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Friday, April 10, 2009

Religion Re: Twittify Him!

Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:38 PM

As I wrote earlier, at least one church Twittered the Passion.

Well, eagle-eyed Slog tipper Sam writes:

I was at the gym working out today, and there was a news story on CNN about some church that's putting a Passion play on with twitter. They switched to someone in the studio who was watching the feed, and I almost burst out laughing in the middle of the gym, as the top tweet was: "@Mary Magdalene: DTMFA"

The CNN woman must have known what it meant because she scrolled down as soon as she started talking about it. Anyway, just a little Savage Love connection I thought might thought you guys'd want to hear about. The twitter feed is here. I'm not sure how it relates to that other twitter/passion play you linked, but it seems they're connected.

Sam included a screenshot:

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Speaking as someone who was raised Catholic: That's the most totally awesome thing to ever happen in the entire history of Catholicism. And good advice for Mary, too.

Many, many thanks to Sam.

Update: Here's a closer look and a response from the church:

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Fuckin' A awesome.

Posted by gloomy gus on April 10, 2009 at 1:46 PM

this. is. amazing.

Posted by kayce. on April 10, 2009 at 1:52 PM

This was just posted over there:

via @snoozingdog: @JulannePaulin asked what DTMA was. I wondered too, Googled it, was very dissapointed..don't think sender was part of ...
17 minutes ago from GroupTweet

Posted by Sheryl on April 10, 2009 at 1:54 PM

Wocka, wocka wocka.

Posted by Lily Fluffbottom on April 10, 2009 at 1:55 PM

umm...what is DTMFA?
I'm such a loser.

Posted by gettin'old on April 10, 2009 at 1:56 PM

Sigh... I'm an atheist, but even I find this pretty mean spirited, particularly on Good Friday... In my experience less than half of the Christians out there are homophobic. It's fine to call those folks out, but can we avoid needlessly spiting on the great Christians?

Posted by Big Sven on April 10, 2009 at 1:57 PM

Trinity is an Episcopal church and not a Catholic one.

Still awesome.

Posted by Jeroen Percival Jesus on April 10, 2009 at 2:00 PM

OMG Thanks for the laugh - if only Mary Magdalene had an iPhone.

Posted by WEG on April 10, 2009 at 2:00 PM

@6:

They are still the most superstitious people on the planet. Plus, I still cannot forgive them for what they did to Giordano Bruno.

Posted by passionate_jus on April 10, 2009 at 2:08 PM

@5 - DTMFA stands for "Dump the Motherf***er already." Dan Savage regularly uses it in his column, and I'm pretty sure he coined it in the first place (I've only been reading since '06 though, so I don't know).

It was pretty amazing. Full props have to go to whoever tweeted it in the first place, of course!

Posted by Sam on April 10, 2009 at 2:14 PM

@6 - I am a practicing Christian, and I can laugh at this, even on Good Friday. While it is a solemn day, it doesn't mean you have to lose your sense of humor.

I could also laugh at one of the "Breaking News" headlines on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's website that said, "Satan Recalled by Penguins."

Posted by Sheryl on April 10, 2009 at 2:15 PM

@6 Its just like those fuckers that insisted on attacking Edward and Bella THE DAY THE DVD WAS RELEASED! Have they no shame?

Posted by sgiffy on April 10, 2009 at 2:17 PM

@ Sam: Yeah, that's a Dan Savage original. From the last millenium, I believe.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty on April 10, 2009 at 2:21 PM

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA PERFECT!!!!

Posted by josh bomb on April 10, 2009 at 2:23 PM

Dan is the class clown of the 10th grade.
Unfortunately he is 40something.

Posted by but being an asshole never really goes out of style, does it on April 10, 2009 at 3:14 PM

And who should know better about being an asshole than yourself, eh @15?

Posted by COMTE on April 10, 2009 at 3:30 PM

When they were discussing this on CNN this morning, the screenshot had the DTMFA tweet right in the middle of the screen.

Posted by Jason on April 10, 2009 at 4:37 PM

This, for some reason, reminds me of the old SCTV bit about NASA putting on a production of a Shakespeare play. For any of you ancient enough to remember SCTV. Um. I'm going to go have a bowl of Postum.

Posted by Old Greg F. on April 10, 2009 at 5:25 PM

Dear Paul Constant,

I also find this awesome. Also, the fact that you were raised Catholic just makes me love you more.

Love, Jocelyn.

Posted by Jocelyn on April 11, 2009 at 9:36 AM

And here's the Facebook version of the Passover Haggadah. I never realized before how similar the Talmud is to a Facebook wall...

http://9a4440c5.fb.joyent.us/haggadah/ul…

Posted by Becca on April 11, 2009 at 11:29 AM

Awesome!

Posted by 4f...sake on April 11, 2009 at 6:16 PM

@18 ( i know this was like two days ago already, but...) they totally don't make postum anymore, you have to ebay it now, and it costs 40 bucks a can. sigh. i have half of a can my mormon mom sent me saved for special occasions.

Posted by erin on April 12, 2009 at 5:58 PM

I think it is more fun to make fun of Jews, because they have those big crooked heeb noses and are greedy.

Posted by but it is fun to mock Christians too on April 13, 2009 at 8:09 AM