Buddy Christ

  • Thread starter Thread starter FrCorey
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
The first time I saw Dogma, and this statue, I though “there but for the Grace of God go we!” How unlikely is this statue, really? Had we not been protected by the Holy Spirit, some of the goofy faction of the Church would have led us here, or worse! I hate to admit it, Dogma was funny to me. I know where it is wrong and why it is blasphemous, but I still laughed.

This is not the thread for it, but how would Muslims have responded to “Buddy Mohammid”?
 
ralphinal said:
The first time I saw Dogma, and this statue, I though “there but for the Grace of God go we!” How unlikely is this statue, really? Had we not been protected by the Holy Spirit, some of the goofy faction of the Church would have led us here, or worse! I hate to admit it, Dogma was funny to me. I know where it is wrong and why it is blasphemous, but I still laughed.

This is not the thread for it, but how would Muslims have responded to “Buddy Mohammid”?
Click to expand...
Anything from jail to forty lashes to death… depends on the group
 
This picture seems to me to be making the sacred profane. It makes me hurt inside.
 
Cathryn said:
This picture seems to me to be making the sacred profane. It makes me hurt inside.
Click to expand...
Yes… I can’t really accept it or appriciate it, as it seems to turn our Lord into somekind of divine lap-pet.
 
The Buddy Christ cracks me up! Most of the jokes I tell are Catholic jokes and I’m very devout. I also loved Dogma because I think it is necessary to laugh at some aspects of our faith (people trying to make the church “hip”, not just Catholic either, a lot of evangelical churches are going that route as well, the sad stereotype of Catholics doing everything else but actually praying when at Mass, etc.)

One of my friends is a very devout Catholic and doesn’t mind making jokes about his faith. He even joked about how Catholic guys try and sit with pretty girls at Mass so they can hold hands during the Our Father and hug during the Sign of Peace! (Yes, I know, it’s from Facebook, but that’s what we’re joking about) I know he doesn’t go to Mass for those reasons because he gets so into it and has so much love for Our Lord and Our Lady (we always pray for each other). But at the same time, we think God has a great sense of humor and we like to poke fun at our faith a little bit.
 
  1. Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,
  2. who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
  3. but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.
  4. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
  5. For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,
  6. so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
  7. and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Click to expand...
This is the attitude Holy Scripture says we should have.
 
Sorry if I sounded like a bit of a **** up above. While I could have said it better, I still stand by what I said - even more so after reading the summary of the movie.

I had a friend who went to see a fortune teller once, who told him some things, which he in turn told me, and several months later, they all came true. Things like (a) you will go overseas, (b) you will never have to worry about money again after April, etc.

Well, he did get a plum job overseas that pays him exorbitant amounts of money, and he got the job that April, as predicted. No one knew he was planning to leave until right at the very end, and even the Friday before hearing back from that firm, he was in severe doubt about his chance of success, asking “What am I going to do? What am I going to do?”…

Anyway, a group of us spoke about it after the fact, and I said “I don’t doubt that this man may have predicted the future, but visiting fortune tellers is something satanic.”

Another friend piped up: “If I ask satan where the bus stop is, and he tells me, what’s the big deal?”

The big deal is that satan will give people 99% truths, and then trip them up with the one lie that will sink them.

If you think of Jesus as the buddy christ, then how does this fit in with things like Mary’s exhortations to pray the rosary daily, because she cannot hold back Christ’s hand for long.

Or the 5th and the last boxes in this link:

padrepio.catholicwebservices.com/ENGLISH/App.htm

I don’t mean to be self-righteous or condescending, but buddy christ, man…
 
CSN said:
If you think of Jesus as the buddy christ, then how does this fit in with things like Mary’s exhortations to pray the rosary daily, because she cannot hold back Christ’s hand for long.

Or the 5th and the last boxes in this link:

padrepio.catholicwebservices.com/ENGLISH/App.htm

I don’t mean to be self-righteous or condescending, but buddy christ, man…
Click to expand...
I never said I think of Him as “Buddy Christ”. I find it to be a humorous interpretation of Our Lord and irreverent movie that points out the absurdity of the things that are going on in our Church.
Yes, the BC is on my dashboard, because it makes me smile. I am sure that Jesus wouldn’t mind if I had a silly picture of Him that made me smile.
 
PatienceAndLove said:
I never said I think of Him as “Buddy Christ”. I find it to be a humorous interpretation of Our Lord and irreverent movie that points out the absurdity of the things that are going on in our Church.
Yes, the BC is on my dashboard, because it makes me smile. I am sure that Jesus wouldn’t mind if I had a silly picture of Him that made me smile.
Click to expand...
👍 …Gold is where it is found…
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top