Today's MiniCultural Warfare Update

[solarbird]

Focus on the Family's graphics have officially become Colbertian. From today's threatdown Family Advocates Call COPA Ruling 'Troubling', Focus on the Family Citizenlink, 22 March 2007, I present:



ETA: adularia has called for a Cultural Warfare Re-Captioning Contest on this picture, to which I can only say oh CHRIST yes. Post your entries below!

Comments

[adularia.livejournal.com]

Re-captioning contest!

EXCUSE ME, DO YOU HAS A BREATH MINT PLS?

[solarbird]

oh CHRIST yes. ETA!

Here's my own

[solarbird]

SIMBA WANNA CRACKERS!! <NARM> <NARM> <NARM> <NARM>

[jobyl.livejournal.com]

Feeding Christians to the lions.
The right choice then. The right choice now.

[cafiorello.livejournal.com]

Oh, I vote for this one!

Cathy

[solarbird]

MUAH!

[mathmuffin.livejournal.com]

Please don't feed me to the lions. I am high in transfats and will clog their arteries! :-)

[jobyl.livejournal.com]

Christians: the partially hydrogenated monotheists.

[backrubbear.livejournal.com]

Christian families: The tasty kitty treat!

[grian-ruadh.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Calvin, is it too much to ask that you refrain from making weird faces in just ONE family portrait?!

[janne.livejournal.com]

Hey, isn't that the lion from Narnia? Just put that thing through photoshop and add some armor and crowns to those kids...

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

Aslan says: Christians taste bad. No wait! Have bad taste, yeah.

[wytwolf.livejournal.com]

It's funny that the lion seems to be the threat in that picture, when usually in Christian media the lion represents god. Lion and the lamb and all that jazz. I found that amusing.

[otoselkie.livejournal.com]

What about "The God-Lion does not approve!", then?

[mathmuffin.livejournal.com]

wytwolf said, "when usually in Christian media the lion represents god." I don't recall that in the Christian media I've seen. I just did a text search on an online Bible to confirm this. Lions in the Bible are either real lions (they inhabited Israel in ancient days) or metaphors. The lion was a metaphor for strength, which was sometimes applied to God, but more often to warriors. The lion's roar was a metaphor for a call to attention, which was sometimes applied to God's word, but more often to the commands of kings. The hunting lion was a metaphor for danger, which was not applied to God.

In the lion and lamb verse, Isaiah 11:6-8, neither animal represented God. It was metaphor about a time of peace, when enemies would get along.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

Anyway, my entry for the caption rewriting is, "We feed our lion Purina Lion Chow, and look how big he grew!"

[wytwolf.livejournal.com]

There is a large difference between what the bible actually says and christian media :)

The lion of Judah and the lion from Narnia are probably the two things that lend towards lions representing god/jesus or christians in general in the christian media. I was raised christian my entire life, so my mind automatically associates a lion with that sort of thing. Maybe not everyone does that, but most people I know who are christian would draw the same conclusions, whether it's based on the actual bible or not. Sometimes people run with something and forget where it came from.

[dogemperor.livejournal.com]

YOUR ASLAN WANTS STEAK

Or of course there's the classic (if already used in a lolcat pic)

JESUS CHRIST IT'S A LION GET IN THE CAR

[redbeardsghost.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one here who has read the book of daniel? No christian should fear a lion. Well, yeah, everyone knows what happened when Daniel slept over at their house, but the relevant passage is earlier, when three of Daniel's friends were thrown into a pit of fire for the heresy of not worshipping the king. What happens next isn't the important part. What is important is what they say when given the chance to fall in with public opinion.

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it, and he will rescue us from your hand, O king. But even if he does not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up."

Now, whether you believe the story to be true, allegorical, or a bag of fertilizer, any christian ought to believe it and take that attitude. Thus my entry, full of irony, is We aint afraid of no lions!

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

Lions: 4
Christians: 0