[On the proposal to remove a ban on the film The Life of Brian in Aberystwyth]
Canon Stuart Bell, vicar of St Michael's in Aberystwyth, said: “If someone was going to make fun of my wife in a film then I would oppose that. Making fun of Jesus Christ, whom I love more than my wife, in a film is going to offend me.”
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Awwww, poor baby.
Grow a skin.
Jesus is only in the movie for ten seconds, if that. In case the title didn't give it away, the film is about Brian, who, as we all know, is not the messiah. He's just a very naughty boy.
Boy, there's nothing like a bunch of arrogant, self righteous, fanatical pricks telling you that you can't see something because it offends them. What a bunch of shits.
"whom I love more than my wife"
The funeral will be held this Sunday.
Even worse, offense has nothing to do with free speech. People must have the right to say stupid shit and you must have the right to not listen to it. You can't censor something because you're worried you might somehow watch it. Movies are voluntary.
First, bet your wife feels special. Second, if Jesus or God has an issue with it, they can take the appropriate legal action. You, on the other hand, can just sit down, and shaddap.
Well, thanks for demonstrating that you haven't learned anything at all in the past 30 years. Of course, you hadn't learned anything in the preceding several hundred either, so I didn't expect much.
@MarkS: And that's exactly why he's offended - because deep down, he knows he's a pompous shit and therefore is the movie's real target, rather than Jesus.
@tracer: Catholic priests can't. Anglicans can, thanks to Henry VIII's inability to marry wisely.
Hey, that's not to far off from where I live.
If they do ban it, I promise to take a large videobeam and screen, and set it up two feet outside of the town, and watch the movie with friends.
repeatedly.
life of brian isn't about jesus, python thought it was too difficult to make fun of jesus.
so instead they made fun of the time period he lived in, mostly about how fanatical people were hoping for messiah and such
Dear Martha. I know that our marriage has not been easy for the last few years and we haven't been very happy. I have to tell you a secret that I have kept from you. I have always been attracted to guys wearing sandles, and March 2007, when you were having your wisdom teeth out, I met another guy that I have helplessly fallen in love with, and he makes me feel like I'm reading Genesis for the first time, and I want to be with him forever. For years I have wanted to shout out my name! I'm alive! I'm Father Stuart Bell! Hello birds, hello trees! I'm alive!
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Canon Stuart Bell, vicar of St Michael's in Aberystwyth, said: “If someone was going to make fun of my wife in a film then I would oppose that. Making fun of Jesus Christ, whom I love more than my wife, in a film is going to offend me.”"
I wonder if the good Vicar will be offended when his wife serves him with divorce papers? I'd find it quite amusing if she insinuated that the grounds for the divorce is that her husband was involved with another man.
How fucking SAD that this person loves an imaginary character more than his life partner.
If I were her and I read that, I'd vomit, cry, and hit him in the face.
What a sad, strange person.
Sanctimonious bastard. If God doesn't have a sense of humour, why have we got one?
Augustus Carp is alive and well and living in Aberystwyth.
"Jesus Christ, whom I love more than my wife, in a film is going to offend me."
Yeah, but your wife is better in bed and a lot better sucking cock on camera :)
I would comment on his love for his wife, but then I realized its probably the same for her love for him, and that they are only together out of some kind of biological imperative and duty to God to reproduce.
Sad.
There was a brilliant story I saw somewhere (might even have been on FSTDT) about a group of Christians who, when LoB was released, weren't sure what it was about, and asked their Priest if he could watch the film and advise them on whether it would be OK for them as Christians to watch it.
The following Sunday, in his sermon, he advised them all to go and see the film as it was the funniest thing he'd ever seen.
If it offends you, don't watch it.
If other people want to watch it, they are going to, regardless of what you think.
The Church lost the power to control what we can and can't view long ago. Get over it.
Wow, someone's going to be a Catholic priest for a few weeks for that one.
Not to mention, I do believe that God would have a sense of humor.
Jesus Christ, whom I love more than my wife
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