Comments on: Genudeflection

By: Christian (as Name, not Faith)

Christian (as Name, not Faith) — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:46:41 +0000

Just wait until the religious idiots read this stuff – they will immediately call their representative in congress to get NASAs funding withdrawn.

By: Barton Paul Levenson

Barton Paul Levenson — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:42:49 +0000

Parodies are fun, but they can also be straw man arguments. This one certainly is. Do you guys really think that Christians believe Heaven is locally “up?”

I believe God hears all prayers. And, as whoever said, sometimes the answer is “No.” A prayer isn’t a magic spell. It’s a request that can be turned down. The greatest petitioner of all, Jesus Christ, prayed to his father in the garden of Gethsemane that he might not have to be crucified, and he did not get what he wanted.

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:02:48 +0000

@ Angel, or you could go to a site that allows anonymous searching. Oh, they’re probably blocked too… LOL

By: Lugosi

Lugosi — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:11:55 +0000

That’s why when I pray, I also send a cc. That way the odds are that at least one copy will get through. I used to send a bcc, but then I got worried God might not know who it was from.
@ Angel: Here’s a wacky idea: Reserve your computer at work for, like, doing actual work, and visit The Onion when you get home.
I guess now we know why the FAA neglected to inspect all those Southwest planes.

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:27:08 +0000

I tried to post a link to a pic of a “Prayer Amplifier” (tin foil hat) but it went weird. Anyway, another good religious parody site is the Witenburg Door. It’s actually a Christian site that lambastes the whackos out there. They contributed to the “This Week in God” segments of the Daily Show a few years ago.

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:14:51 +0000

Woah! Don’t know what happened with that last post… sorry!

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:13:58 +0000

Another good site for religious parody is The Wittenburg Door. That is run by Christians but is totally lambasting the freak jobs of religion. They contributed the This Week In God segments on the Daily Show several years ago.

Oh, and I think I found your “Prayer Amplifier”:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/7720/tinfoilhat2cy2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://gwally.com/news/000778.php&h=450&w=600&sz=77&hl=en&start=1&sig2=eqcfeb7TISDLwgS9OjKwRg&tbnid=Iw98WmsrRIdx-M:&tbnh=101&tbnw=135&ei=8YziR8OMKImWgAPD86nLAQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtin%2Bfoil%2Bhat%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

By: Christine P.

Christine P. — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:57:23 +0000

Bwuahahahahaha!

By: Sergeant Zim

Sergeant Zim — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:29:14 +0000

“Itâ??s amazing how many people read The Onion and either donâ??t get it or think itâ??s serious journalism.”

Well, when you read what passes for “serious journalism” in the ‘regular’ news organizations (CNN, ABC, NBC, etc.(NOT Faux news)) it’s pretty easy to become confused.

BBC World Service is, IMHO, far above most American news orgs., as is *usually* NPR.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:10:34 +0000

And here I thought it was lack of adequate concentration and a dogged wordliness. All this contributed to my poor self image. Now I can blame the lack of results on a scientifically documented fact. Thank you BA for helping me through this bad patch.

By: DennyMo

DennyMo — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:08:46 +0000

“Am I the only one who read the title as ge-nude-flection instead of genu-deflection?”

Nope, I puzzled over that for a few minutes, too…

It’s amazing how many people read The Onion and either don’t get it or think it’s serious journalism.

By: Angel

Angel — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:53:22 +0000

The genius IT Nazis at my employer, the Federal Aviation Administration, have determined that the Onion is not an appropriate website for me to view. They also blocked Hulu, the day after I first saw it on your site.

I need to retire so I can surf anywhere I want. This work stuff is getting old.

By: KC

KC — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:46:10 +0000

Not addressed are prayers that fail because they’re made by non-prophet organizations . . .

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:35:19 +0000

Makes sense to me! A great report.

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:17:35 +0000

Wait! Instead of a Bow-flex, all I got was a cheesy Chuck Norris doll… well I guess he is close to Jesus and all… after all he did back the Huckmeister….

By: bad Jim

bad Jim — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:43:28 +0000

Actually, I have it on good authority* that God answers all prayers, but that the answer is usually “No.”

*Woodie Allen, I believe

By: Tim G

Tim G — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:21:11 +0000

I like your puns.

I didn’t get this one at first and thought that it was perhaps based on some highly intellectual concept.

Anyway, I had no idea that the stratosphere ended beyond some satellites

To help, I suppose someone could invent a prayer amplifier. It could be integrated into head gear that the faithful could wear all day.

By: Wildride

Wildride — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:32:22 +0000

Not to mention the Debbie Allen Radiation Belt — It’s a really hot look.

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:57:35 +0000

That’s all nonsense, a prayer would never make it past the Van Allen Radiation Belt.

By: themadlolscientist

themadlolscientist — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:50:25 +0000

“43% eaten by birds” – priceless. Reminded me of the parables referring to birds and the “faith the size of a mustard seed.”

By: MandyDax

MandyDax — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:53:44 +0000

A lot of people start praying with “Heavenly Father, hear my prayers.” Does that itself count as one? If that is the 1 in 170 billion that gets through, and of course, God doesn’t receive the following prayers, does that cause a paradox? Will it cause complete reality failure? Oh, wait… “complete reality failure”… I think I have a new phrase to use on the theists.

RATIONAL THINKING: YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG! e_e;;

By: shane

shane — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:50:03 +0000

For some reason I read it as Xenudeflection and thought, yoicks it’s coming back.

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:31:59 +0000

Actually, Paul, I pondered if that’s how people would read it, but it’s not what I meant at all. I was going for the straight pun, which I actually think is pretty funny.

By: The Barber of Civility

The Barber of Civility — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:50:00 +0000

Damn! I bet that was my request for “snow flakes”, not Bowflex”! It must have been lensed on its way to God and gotten garbled.

Rat farts!

By: Paul Kuliniewicz

Paul Kuliniewicz — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:27:51 +0000

Am I the only one who read the title as ge-nude-flection instead of genu-deflection?