No, call Parker & Stone. This sounds like a basis for a South Park episode — maybe they mistake Kenny’s cussing beneath his orange parka for Words of Prophecy and put him on TBN to “Prophesy Against Obama and Blasphemous TV Cartoonists”…

And when the TBN audience finds out what’s really going on under the parka, Stan gets to say his famous line: “OMG! THEY KILLED KENNY!”

P.S. As you have probably guessed, I fried my brains on a South Park marathon over the weekend. (Who needs drugs?) One of the recent shows in the marathon might prove of interest to this crowd.

Titled “Margaritaville”, it retells the Gospel with Kyle (the Jewish kid) in the Christ role, and (despite South Park’s rep) plays it pretty straight. You see, the recession/depression has hit the town hard, and Stan’s father (not Kyle’s Mom, surprisingly) has flipped out and started a cult on how “We hath Offended the Economy, and the Economy is Wrathful”.

While the townspeople/cultists walk around in bedsheet togas playing Pharisee and showingly abasing themselves (to the point of stoning “blasphemers” who have “made a frivolous purchase”), Kyle (who has somehow acquired a no-limit AMEX card in some sort of promo) tries to talk sense into them — that The Economy isn’t some sort of vengeful god, The Economy is made up of people, and people mess up.

In re-enactments of “Let him who is without sin/has never made a stupid purchase cast the first stone” and the Sermon on the Mount, Kyle, “this Young Jew”, runs afoul of Stan’s Dad’s cult. Cartman makes a deal with Stan’s Dad to betray him for a copy of the latest Grand Theft Auto — 30 silver dollars on eBay — but Kyle “doesn’t give him the opportunity” by making his move:

Setting up in the main town square, Kyle pays off everybody’s credit card debt with his unlimited AMEX; all are free to come. Even his parents and the cultists (including Stan’s Dad) come around to “let him take our debts upon himself”. This takes so long Kyle passes out from exhaustion and is carried away to his room (while his mother weeps about how much Kyle has put himself in hock) where he is awakened by the morning light streaming in the window (in a direct swipe from the end of The Passion).

Twist Epilog: South Park TV news reporter gushing over how the town is recovering, the economy is reviving, people — now free from debt — are working and spending (and getting into debt) again. And “this is all due to the sacrifice and heroism of of one individual! Let us honor him (pause) BARACK OBAMA!” (Cut to photo of Obama making a speech, with halo effect behind head.)

Cut to Kyle, watching TV from the couch, going “WTF?”

Closing credits.

P.P.S. If this doesn’t get IMonk closing the comments…

The kid is obviously being coached by the pastor?/dad? Hopefully people there just thought it cute, son imitating poppa, like sons like to do. More importantly, hopefully this kid gets plenty of hugs for doing things other than screaming onstage oncue.

In the end though, even if it is a close church community, putting the kid onstage, whether for worship or entertainment, is highly inappropriate. Posting it on Godtube/Youtube whatever is even more inappropriate. Sure the kid is cute, but parlor tricks are supposed to stay in the parlor.

If there was ever a need for intervention…

You know somebody is going to translate “ahm gah, ahm gah” to fit whatever floats his boat. Including God Saith denunciations of Heretics, Apostates, Doubters, and anything he doesn’t like. That’s the thing about “Interpreting Tongues”; when the crowd is whipped up like this one, it’s easy to fake.

I went to the link, and was unable to read most of the comments. I think that I stopped on about page 164 (starting at the last page). — Anna A

I noticed most of the “He’s SO CUTE! SQUEEEE!” comments came from women. And the True Believer comments that “ahm gah, ahm gah” WAS Speaking in Tongues for Praising God and/or some Word of Message directly from God were genuinely scary.

I went to the link, and was unable to read most of the comments. I think that I stopped on about page 164 (starting at the last page).

They are scary, partly because the writers are so non-discerning. It’s not what the child is doing. At home or even in the social hall, with a fake microphone, it would be cute. BUT because they think that God is speaking through the baby. (and even putting doubters down.)