Christian Science with Uncle John

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   feminist jen 7.22.2008 at 11:13 pm | Permalink

   1) who on earth thought of this??

   2) why pickles?

   3) why is god sticking a fork in my ass and in my head?

   4) how, oh how, will i be able to keep myself from trying this useful and entertaining experiment at home?

   feminist love,
   jen

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   Lauren O 7.22.2008 at 11:17 pm | Permalink

   YES! This video made me laugh so hard when I saw it on Boing Boing. At first, I thought it was just pretty average saccharine Sunday School material (I taught Sunday School for four years, so it gave me a bit of nostalgia), and the pickle looked pretty fucking rad all glowing and sparking.

   But then at the end of the video, it seems they forgot to turn the lights back out, and the dude is comparing the pickle to a Christian emanating holy light…as it turns rubbery and dried out and a mysterious black liquid oozes out of its impaled rind. Apparently Christians are just like toxic Satan pickles.

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   A. 7.22.2008 at 11:17 pm | Permalink

   Next up on the Christian Science hour, Kirk Cameron’s buddy demonstrates the scientific worth of intelligent design using only a banana!

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   Tanya 7.22.2008 at 11:34 pm | Permalink

   Ok, my high school physics/chemistry teacher loved this demo. It is actual science, he’s making plasma in there, not the light of some holy touch.

   Even better, electrified pickle is the most disgusting smelling thing, and is absolutely inedible. Nobody wants anything to do with it after the demo.

   I guess it IS a pretty good comparison to a Christian…

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   Jill 7.22.2008 at 11:43 pm | Permalink *

   So… becoming a Christian will make my pickle burn and then drip funny-looking liquid?

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   RyanRutley 7.22.2008 at 11:44 pm | Permalink

   A, my favourite part of that “proof” is that bananas (as we know them) don’t exist in nature — they were selectively bred.

   WHICH IS PROOF THAT GOD MADE THEM JUST FOR US.

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   Katherine 7.23.2008 at 1:02 am | Permalink

   I didn’t know my favorite science experiment could become MORE phallic, but it has! I was hoping the “bad pickle” would jerk off too much and get electrocuted. That’s disturbingly “creative,” I’m sorry.

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   Marked Hoosier 7.23.2008 at 1:36 am | Permalink

   I dunno… is it a miracle or is it science?? I am so confused!

   And I’m going to do something special with this hot, red pickle right over here.

   I am so getting my girlfriend to call me her hot, red pickle. :D

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   exholt 7.23.2008 at 2:35 am | Permalink

   As a native New Yorker, I am enraged at this sacrilegious mistreatment of a sweet innocent little pickle who never bothered anyone!!!! Does he have no shame?!!!

   *Sniff* *Sniff* What a waste of a good pickle.

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    Rumtumtugger 7.23.2008 at 3:13 am | Permalink

    This made me laugh so hard! I’m shaking with some silent giggles here. It’s best when the thing spews all that liquid. Hehehehe!

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    Atalanta 7.23.2008 at 11:14 am | Permalink

    So becoming a Christian will cause me to roast slowly from the inside out, my sweet pure bodily fluids becoming a smoking, toxic mess?

    I feel this analogy is lacking something.

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    elise 7.23.2008 at 12:56 pm | Permalink

    http://overcompensating.com/posts//20070615.html

    I love this retort to the very scientific banana argument.

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    Clueless WW 7.24.2008 at 11:53 am | Permalink

    Sometimes a glowing electrified pickle is just a glowing electrified pickle…?

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    Kristin 7.29.2008 at 4:45 pm | Permalink

    I guess I just don’t get it. It just your standard Sunday School-style object lesson. What does this have to do with feminism–unless your are trying to make fun of Christians because, naturally, they are all misogynistic. In which case I’m pretty disappointed in *your* narrow mindedness.

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