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Funny Or Die Delivers Jesus’s Response To Being Dragged Into The Rick Perry Campaign

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Rick Perry is trying to revive an otherwise moribund campaign by touting his religious credentials– which, against Newt Gingrich (Catholic of questionable marital history) and Mitt Romney (Mormon of otherwise squeaky-clean marital history), may be his last hope. One entity, according to Funny or Die, that is not happy to have been involuntarily dragged into Perry’s anti-gay, hyper-religious politics? Jesus Himself, who kindly requested to be kept out of politics, please.

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“You don’t have to be in the pews every Sunday to know there is something wrong in this country when Rick Perry is openly running for president,” Jesus states, comically, in the beginning of his ad. He asks, peacefully, of Perry: “I just wish he’d leave me out of his sad, sad presidential campaign.” “I get it, I’m popular,” He explained, “people like to claim they know me.” He then drew a comparison to people who say they know Brad Pitt: “would you really go around bragging that you know Brad Pitt all the time?” He also made it clear that “there’s not a place” in the New Testament “where I remotely hint that it’s okay to put people to death or go to war.”

As a Christian myself, I do always get queasy about comedic representations of the Lord in viral videos and elsewhere. But there is clearly no offense to the actual teachings of Jesus meant here, and the argument that Perry using the name of Jesus for his political benefit– to contrast himself with a member of a church that has “Jesus Christ” in its name, and against another candidate who is a member of the only church Peter founded personally– should be far more offensive than anything Funny or Die can come up with to Christians is a very valid one. While Jesus probably did not say a word about satire, “give to Caesar what is Caesar’s” is arguably the most important teaching of the New Testament, one that campaign ads like Perry’s violate flagrantly and routinely. As “Jesus” concludes in this clip, “faith made America strong, but it made Rick Perry a complete imbecile.”

The “campaign ad” via Funny or Die below:

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  • Anonymous

    guy from derrick comedy ftw. 

  • Anonymous

    Amen

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TW7RDF2EW3MIQZZTPR7O6ORXIQ robert

    Its all Obama’s fault.

  • Anonymous

    That was great!

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Not really funny. Just dead-on accurate.

  • http://twitter.com/Bennybombom Ben

    Live (free)Funny or Die…I’m down with that.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GVWU6V6ORHYQ57UOHAEI52XTVU Dennis

    the funny scale never registered. Accurate, yes – Funny, not at all

  • Anonymous

    ‘“give to Caesar what is Caesar’s” is arguably the most important teaching of the New Testament’
    Wow, I think you need to go back and read just a bit more closely. What about that whole “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life” thing that He said?

  • john smith III

    The number of the beast is 616…what else in the New Testament has been incorrectly translated?
    At least the Mormons have an accurately transcribed holy book!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

    That was really funny!!  I hate when everybody keeps saying god is on our side.  

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  • Anonymous

    Not funny, so just obnoxious.   The offensive is portraying Jesus as ordinary.  That is very offensive.  

  • Anonymous

    Also, Rick Perry is a former US Air Force pilot, so when liberals call him an idiot, the rest of us realize how bizarre that is   Media folks actually think a PHD in literature is impressive but being an Air Force pilot is not.  That’s why the media, in general, has no credibility.  In fact, seems like they go out of their way to ignore his Air Force service, since it clearly hurts their narrative that if you’re from the South, you’re an idiot.   

  • Anonymous

    What’s really funny is that these same people do not have the guts do a piece like this playing the Islamic prophet Mohamed, but with Jesus and Christianity it is ok to make fun of people’s faith.

    Muslims not only criticize homosexuals, they hang them in public squares, but I’m still wating to see an funny or die video with Mohamed.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    You do have a point, but not much of one.
    These people are making a comment about American politics and the fact that the Rick Perry types would outlaw homosexuality and why stop there?

  • Чёрт Возьми

    I do not respect calling anybody an idiot, but what is the connection between being an Air Force pilot and anything else in this discussion?

  • Чёрт Возьми

    And the claim that Rick Perry represents an ideal Christian is just as offensive.

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps not an idiot, but the Cs & Ds that compose his transcript from Texas A&M, his reputation in the Texas State Legislator as being a little dense, his inability to recall how many people are on the supreme court and their names, his inability to speak coherently at the debates, and finally his agreement with his campaign team to produce that ridiculous ad all lead to the sense that he is not a very intelligent individual.    My dad was an Army Air Force pilot in WWII and he will be the first to tell you that military pilots run the gamut from brilliant to idiotic.

