Sunday, April 08, 2007

South Park - Jesus kills the "Pope"

Bill Donohue (pic'd here), the head of the activist Catholic League, reacted angrily in a release on Thursday to his depiction in a South Park parody of the story of Easter.

"I have no idea why ‘South Park’ creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker caricature me as a heartless thug. In any event, I stand convicted and have no defense," Donohue said in the statement put out by his group.

"Now I have to get back to business—I hear someone just took some liberties with the Easter Bunny," he added.

The long-running Comedy Central cartoon show first aired on Wednesday night in an episode that parodied the story of Easter.

The episode mixed Easter and 'The Da Vinci Code' in typically wacky fashion.

The plot involved the current pope and Jesus. The story ended with Jesus cutting Donahue in half with a flying ninja blade

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When young Stan Marsh declares to his father that he doesn't understand the connection between the rebirth of Jesus Christ and the painting of eggs and the rabbits associated with the Christian holiday, he learns of a secret society in which his father is a member.

The "Hare Club for Men," as the story is told, has existed for hundreds of years to protect the secret knowledge that Donohue's American Catholic League and the Catholic Church are attempting to destroy: that St. Peter, the first Pope, was really a small rabbit.

Stan's father and his fellow "Hare Club" members are tortured by sword-wielding ninjas, who are directed by the cartoon Donohue.

The portly cartoon character imprisons Jesus Christ and Pope Benedict, attempting to change the face of Catholicism forever.


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