Crowley and Aziraphale kinda like this place called Earth.
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Regular readers know I’m a fan of the absurd, and nothing was more absurd this past week than the petition to cancel the show Good Omens, based on the book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
Only a demon with faith could keep that Bentley going.
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I mean, seriously, the show is freakin’ hilarious. But since it portrays an angel and a demon who’ve been friends for about 6,000 years trying to stop the apocalypse from happening at the hands of the Four Horsemen (who are bikers) directed by the Anti-Christ, an 11-year-old who was swapped out for a couple’s real child and only just found out he’s the Anti-Christ and he kind of likes the planet, as do the angel and demon, and God is a woman (voiced by Frances McDormand) … well, that’s just too much for Return to Order, a Christian group that previously has boycotted the NFL for not paying appropriate respect for the anthem. Last year they petitioned to make the owner of Sweet Jesus Ice Cream change its “blasphemous” name and advertising.
The Church Lady has nothing on these people.
Plus there’s all that paperwork.
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The group, though, apparently didn’t talk to anyone who watched Good Omens, or who knew what streaming service it was on. So it was a little embarrassing for them when they petitioned Netflix to cancel that horrible, blasphemous show (which happens to be a limited-run series that’s been out completely since May 31) that normalizes Satanism (it doesn’t) on Amazon Prime. Last I checked, that wasn’t Netflix.
Hilarity ensued. Christians who have a sense of humor, though, have been defending it, as have people (me me me) who love that so many Queen songs are featured.
When the writer and show-runner finds a petition to cancel the show to be funny, it’s funny.
Screenshot from Neil Gaiman’s Twitter page.
Note to future petitioners: Make sure you know what you’re talking about before you embarrass yourselves. Or don’t. We could use the laugh.
Screenshot from Neil Gaiman’s Twitter page.
Perhaps this hubbub was just a way for Amazon Prime to get more subscribers … or maybe God has a devilish sense of humor.
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Yeah, I’m sure Return to Order is making our reservations for hell right now. Meanwhile, I’ve watched Good Omens twice so far, and just started reading the book, subtitled The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch.
I’ll need a private suite, please. Some chocolate would be nice, too.
Wonder if these guys have heard of Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore. Somehow I don’t think they’d like it. Hell, I know they wouldn’t because I loved it when I read it several years back. Maybe if a movie is ever made of it they’ll suddenly discover it. It’s good reading.
As are we all, Crowley. And hey, he finally got to be a ginger!
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Serenity is a fuzzy belly 
I have logical problems with the notion of Hell. It makes no sense that a “Loving and Forgiving God” would get off on torturing souls for all eternity. But then, if the cartoonists are correct, Hell is run by Satan which is also illogical. I imagine Satan high-fiving Hitler at Hell’s door, exclaiming “You were SO Satanic, bro!” It’s like sending the mob’s convicted hitmen back to the mob for “punishment.”
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I think much of our notions of hell come from Dante … Imagine if the current Oval Office occupant had been around in Dante’s day. It would probably be different. 😉
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Interesting. Reminds me of some folks who had a problem with God being portrayed by a black woman in the book The Shack. As I recall, the Holy Spirit and Jesus weren’t that Eurocentric either. Folks just love to force their images of the “forever” ones on everybody else.
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Very true. I think it’s quite possible God is a woman, and her skin is nowhere near as pale as mine. Not that it would take much.
These are the kinds of people who make all Christians look bad. Most real Christians I know don’t want to force their beliefs on anyone else. Maybe it’s because we know about that reverse psychology thing. 😉
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Of course we aren’t trying to force our beliefs on anyone else. Real Christians try to imitate our great prophet Jesus Christ. So far as I can tell, He never forced anyone to follow Him or to believe in Him or to listen to Him. People came of their own free will to listen to Jesus preach. They came to listen to Jesus because they wanted to be there to listen. No one was forcing them to come and listen to Jesus. There are good reasons so many churches have the words “Free Will” in their names.
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This is very true. These other guys make the rest of us look bad.
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Thank god I’m an atheist, and looks like we’re pretty lucky up here in the Southern Hemisphere, we don’t get that program, at least I don’t think we do, I rarely turn the idiot box on so I really don’t know, doubt I’d watch it anyway, it wouldn’t be on the history channel ,says he as he exits stage left scratching his noggin…………………….
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It’s on Amazon Prime, so you should be able to get it. I think you’d love it. I have friends or all and no faith, and those who’ve seen it mostly adore it, at the very least for the humor. It doesn’t hurt that Michael Sheen and David Tennant are superb actors, especially when it comes to comedy.
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I don’t think amazon prime is available in Australia, I rarely watch TV. but being from the British Isles you;re right I probably would enjoy their sense of humour, We English are pretty strange when it comes to sense of humour , well at least I think we’re thought of being odd at least. 🙂
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That kinda sucks!
I was raised on Brit humor, which a lot of times far surpasses American humor. I love my mom for that. And my local pbs station.
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please do not use the term Brit, there is no such thing. Great Britain is made up of four separate and distinct countries, England Scotland Ireland and Wales, I am English, I’m not very fond of the Irish, Love the Welsh, Have you heard them sing? and can tolerate the Scots, and I have no doubt that they would say exactly the same about us, the English. Brits is a lazy ugly term. I’d never call an American a Canuck or a Mex, , they being your bordering countries, I might and do call y’all Yanks, which I think is a great name, kind of steeped in history and which y’all can be mightily proud of, but brit? never.
Here endeth the lesson for today, – thats what the parson used to say at the end of his sermon when I was young went to church a loooooong time ago.
Is your mother English? The Scots have a very dour sense of humour, The Welsh have a sad sense, the English a pathos and sense of the dericulous, I wonder about the Irish 😈 😛 😀
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I believe that God has a sense of humor but I don’t know just how Devilish it is.
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I’d say the platypus proves it’s at least a little devilish. It’s almost like the Monty Python writers came up with it.
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The late Terry Pratchett has been one of my favorite authors ever since I read his first DiscWorld book about a hundred years ago.
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I haven’t read it, but it’s on my list.
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