Mar. 11, 2008 - ‘C.’ World: Jordan C. Butler describes his experience with God
Perspectives Editor Jordan C. Butler describes his experience at a conference with God.
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March 11th, 2008 at 8:16 am
Jesus Christ, Jordan! Are you determined to write the most controversial articles you can come up with?! You are going to get murdered in your sleep! I hope Emily’s not a democrat.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
I find this article very offensive not only as a christian but also as an American. I understand you pride yourself on writing funny little things for the paper but this is not funny, rather it is downright rude. Whats wrong with Americans believing in God and claiming this is the country of God. last time I checked this was the land of the free. Your slander of America isn’t anything new and it just seems like you are jumping on the bandwagon of the leftist media’s agenda to bad mouth America as much as possible. I guess thats the new trend around this country but i have a different idea. Why dont you have at least once ounce of freakin pride in your country and the diversity that it offers. So what if some people claim America to be “the land God loves most.” Your writing is starting to mirror to Brian Ault’s work and trust me, thats not a good thing.
March 11th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
This is honestly one of the most ill-informed, offensive pieces I have seen published on this site. This tool is trying to be funny and failing miserably. How about you try being a real journalist….you’re a poor man’s(very poor) howard stern on this, except not half as funny. Give it up….
March 11th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Today class, we will be learning about satire.
satire
Main Entry: sat•ire
Pronunciation: \?sa-?t?(-?)r\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin satura, satira, perhaps from (lanx) satura dish of mixed ingredients, from feminine of satur well-fed; akin to Latin satis enough — more at sad
Date: 1501
1 : a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn
2 : trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly
synonyms see wit
I provide a definition to ease you into understanding satire. It is a difficult thing to understand sometime, but the ability to analyze satire is a skill all college students should have.
Below, I’ll subject Jordan Butler’s column to a brief analysis as a piece of satire. Hopefully this will help those of you who seem to be incapable of grasping satire understand Mr Butler.
“I’m a very loving God,” He said. “I love all of My creations. With that being said, however, I will now list to you the creations I hate: Muslims, Democrats, Roe v. Wade, Canada, tax increases, terrorists, communists, Iraqis and hippies.”
Here Mr Butler is examining the irony of organized religion. I would ask those of you who disagree to examine the history of the Crusades (“I hate: Muslims”) and tax increases (Presbyterian pastor of Cincinnati’s St. Barnabas Church, has refused to pay all of his federal income tax). Or that God will kill abortion doctors and those who seek abortions ( Guilty Plea in Plot to Blow Up Abortion Clinic. Et cetera, et cetera.
“Satan could not be reached for comment at press time Monday night.”
Here, it appears, Mr Butler is playing off the ideas of good versus evil embedded in religion as a way to deal with conflict. The association with Satan and Sodom and Gomorrah, “The laws of Satan thrive where the laws of God are rejected. The Profit Amos predicted the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah”. This is a light way of analyzing how religion Otherizes people. That is, religion as a way to justify conflict. It also appears to be an attempt to have a little fun with journalism.
“Another reporter was skeptical about God’s preference for the U.S. and asked God why He allowed wildfires to ravage southern California earlier this year or why He let Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005. God hesitated before responding.
‘I don’t know. I work in mysterious ways?’ He finally said.”
One final piece of analysis that has fun with one of the most fundamental and disturbing questions of religion: why does God allow us to suffer? This is a witty way to reveal how religion has failed to answer this question for a lot of people.
To Wade:
While you might not appreciate Mr Buter’s perspective, and don’t seem to have an appreciation of satire, I would ask that you refrain from impeaching his intelligence. In a few short paragraphs I’ve hopefully demonstrated why Jordon does in fact know what he is talking about, as well as proven that there exists valid reason to have these views.
March 11th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Nothing new, nothing constructive, nothing worth listening to. Whoever thinks ignorant rants that misrepresent and subversively attack Christianity and Republicans make good journalism should consider a different major. It’s obvious that was the intention.
March 11th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
America sucks.
Personally I think it’s funny how we believe we’re the best nation on Earth. Those of us who have traveled and seen a little bit of the world know that America is backwards in many ways, whether we like to talk about it or not (we often don’t because of the opposition like that you see here in this forum).
To anyone who denies this, try getting your news somewhere besides CNN and FOX news.
We are by no means the worst place to live, but we are nowhere near the top as we like to believe.
We think we are the world’s savior when in fact every other country on this planet despises us, and for a good reason too. We are fat, imperious, and egocentric racists. And what is worse, we are hypocrites.
Why the hell would God bless this land?
I consider myself a Christian, but it pisses me off when people believe that America is somehow the blessed land of this Earth.
We’re like the fat kid in gym class who thinks he is an all star athlete. Let’s get real people. It isn’t until that we stop lying to ourselves about who we really are that we can make big strides in rectifying the problems that we’re seeing.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Seriously, Jordan does seem to be somewhat witty, it’s just a shame he doesn’t seem to possess any ambition outside knocking out a third-rate Onion knockoff every week