houts@reed.UUCP (Bill Houts) (03/08/85)
pture, but rather "revisions" of Sunday School songs I sang as a child. "Cheese is Nice, Superstore" (my personal favorite) is scarcely a declaration ofrabid anti-Christian sentiment. It is a parody (and a well written one at that, should I say so myself) of that (in)famous rock opera, JESUS CHRIST, SUPERSTAR. If you view this parody as blasphemous in some way, you must believe that the rock opera is in some way holy or sacred. JCS was itself denounced by various Church authorities as "blasphemy" when it ran. I can't help but imagine Messrs. Marchionni, Black, and Brown as Co-Chairmen of the Committee to Ban Jesus Christ Superstar at the time of its running. I have no axe to grind with Christianity. No more, at least, than most bisexual atheists in my age group. -- Bill Houts (a.k.a. Captain Chaos) Cosmic Color Control tektronix!reed!houts "I claim to be the Kleenex reborn."
rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob]) (03/12/85)
The error that Mr. Houts makes in comparing his Cheeses series
with JCS is that there was an attempt to interpret the Christ
story in another cultural format (R&R) with JCS while his ditty
is an undisguised lampooning of the NAME of God. If you know
anything about Judaism or Christianity you know that God's name
is important. Many Jews and some Christians will not even type
or write God but will substitute G-d or L-rd as an act of reverence.
Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb}