we have a big atheism show coming.”
Posted on September 24th, 2006 by pwyll
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The Christian mythos — I’m a devout Catholic, so don’t take this as a denigration — makes much more sense if one avoids the notion that God had to sacrifice His Only Son for the redemption of Mankind. Given his position as Chiref Executive of The Universe, He doesn’t / didn’t / never will “have to” do any particular thing. He chose to do it that way. Why? Good question. I plan to ask Him, if I get the chance.
Francis, thank you for your comment. I reply here.
[...] Francis Poretto, the author of the very fine Eternity Road blog wrote in reply to a recent post: The Christian mythos — I’m a devout Catholic, so don’t take this as a denigration — makes much more sense if one avoids the notion that God had to sacrifice His Only Son for the redemption of Mankind. Given his position as Chiref Executive of The Universe, He doesn’t / didn’t / never will “have to” do any particular thing. He chose to do it that way. Why? Good question. I plan to ask Him, if I get the chance. [...]
I must respectfully disagree with Mr. Porretto.
The Christian mythos (I, too, am a devout Catholic) only makes sense if you believe in the Trinity. That is, that God became man, and dwelt among us. There was no blood “sacrifice” to appease a vengeful and angry God. The sacrifice was rather the free choice by the second Person of the Trinity to submit to death. An inevitable end set in motion by setting the perfect example: a life of total service and firm, but nonviolent, resistance to the evils of that time.
“This is my commandment: Love one another as I have loved you. Greater love than this no one has, that one should lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”