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Monday, February 13, 2012

Brilliant parody

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To the Editor of the Durham Herald-Tribune: Thanks for printing James R. Hardy's entertaining letter on February 11 ("First presume everyone who's convicted is guilty"1). Bravo for your astute recognition of his brilliant parody of a frantic religious lunatic. He got the tone just right, and the ignorant self-righteousness. Bravo to Mr. Hardy, too. Of course. [Published on February 152]
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  1. Mr. Hardy's brilliant parody of a frantic religious lunatic:
    First presume everyone who’s convicted is guilty
    In Genesis 9:6, Exodus 21:12 and Leviticus 24:17, God commands murderers of his creatures to be put to death.
        State Democrat legislators enacted a very bad law, the so-called Racial Justice Act. The Act allows convicted murderers to reverse their death sentence to life in prison. Republican legislators voted to repeal the act, but Gov. Perdue vetoed the repeal.
        Perdue and Democrats have sinned against God by disobeying his command to put murderers to death. When sinners die, God sentences them to hell, where they remain forever; there is no escape.
        Democrats and Perdue have served Satan, embraced and become a party to the sin and evil of murder.
        I ask Perdue and Democrats who enacted the Act: Is coddling murderers worth spending the remainder of your existence in hell, where the fire is not quenched?

5 comments:

  1. Morris, I assume you're being ironic and calling Mr. Hardy out as a religious lunatic. Just the kind of reply he deserves.

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  2. Every time I read something like this I am reminded of the infamous "I give you fifteen...oops, ten commandments" scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TAtRCJIqnk and I hope people realize Mel Brooks has just as much chance of being historically accurate as does the Old Testament or anything else written down from hearsay.

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  3. Moto, the OT ascribes two little-known miracles to the Ten Commandments:

    * The writing was not merely inscribed on the tablets; it went all the way through. This left the centers of some letters attached to nothing, yet these bits didn't fall! They were suspended in space.

    * The writing could be read from either side (because it went through), but the sides were not mirror images! The direction of the letters was the same from either side.

    Let's see Mel Brooks top that.

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  4. Ken, which tablets were those? The set of two tablets that Moses is said to have brought down from Mount Sinai which he allegedly broke in anger when he saw the people dancing and worshiping the golden calf? Or the set of three tablets created to replace the two broken ones, and which supposedly really did have 14 or 15 imperative statements, not just ten?

    No, I can't compare the stone smith skills of Brooks to those of alleged divine intervention, but I have seen a ship in a bottle http://haytom.biz/nautical_art/Ship_in_a_bottle_08.jpg and that too is a somewhat amazing sleight of hand.

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