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Ricky Gervais's Easter message bashes Christianity, again
By Danielle GibsonApril 15th, 2011, 2:08 pmComments (26)
Ricky Gervais isn't done dissecting Christianity, thank (the non-existent) God. While he previously brought merry good cheer with his "Why I'm An Atheist" essay, published in The Wall Street Journal last Christmas, he's decided to not let Easter go by without another religious-themed gem, this time found on his website.
Gervais makes his usual case, not against Christianity but Christians:
"It's not that I don't believe that the teachings of Jesus wouldn't make this a better world if they were followed. It's just that they are rarely followed."
So before slipping into sweet glucose dreams from your Easter egg hunt, why not gather the family round and see if you stack up against Gervais in his Ten Commandments test? He makes a fairly persuasive case as to why he's a great model for Christianity, despite being an atheist. But in any case, text is not the real highlight of the piece. The real highlight of this piece is Gervais's "Sexy Jesus" picture, posted above.
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My favorite part about the 10 Commandments is the part about not coveting your neighbor's wife. What this basically means is that women are not people, otherwise your neighbor's wife is your neighbor.
Me, I like the part about not coveting your neighbor's ass.
Hot diggety, I love my neighbour's wife's ass.
I would follow Jesus' teachings on the condition that I'm granted at least one of his super powers, particularly turning water to wine.
Ha! You boob! You passed up on "Resurrection" for "Wine"?!?!
being able to pee standing up is pretty cool. I guess this isn't unique to Jebus ... but this does not detract from its coolness.
meh. Bashing religion is for the uninspired.
Boohoohoo.
Too true, man. People mock and God laughs.
Which one of your imaginary friends is laughing?
ROFLMFAO
That picture…..urrrrrgh….
Gervais is a funny guy, but his christianity rants are unoriginal and rote.
SR is a funny guy, but his Gervais rants are unoriginal and rote.
Dear Ricky,
You're an atheist. Be an atheist and shut the fuck up.
Sincerely,
Sdeetee, (an admittely bad example of a) Christian
Atheists will shut the fuck up when the religious shut the fuck up.
How is atheism and shutting up related? And that's about the most hypocritical thing i've heard a Christian say considering your whole agenda is to spread like wild fire by speaking out as much as possible.
F'n Christians knocking on my door today, trying to shop their belief system on me. How would they like it if I knocked on their door, disturbing them, to tell them about my belief system? Arseholes.
Who's Ricky Gervais?
Apparently an unoriginal attention whore.
That's better than being an anonymous troll.
Hey! Look at me! Look at me! I can be both!
you say whore like its a bad thing. where would we all be without whores?
As far as I'm concerned, you can't bash Christianity enough
Halleluj - er, fucken Eh!
christianity, and all other religions for that matter, are for the weak. look around at the world, if you created that, would you let it go to hell, I think not. the world will get to be a better place when people start to realize that it's up to us to make something of our lives, and not wait until some non-existing god will make it all better.