Oh the humanity! (humanselfness?)
John Hearn | 08.29.03 - 2:24 pm | #

He messed up on the grapes though - a politically correct diety wouldn't trample nonunion grapes.
WRY | 08.29.03 - 2:53 pm | #

I think that's why they are grapes "of wrath"? I think.
Dev Thakur | 08.29.03 - 3:08 pm | #

This is really old hat, guys--my college religion professors were talking about "God Godself" thirty years ago at the Yale Divinity School. The parodies were already blooming that long ago, too: The Yale Divinity School had a little "alternative" tongue-in-cheek newsletter called "Eschatology Today" (Motto: "All's well that ends.") I still recall an article explaining how we could nip all this theological "gender inclusive language" debate in the bud with new Trinitarian language--replacing "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit" with mathematical terms: "X sub-1, X sub-2, and X sub-3." Simple enough! I wrote a piece about the demythologization of Santa Claus, though I never submitted it. In any case, come on, guys. If you're going to lament, at least lament fashionably. "God Godself" is about as scandalously envelope-pushing as miniskirts and fishnet stockings.
Paul Thigpen | 08.29.03 - 3:20 pm | #

Guess it takes a while for stuff like this to work its way from New Haven to Missouri. It was the first I'd heard it, although it's indicative of a bit of an Episcopal trend. We had a seminarian at the parish a while back who referred to God as "She" every so often.
Christopher Johnson | Homepage | 08.29.03 - 4:02 pm | #

Mark, I'm not sure I'd call it "winning".

My condolances, Chris. Zach has experienced Zachself the terrible slaughter of innocent pronouns.


peace,
Zach Frey | Homepage | 08.29.03 - 4:34 pm | #

Who can forget the Mankowski "Chinese menu" parody of Scripture speak in whichone took randm words from columnc a, B, C and made profoundly meaningless phrases like "Luke-Acts hermeneutic paradigm". It ran in FIRST THINGS.

But the Jebbies now see to it that Mankowski doesn't write for general consumption.
Sandra Miesel | 08.30.03 - 10:13 am | #