YOU CANT SPELL JESUS W/O SI (well you can, but it wouldnt be so much fun)

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50 christians singing hymns randomly on the street corner, zines and posters on walls, tracts that ape punk handbills, rock and roll music, xxxchurch.com and the god kills a kitten meme, tent revivals in downtown parking lots like TAZs, all of a sudden evangicale christians have come into situionist pranks and dadaist street theater--some questions--

1)where did they pick all of this up, most of them really arent the leftists i expect.
2)why did they pick this up.
3) irony, artifice and perfomance seems opposite of the christian lifestyle, and street theater required it.
4) what can the left learn ?

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 09:23 (twenty-two years ago)

why does "Edward Woodward" have four "d"'s in it?

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

...because "Ewar Woowar" would just sound silly.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Sounds like Chewbacca doing an Al Pacino impression.

What is this thread about, anyway?

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i think its about the jesus army having barbecues in sheffield on a friday night, acoustic guitar songs off praise on full blast, with pissed lads milling around confused in the freezing cold.

at least, this can only be explained by "situionist pranks and dadaist street theater"

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

GREATEST JOKE EVAH was when Billy Conolly said Edward Woodward sounded like a fart in the bath.

― Nellie (nellskies), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

at the Truck Festival on Saturday I saw a guy wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Jesus and the legend, "Jesus is Coming. Look Busy!" I am not sure what I am supposed to conclude from this.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

That the T-shirt I've been seeing around for two years has finally made it to wherever you live?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

There are more religious nuts in Ireland than in Oxford?!?!?

Die, Truck Festival DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!!!

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

related I think is all the jesussed-up ripoffs of current advertising and athletic wear (Life is Short. Pray Hard.; Lord's Gym; Got Jesus? etfknc). hitching the wagon of evangelism to the engine of "effective advertising" seems like an admission of catastrophic and (ha hopefully [sorry anthony!]) permanent failure.

the SI stuff doesn't seem much difft to me, "crafting a message relevant to our time/the kids" gives too much credit to the time and the kids both. you've got the TRUTH, haven't you? bend them to you! this is probably my Dante-love speaking, or the prairie lutheran, but sugaring the pill with borrowed tricks rubs me wrong.

that said I really admire the Gideons (I always take their NT when they hand it out on streetcorners). their headslappingly literal method of actually spreading the gospel (and then shutting up abt it) seems to square well in the age of consent (and even has i think a whif of punky rudeness abt it: "hey we gave you the keys to the kingdom, we left it in your HOTEL, but you watched sopranos, didn't you? hey, it's your soul, dipshit."

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

There are more religious nuts in Ireland than in Oxford?!?!?

well, obviously...no-one has ever claimed that any of our statues have moved.

Die, Truck Festival DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!!!

it has. At least until next year.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

your HOTEL

not only that, they left them in every room of my student hall of residence in Bristol. Do this at every uni or is Bristol singled out for being particularly ungodly?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

ha tho of course the Divine Comedy is a case of 'sugaring the pill' on a massive scale too.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Just hang around UCI for a while. You'll see more bad Jesus puns and ad adaptations than you can shake a stick at.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

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