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Green sees red over Not the Messiah
THIS Thursday, March 25, a number of cinemas in the UK will be screening Eric Idle’s Not the Messiah – a musical version of The Life of Brian.
The film is being promoted by Classic FM – much to the annoyance of Britain’s most comical Christian, who is demanding that CFM pulls its trailers for the movie, and ditch an accompanying competition.
Our friend Stuart Harthill, over at Clinging to A Rock, got wind of Stephen “Birdshit” Green’s fury via an e-mail from the bearded bigot.
In it, Green says:
The film sponges off the life and sacrifice of Jesus Christ and this mock-oratorio parodies the glorious music of Handel’s masterwork. It is even billed as ‘a spoof of Handel’s Messiah’. It has the song from ‘Life of Brian’ which ‘Brian’ sang while hanging from the cross, ‘Always look on the bright side of life.’ Crucifixion is not funny. It even has ‘Hail to the Shoe’ sung to the music of the Hallelujah Chorus. That isn’t funny either.
He thunders on:
While pretending ‘Not the Messiah’ is not blasphemous or offensive, Idle is well aware of what he is doing – mocking the Gospel of Jesus Christ. According to Eric Idle: ‘There is no controversy .. it’s only people stupid enough to realise Christ is in the movie twice, and Christ isn’t Christ, so there’s no real controversy… It’s very simple – you either get it or you don’t’.
Stephen Green, looking demented as ever
And he points out:
But Eric Idle is an avowed atheist and a supporter and reader of both Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. He has a song on Atheist Nexus: ‘F*** Christmas’. This is a man with an agenda and a big anti-Christ chip on his shoulder. I think we get it. He is out to mock religion and people of faith; and it’s a great pity that Classic FM has joined him, showing contempt for their Christian listeners.
Green then helpfully provides an e-mail address for CFM’s Darren Henley, urging supporters to tell Henley that:
His promotion of ‘Not the Messiah’ offends and insults you and Almighty God.
You can, of course, use the address to CONGRATULATE Henley, and urge him not to be intimidated by imbeciles like Green.
34 responses to “Green sees red over Not the Messiah”
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I want to get a job being perpetually outraged over the fact that some people don’t believe exactly as I do. Why should I have to work hard for a living when I could get paid handsomely for merely having a tantrum every time somebody expresses an opinion that differs from mine? Maybe Green could teach me the ropes.
I had “F*** Christmas” as a cheery seasonal ringtone on my phone this mid-winter festival.
Green can bluster all he likes over this film but he won’t get his way.
Time for a little xian baiting I think. The more he rants, the dafter he looks. Try to imagine him giving interviews on a spacehopper.
Here’s the link for F-Xmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqfZUX5svCg
One more thing.
Crucifixion IS funny.
http://www.b3ta.com/board/9968254
We need the Greens of this world.
He is my moral yardstick. If he is annoyed then we are doing things right.
But Eric Idle is an avowed atheist and a supporter and reader of both Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.
I love how he thinks these are insults.
Broadsword, Crucifixion is NOT funny…
until you add Benny Hill music..
which part of “not” doesn’t this cretin understand. clearly this is NOT about any jesus, messiah, it’s about somebody else entirely – a poor working class lad named brian. Since brian is nowhere mentioned in scripture (check your concordances everybody…) it clearly has nothing to do with religion; unless of course you are a supremely arrogant fuckwit and incredibly sensitive to slurs not aimed at you to begin with!!
Buffy: you can already be outraged (perpetually) over the fact that you have to work while this smug parasite does not.
If religion isn’t laughable, why are there so many brilliant comedies about it? And if crucifixion isn’t funny, witch and heretic burning must be extremely dull.
NeoWolfe
Darren
Where was Bob Todd and the little bald guy?
I clicked on the bird shit link (always wondered where that came from) and watched Green outside the Corn Exchange in Brighton. If ever there was a man on the verge of throwing a major wobbly, he is it. No wonder he wraps himself up in religion. There’s some real rage going on underneath the surface, it seems to me.
Don’t you get the feeling that one day the headlines will scream ‘Green found guilty of killing prostitutes’?
The even better irony will be when he uses the old ‘God told me to do it’ excuse in a vain attempt to wriggle out of it.
How about Stephen Green – The Musical, then?
There’s a seagull on my shoulder,
And he’s shitting on my shirt;
But I don’t care,
I just say “There –
It didn’t hurt!”
I’ll say it before someone else does.
After over 30 years, hasn’t Green worked it out yet? Brian is not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!
