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September 07, 2007
It Might Be...It Could Be...It Isn't
Peanuts was usually an alright comic, I think that most of you would agree. The tv specials, too, like A Charlie Brown Christmas. Except for the times when Linus, or one of the other schmucky characters, would get up and start reciting lines verbatim from the bible.
Consider this excerpt, which sounds like it'd be accurate, cribbed from the First Unitarian Church of Rochester:
Charlie Brown: Nine home runs in a row! Good grief! What can I do. We're getting slaughtered again, Schroeder. . . I don't know what to do. Why do we have to suffer like this?Schroeder: "Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward."
Charlie Brown: What?
Linus: He's quoting from the Book of Job, Charlie Brown, seventh verse, fifth chapter. Actually, the problem of suffering is a very profound one, and . . .
Lucy: If a person has had bad luck, it's because he's doing something wrong, that's what I always say!
Schroeder: That's what Job's friends told him. But I doubt it. . .
Lucy: What about Job's wife? I don't think she gets enough credit!
Schroeder: I think a person who never suffers, never matures. Suffering is actually very important.
Lucy: Who wants to suffer? Don't be ridiculous!
Schroeder: But pain is a part of life, and. .
Linus: A person who speaks only of the "patience" of Job reveals that he knows very little of the book! Now, the way I see it. . .
Charlie Brown: Good grief! I don't have a ball team. I have a theological seminary!
The only way that could have been funny is if Charlie Brown had chased after Schroeder Marichal-style and said "Suffer this!" And yet it went on...and on...and on....It's the comics page. The only time Jesus was ever funny was when he was hanging up there and got off that one liner about how he could see his house; anything else, leave it off my funny pages.
Comments
The only question Stantis raised this week is where the heck did he come up with this stupid idea.
Posted by: The Furnace at September 7, 2007 03:29 PM
