At Least "Decemberween" Was SUPPOSED To Sound Stupid

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Trying to decide which is more unintentionally hilarious: a musical stage adaptation of one of Beverly Lewis’s Amish pseudoporn novels (thanks, evilcresyluna!), or the nice Christian group trying to turn Halloween into “Jesus Ween.”

On the one hand, I’m picturing the glitteriest, Glee-est, vaudevilliest showstopping Amish musical, replete with tap dancing and chorus lines and pyrotechnics and music by either Andrew Lloyd Webber or the Gershwins.

On the other hand, JESUS WEEN.

You decide.

Comments

[beccastareyes]

I wonder if All Saints Day is too Catholic for them*. Look! Perfectly good Christian holiday at the same time of year as Halloween, and, in fact, part of the origin of Halloween. Heck, you can even play War on Christmas and try to say 'Real True Christians' need to reclaim All Saints Day from Halloween.

Also, anyone who can think of Jesus Ween without giggling may never have been a child in modern America. Hee, ween.

* Wikipedia tells me that some Protestant denominations (at least Anglicans and Lutherans) celebrate All Saints, with the understanding that without Purgatory, all Christians, dead and living, count under the 'saints'.

[black-rider.livejournal.com]

The sort of Christian who would celebrate JesusWeen wouldn't recognize the feast days. I actually know a few who won't even celebrate Christmas or Easter, on the logic that they're pagan holidays.

[beccastareyes]

I actually know a few who won't even celebrate Christmas or Easter, on the logic that they're pagan holidays.

Are pagan cooties really that contagious that adding trees and eggs* to something makes it suddenly pagan?

There's a joke about egging someone's property buried in that.

* Well, and changing the date. I know my sister even learned in her Catholicism for Grown-ups classes the whole 'given what the shepherds were doing at the time, there's no way the Biblical account of Jesus's birth happened around winter solstice'.

[black-rider.livejournal.com]

Yeah, apparently so. Primitive Baptists are strange creatures. They don't do feast days, rituals or ceremonies (except perhaps ones of their own devising), or any of that. If it's even vaguely Catholic, they're against it. Except guilt, they're big on guilt.

[black-rider.livejournal.com]

I told my fiancé about JesusWeen, and about twenty minutes later, he turned to me and said, "So I guess we need to get some Bibles for JesusWeen, huh?" I reacted with appropriate shock and horror, and he continued, "But I thought you *wanted* to scare little kids."

"Scare them," I said, "Not scar them for life."

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that Jesus' ween is never mentioned in the Bible.

Au contraire

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision_of_Jesus

Re: Au contraire

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

Ok, it's not *directly* mentioned in the Bible. ;-)

[stormteller.livejournal.com]

I'm not quite cynical enough to believe that JesusWeen is entirely devoid of self-parody. Yes, they are probably serious in their intent, but they didn't choose that name without any awareness of its stupidity.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

I guess they didn't want to go with Hallowsus.

[sofish-sasha.livejournal.com]

A while ago some nationalistic Swedish politician talked about the importance of maintaining ancient Swedish traditions, such as "Christmas, Easter, and Halloween". Um. The only reason the whole Halloween spectacle is gaining ground here is because Swedish kids watch American films and shows and go "Hey, free candy!"

Can't be fun to go trick-or-treating here though; most people don't prepare for any little ghouls that might turn up, so there isn't a whole lot of actual candy to be gained, and Swedish kids are way too polite to egg anyone's house (plus they know they'd probably be in deep shit if they did that).

Halloween is mostly an excuse for yoofs to watch scary films, eat a lot of candy, have dress up parties, and get drunk. I'm rather looking forward to it this year, since I'm in a film school now. We've actually been taught how to do make-up that looks like wounds, burns, boils, and bruises, so I'm expecting the getups at the upcoming Halloween party to be epic! :D

[black-rider.livejournal.com]

Hey, I wouldn't wanna live anywhere that a good party isn't considered patriotic! ;)

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

Well, since I very nearly sucked water into my windpipe upon reading "Jesus Ween", I have to go with that one.

Seriously, first "Tea baggers" and now this. How can they not know?

I'm honestly beginning to believe it's all a big practical joke.