As we all know, the film doesn’t parody Jesus but blinkered I-can’t-work-out-things-for-myself folk like Green.
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Might we see Green in a purple dress allied by some Malcolm Muggeridge type (Anne Widdicombe?) debating Cleese and Palin on a TV chat show soon?
So much time has passed since the release of “Life of Brian” that most people have forgotten that its title was imposed by the distributors, who refused to release it under the original title, “Brian of Nazareth.”
It’s not as if Classic FM don’t do enough christian music. During the christmas season they play endless carol-singing choirs every few minutes, so much so that I have to turn it off, even if there are some good bits in between. It’s nice to hear them catering for the ungodly a bit more.
Earth to Stephen Green – people have every right to pen and perform material that others will consider blasphemous and mocking. It is called Freedom of Speech, something that you have claimed many times that there should be more respect for, usually when your venomous goading at Gay Pride draws jeers.
So is this going on tour perchance? I loved “Life of Brian,” and I think it would be great to catch this one. I missed “Spamalot” the last time it came around.
As for Green, honestly, do these people really think verbal diarrhea impresses us? If you want to hear some really stupid things, turn on Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh. At least Green seems to stay somewhat on topic. Those guys are just completely out there. I never really thought I’d see the day when the brain-dead conspiracy theorists (who are devoutly religious) would actually become mainstream.
This chap has his head screwed on the right way!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSNZ68GKi8
Stephen needs to learn to look on the bright side of life.
I think, as I suspect many of you do too, that he is a ‘soul’ in torment burdened with sexual dissonance. All he needs to lighten up is accept a bit of cock into his life.
Green hasn’t spotted that the life of brian parodies the mindlessness of the followers – It’s about the stupidity of people EXACTLY like him.
God love him though – I really do enjoy his outbursts. He is a national treasure.
Not at all scary like Fred “I’m soooo gay but in pyschotic levels of denial” Phelps and his “Hills Have Eyes” family of mutant inbreds, but rather like the weedy kid in school who everyone (teachers included) took the piss out of, whose subsequently grown up not realising that everyone was laughing *at* him – not *with* him. Barring a couple of senile piss-stained pensioners and feebleminds who like hymns and turning out for candle-lit vigils.
I salute you mr green, you may have the mind of a fucking useless deluded cabbage, but you have the courage of a pure idiot and the body of an awkward lanky prat.
I have just realised what the perfect word to describe Stephen Green is.
It’s ‘prig’. The definition for which is: “A self-righteous moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others”.
I’d say it summed him up pretty well.
That and ‘arse’.
It appears that the mainstream media has grown tired of Mr. Green and is nowadays completely ignoring him. The only place that I get to hear about his antics now is via this blog. The worse thing that you can do to people like him is to ignore them, the problem is that he is so hilariously entertaining that it would be a real shame if we weren’t kept up to date about his latest rants.
I wasn’t aware that he is a full time professional talking head, as mentioned by Buffy, I thought that he was a farmer. He mentioned that he likes to obsess about gay sex while he is shovelling shit.
Yes, a bit of stiff and steamy therapeutic man-love would do him the world of wonders. Such unnatural repression inevitably emerges as very ugly behaviours and attitudes.
Stephen Green’s bilious and repugnant words may deserve ridicule and contempt but Stephen Green the man deserves some pity and compassion.
And “idiot”, Marcus! The THREE perfect words to describe Stephen Green are “prig”, “arse” and “idiot”. And “imbecile”. The FOUR perfect words to describe Stephen Green are…..(Apologies, but being a Monty Python fan, I just had to do it, especially on THIS thread!!)
Nobody expects the barriejohn indignation! Bring out… THE COMFY CHAIR!
We’ve had a lot of speculation regarding Green’s sexuality.
If he ever disposes of a PC then a forensic examination of its hard drive may reveal the truth, as well as some interesting or embarrassing fetishes. There has to be something evil lurking behind that beard. To me the guy just looks wrong.
barriejohn
Howsabout “Stephen Green, Patron Saint of Albatross”?
Gets birdshit and a Python reference all in one line.
“This seagull has ceased to be! He is no more! He has expired and gone to meet his maker!”
Stephen Green must have gone to bed a very excited man* last night, as Classic FM have dropped adverts for Not the Messiah. Naturally, the attention-craving cretin is leaping to take some credit.
http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/Press/press152.html
* My client, Stuart W, is not legally responsible for loss of appetite, libido or sanity caused by this remark – Satan.
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“Crucifixion is not funny”
I beg to differ. This was God’s best idea to forgive the theft on an apple? Or rather the idea of those who wrote the bible.