{"id":72835,"date":"2019-12-16T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72835"},"modified":"2019-12-15T17:58:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T23:58:26","slug":"transgressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72835","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Transgressive&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Brazilian &#8220;comedy&#8221; features a gay Jesus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Brazilian comedy group Porta dos Fundos (which literally translates to \u201cback door\u201d) appears to have a real hang-up about our Lord and Christianity in general. Last December the group released\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Last_Hangover\" target=\"_blank\">The Last Hangover<\/a><\/em>\u00a0on Netflix, a movie that blends Christ\u2019s Last Supper with his disciples and\u00a0<em>The Hangover<\/em>\u00a0into a night of drunken debauchery where Jesus disappears.<br>This year, in this new Christmas special, Jesus turns 30 and brings his gay boyfriend home to meet Mary and Joseph.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretty daring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not as daring as a gay Mohammed would be.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wonder why nobody&#8217;s green-lit that? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, yeah.  Christians won&#8217;t blow you up.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not to Hollywood; wanna be really &#8220;transgressive&#8221;?   Portray Christ as the focal point of a western civilization that made your life, and the intellectual (and &#8220;intellectual&#8221;) freedom to make your lives possible.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;d never do lunch on Rodeo Drive again, of course, but you&#8217;d sure be transgressive!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian &#8220;comedy&#8221; features a gay Jesus: The Brazilian comedy group Porta dos Fundos (which literally translates to \u201cback door\u201d) appears to have a real hang-up about our Lord and Christianity in general. Last December the group released\u00a0The Last Hangover\u00a0on Netflix, a movie that blends Christ\u2019s Last Supper with his disciples and\u00a0The Hangover\u00a0into a night of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,26,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72836,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72835\/revisions\/72836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}