I recently watched a new episode of one of my favorite obscene shows, Southpark. I had been informed of it because of the topic which was more vulgar than
usual.
The plot was that the economic crisis had reached their town. Realizing their faults, they decide to live a minamal life with only basic necessities. What is interesting
is how they joke about how the economy was some sort of entity of superior powers like a god. In this case they gave enough cues to compare it with the Christian God. The
joke is that people have faith in Government/Economy just like God, gods... etc. This is an interesting comparison with the Christian God because they see the economic crisis
punishment for not respecting the Economic god, buying un needed products and such. Where the comparison breaks, from my observation, is that faith in the economy requires
sacraficing material things. If everyone in a world power country, if all their citizens stopped buying products, their economy would fail. Thus the source of the economies power
is from people. Whereas the Christian God does not really need anything from us to survive. Instead of being created by us such as the economy, God created us. People of different
beliefs, mainly athiests and the like would argue that the Christian God is also created by us. I say we have yet to be proven wrong. There is more evidence that a God exists than
not. Well leave that argument for another day. So, if our God was like the economy, the world would cease to work at all by now. No one really follows God 100% of the time, and those
who come close are few and far between. While cute and funny, a comparison with God and Economy is short at best.
Looking around forums, I also found there was an argument with the big issue of the episode. A character plays a Christ like role, and another plays Judas like role. Note that the
roles are barely accurate, only renactments of famous Bible scenes such as the last supper and the sermon on the mount give off the Christ and apostles images. The script is very
different from the Bible. In the show, the character resembling Judas gives the Christ resembling character's location away for a video game. This was seen as a horrible episode due
to that fact among Christians. On the certain forums I read Christians gave messages such as nothing is worth betraying Christ for, while non-believers joked about the things they would
betray Christ for. I replied with a simple message. We all betray Christ. Judas was merely a direct betrayal. We like to point fingers at famous villains of history such as Judas and
many others. The thing is we all sin as well. In the show a man ranted about how that it was people who bought things they couldn't afford who were to blame. That they paid for things
with loans and credit cards. All the while he was pouring himself a drink with a fancy blender he bought with a payment plan. We can't afford to act like saints in this mess. The practice
of blaming everyone except yourself is a cowardly and selfish thing to do. We must look at our ownselves before we even think about lifting a finger to point at someone.
The plot was that the economic crisis had reached their town. Realizing their faults, they decide to live a minamal life with only basic necessities. What is interesting
is how they joke about how the economy was some sort of entity of superior powers like a god. In this case they gave enough cues to compare it with the Christian God. The
joke is that people have faith in Government/Economy just like God, gods... etc. This is an interesting comparison with the Christian God because they see the economic crisis
punishment for not respecting the Economic god, buying un needed products and such. Where the comparison breaks, from my observation, is that faith in the economy requires
sacraficing material things. If everyone in a world power country, if all their citizens stopped buying products, their economy would fail. Thus the source of the economies power
is from people. Whereas the Christian God does not really need anything from us to survive. Instead of being created by us such as the economy, God created us. People of different
beliefs, mainly athiests and the like would argue that the Christian God is also created by us. I say we have yet to be proven wrong. There is more evidence that a God exists than
not. Well leave that argument for another day. So, if our God was like the economy, the world would cease to work at all by now. No one really follows God 100% of the time, and those
who come close are few and far between. While cute and funny, a comparison with God and Economy is short at best.
Looking around forums, I also found there was an argument with the big issue of the episode. A character plays a Christ like role, and another plays Judas like role. Note that the
roles are barely accurate, only renactments of famous Bible scenes such as the last supper and the sermon on the mount give off the Christ and apostles images. The script is very
different from the Bible. In the show, the character resembling Judas gives the Christ resembling character's location away for a video game. This was seen as a horrible episode due
to that fact among Christians. On the certain forums I read Christians gave messages such as nothing is worth betraying Christ for, while non-believers joked about the things they would
betray Christ for. I replied with a simple message. We all betray Christ. Judas was merely a direct betrayal. We like to point fingers at famous villains of history such as Judas and
many others. The thing is we all sin as well. In the show a man ranted about how that it was people who bought things they couldn't afford who were to blame. That they paid for things
with loans and credit cards. All the while he was pouring himself a drink with a fancy blender he bought with a payment plan. We can't afford to act like saints in this mess. The practice
of blaming everyone except yourself is a cowardly and selfish thing to do. We must look at our ownselves before we even think about lifting a finger to point at someone.