  • Anonymous

    Agreed – As a church going Protestant, I find the fact that Perry again holds up the hard right bigoted Fox News fed Evangelical as representative of the typical Christian to be pretty offensive.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Pardon my ignorance, but what does ftw mean? Just asking.

  • Iole DeRuiter

    I’m glad that someone has finally taken the initiative to tell the Republican Right to stop using “Jesus” as their mascot. Jesus would never subscribe to the GOP ideology. Quoting Scriptures as “the word of Jesus” is also totally inaccurate as the New Testament was not written  by Jesus. However, the few real pieces of evidence (Josephus-1st century Jewish historian) attesting to Jesus’ life do portray him as wise, just, and principled.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Jesus don’t want Rick for a sunbeam.

  • Anonymous

    Of course, we conservatives need to learn to stop bringing stuff up in conversation without first waiting to be prompted to do so by a big wise leftie who has Media Matters accreditation. Sorry, sir.

  • Anonymous

    *for the win

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MPPK2CTPRQYEYSXVOFVUJRX3SQ ken

    If you look at the “red letter” bibles, they highlight the words that are actually attributed to Jesus. Granted, these words are hearsay, but they’re pretty consistent with what we usually take to be the Jesus’ message. You know, like if you think someone might be threatening you, bomb the shit out of them.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Google “Rick Perry  2004 gay scandal secretary of state “

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

     Read Jefferson’s Bible.
    Thomas Jefferson edited a Bible to eliminate everything that wasn’t about the actual Red Letter words of Jesus Christ, The Messiah.

  • http://www.facebook.com/robert.d.mcginnis Robert Dwayne McGinnis

    Frances Martel, the writer of this article, claims to be a christian yet protests a person “boldly” stating the fact in public?!  The bible says that the land rejoices when the righteous is in power.  I think it’s about time someone was bold enough to establish just who that person is. To date, no other candidate has taken such a bold step!  A step that was sure to recieve the profound dislike of the media and now it seems, also of those who claim to be of the christian faith.  On the contrary, Jesus made it clear that a city on a hill can’t be hid and that a person without moral standards is like a defenseless city against its’ enemies.  The next president of the United States will be determined by majority eletoral vote of each State representing either the “Conservative” or “Liberal” viewpoint on the issues and not the issues themselves.  This country needs Gov. Rick Perry as its’ next president if it truly is to recover from the damage and threat to the American way of life the “Liberal” viewpoint from prior legislators have caused.
    http://lafango.com/blog/brightfame_63/63481-rick-perry-the-right-leader-for-tough-times

  • LibelFreeZone

    I agree with Frances Martel.  Here’s how Ron Paul handles faith and politics.

    Ron Paul’s Statement of Faith
    http://www.ronpaul2012.com/the-issues/statement-of-faith/

    “My faith is a deeply private issue to me, and I don’t speak on it in great detail during my speeches because I want to avoid any appearance of exploiting it for political gain.  Let me be very clear here:  I have accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Savior, and I endeavor every day to follow Him in all I do and in every position I advocate.”

  • LibelFreeZone

    Be fair.  Rick Perry never said he would “outlaw” homosexuality.  Can’t be done, anyway.

  • LibelFreeZone

    I don’t think it’s “offensive.”  When Jesus walked the earth, He was ordinary.  That was his appeal to the people of the time.

  • Anonymous

    Regardless of religious beliefs separation of Church and State is the non-negotiable principle of Democracy. The GOP needs to STOP  trying to turn the US into a Theocracy. Period.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    It was outlawed. Called sodomy, and very much illegal.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    I should have left it at supporting CentralScrutinizer. Air Force pilot does not translate to “highly intelligent.” In fact, my son and I, both Army Officers (I’m retired), agree that the biggest political-military screw-ups in deciding what is a “good war” were Bush 2, Rumsfeld, and McCain. All three of them were “Jet  Jockeys” and dont’ know crap about real war on the ground.
    Bush, Rumsfeld, and Perry never flew in combat, or anywhere near combat, and look where Bush and Rumsfeld led us. I have no doubt Perry would do the same.

  • LibelFreeZone

    While it may be true that sodomy is illegal, Rick Perry didn’t say he would outlaw homosexuality.  Of course, if you can post a video of him saying that, I’ll stand corrected.

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