Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site reed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!reed!houts From: houts@reed.UUCP (Bill Houts) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian,net.flame Subject: Chapter 3: In Which Houts At Reed Defends Himself Message-ID: <1063@reed.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 03:56:37 EST Article-I.D.: reed.1063 Posted: Fri Mar 8 03:56:37 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Mar-85 04:45:34 EST Reply-To: houts@reed.UUCP (Bill Houts) Distribution: net Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Lines: 35 Keywords: oink,Bertolt Brecht Xref: watmath net.religion.christian:396 net.flame:8751 Summary: pture, but rather "revisions" of Sunday School songs I sang as a child. "Cheese is Nice, Superstore" (my personal favorite) is scarcely a declaration ofrabid anti-Christian sentiment. It is a parody (and a well written one at that, should I say so myself) of that (in)famous rock opera, JESUS CHRIST, SUPERSTAR. If you view this parody as blasphemous in some way, you must believe that the rock opera is in some way holy or sacred. JCS was itself denounced by various Church authorities as "blasphemy" when it ran. I can't help but imagine Messrs. Marchionni, Black, and Brown as Co-Chairmen of the Committee to Ban Jesus Christ Superstar at the time of its running. I have no axe to grind with Christianity. No more, at least, than most bisexual atheists in my age group. -- Bill Houts (a.k.a. Captain Chaos) Cosmic Color Control tektronix!reed!houts "I claim to be the Kleenex reborn."