Last week, as news of the
closure of G.O.D. reached the public, pundits scrambled to live up to their name and
squeeze one last pun out of the hard, dusty G.O.D. Games pun sponge. Quickly giving up,
they settled on "G.O.D. is dead." We're not sure why they weren't more
prepared for this inevitable outcome to the G.O.D. saga, though we suspect it may be
because they were all too busy thinking up cutting-edge jokes about God's Word to ever
actually read any of it. Hell, 2 Kings 2 verses 23 and 24 give you all the
information you need to know:
Then [Elijah] went up from there to Bethel; and as he
was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him,
""Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!''
When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the
name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads
of their number.
To summarize: A mob of little kids teased Elijah - kind of a
Cooter-level major recurring character in the Old Testament - and God immediately had
forty-two of them murdered. And he didn't just regular kill them, he had them bear-mauled
to death. The primary component of G.O.D.'s failed business plan was mocking God
herself [I'm just kidding: himself -ed.], so anyone with any knowledge
of history is only surprised that the consequences weren't both swifter and bloodier.
Between their employer's name, its offices in an old church, its highly subversive Last
Supper promotional photos, its Bible satirizing press kits, and all the bravely
confrontational E3 Jesus costumes that I'm sure scandalized the powerful "your
Grandma" lobby, G.O.D. employees should thank whatever pan-denominational bullshit
Unitarian false idol they won't admit to praying to when the airplane hits bad turbulence
that most of them got off with just losing their shitty day jobs. If your preferred
method of acting tough is to beat up the myths people create to give them comfort when
everyone they love eventually drops dead, at least pick one whose motto isn't "turn
the other cheek." Pussy. I've said it before, I'm saying it now, and
Marvin tells me I'll say it again: If the G.O.D. people want to really tempt fate and show
some truly ballsy impertinence for once, a good name for their new DVD magazine would be
"Fuck You Islam".
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Speaking of losing your day job, Jason 'Looniboi' Bergman has
left Blues News and joined the staff of
re-reporters paid by Steve Gibson's girlfriend to update Shack News. As expected, Blues News now sucks. |
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