FOUSESQUAWK: "We Con the World"

Saturday, June 5, 2010

"We Con the World"

This video has gone viral, so if you have not yet seen it, here it is. Enjoy,

8 comments:

Unknown said...: I hadn't seen this. Although I think it might just be a little bit offensive, I can't stop laughing. Thanks Gary.; June 5, 2010 at 12:16 PM
Gary Fouse said...: Jodi,

Yes, I was not comfortable with the reference to Allah, but after all, it's the same God Jews and Christians worship, so I went with it.; June 5, 2010 at 12:53 PM
Ingrid said...: Gary, Christians, Jews and Arabs do NOT worship the same God. It's exactly that ignorance that makes me wonder why you call yourself a Christian.; June 5, 2010 at 2:33 PM
Siarlys Jenkins said...: Not bad. Not perfectly accurate, but good satire, humorous, amusing, and enough truth to it to score a point.

I also enjoyed the parody on the original, which never went viral:

We like the words
Cause we are liberals
We've got the cash to sit around and dream
So let's keep dreaming.
It's no choice we're making
Thank God its not our lives,
Let's hope we never have to make
That kind of choice.

Also something about

At least starving people
Around the world will know
That we discuss their fate over lunch.

There seems little doubt that some of the people involved are not merely concerned for people who live in Gaza, but anxious to be of service to Hamas. One of those photos you posted, Haniyah had a look on his face that said "My, what a bevy of useful idiots."; June 5, 2010 at 2:51 PM
Gary Fouse said...: Ingrid,

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that we have different ideas about the nature of God.; June 6, 2010 at 7:48 AM
Lance Christian Johnson said...: I'm going to have to side with Gary on this one. Jews, Christians, and Muslims all believe in the same creator-god, but their respective mythologies go off in different directions. Still, all three religions have the Adam and Eve story, the covenant with Abraham, the Exodus of Moses, etcetera. Muslims even venerate Jesus as an important prophet, but they do not accept him as God/Son of God. (They even believe in his return!)

When you trace the god of all three religions back far enough, you wind up with the same deity. It's not like their gods are completely different like Odin is from Zeus or something like that.; June 6, 2010 at 10:43 AM
Siarlys Jenkins said...: To me, the first question as to whether we "worship the same God" is, how many gods are there?

If you are a monotheist, there is only one God. If you worship one God, it cannot be a different God than anyone else who worships one God is worshipping, because there is only one.

Secondary question, is your god a graven image, the work of men's hands? If so, then it is not The One God.

There is no question that the Arabic al-Lah means "The God." Christians who speak and write in Arabic use precisly that wording, because there is no other in the Arabic language. During pagan times there were lahs (plural -- I don't know how to form the plural in Arabic). Islam, like other monotheistic religions, worships al-Lah, The God.

I differ from Lance only in that he traces the stories and/or mythologies back to their beginning, whereas, I start with the assumption that God is God, no matter what our stories are. That leads me to the same conclusion: we disagree about the same creator God. I expect we will ALL be surprised when we get to the other side.; June 7, 2010 at 1:33 PM
Lance Christian Johnson said...: I expect we will ALL be surprised when we get to the other side.

Unless I'm right, of course. Then we will all be nothing. It stinks, because that means I don't get to rub it in anybody's face.; June 8, 2010 at 10:09 AM