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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)
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Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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Keywords: oink,Bertolt Brecht
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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."