Whilst perusing through the internet today I came across an old article from a website called MediaWatchWatch which contains an interview with the infamous Stephen Green of Christian Voice. Being a parody site the intention is clearly to make Green look stupid and so asks some pointed questions to lead him into answers the interviewer knows will look ridiculous to the choir they’re preaching to. The most staggering question regards Jerry Springer: The Opera and Green’s prominent role in the protests over the decision to bring the blasphemous production to theatres in this country. If you haven’t been behind the controversy then you should look it up. Here’s what the website asks Mr Green
MWW: Ofcom has stated that the characters portrayed in Jerry Springer: The Opera were not conveyed as accurate representation of religious figures, but were “characterisations of the shows participants”. Furthermore, they were the product of a fictional Springer’s hallucinations. Isn’t therefore your complaint that Jesus is portrayed blasphemously simply false, if Jesus is not actually portrayed at all?
Now without knowing the full details of Ofcom’s reports it strikes me that if anyone watch JSTO and didn’t think that they were portraying Jesus on stage then they may need to pay a visit to the local nut house to check to see if they’re screwed right. Let’s see here. We have a character called Jesus who is the virgin son of God to Mary and has an adversary called Satan. How could Stephen Green ever get the impression that the producers of Jerry Springer The Opera were satirising Christian beliefs? In an amazing act of cognitive dissonance Ofcom have apparently denied that the show was ever portraying Jesus because the Jesus portrayed in JSTO bore no resemblance to the actual Jesus.
Proof that if you bend the truth far enough then it will eventually snap.
TRF
