When I first saw the God Trumps cards at New Humanist.com, I was upset that Islam was not lampooned. Terrorists seek to inspire terror. When you allow yourself to be terrorised, the terrorists win. The Telegraph wrote that the people at New Humanist were chickens.
That does not apply to all Atheists. I’m not a chicken. I’ll go ahead and say it now: Fuck the skull of Muhammed with a rusty iron vibrator. Let the camel’s sphincter clinch next time a Muslim goes to fuck it, circumcising the poor buggerer and making him seriously reconsider the doctrine of celibacy. Not a chicken.
To finish the deck where the creators left off, here’s the revised Islam card:
Actually, I found their Muslim card to be perfect. It did lampoon them, though it would have been funny if they censored the whole thing and put a smiley face over it or something.
Comment by Yvette — 29 November 2008 @ 1:52 am
I don’t think they should replace the opportunity for several jokes with one subtle joke. Comedy is about consistency (and timing, but that’s irrelevant in this case) and the flow of humour came to a grinding halt with this card. Also, it gives Muslims distinction among the religions portrayed because of their violence. I don’t think that we should handle violent people with care.
Comment by Rev. Reed Braden — 29 November 2008 @ 2:41 am
I’d disagree. I think the muslim card, while missing an opportunity to take the piss as they did with the others, juxtaposed it with the other cards to make a stronger statement: one is not allowed to denigrate islam because of some faux islamophobic bollocks which takes the piss out of both islam and politically correct fucktards.
Saying that, your substitute is damned sweet, although shouldn’t it be ‘72 inexperienced grapes‘? ;-)
Comment by null — 29 November 2008 @ 8:53 am
BRAVO!
Comment by Ann — 30 November 2008 @ 10:05 pm
Whilst I do get where you’re coming from, if I had wanted to cop out, I wouldn’t have included them in the first place.
The boring truth of the matter is that the piece was based on a set of trumps from my childhood that contained an ultimate trump card and when I came to assign ultimate trump status I figured it suited Islam better than the other front runner (Catholicism)
Full explanation here:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=18983849&blogID=452451263
Cheers
C
Comment by christina — 1 December 2008 @ 6:38 am
*clap*clap*clap*
Comment by postsimian — 1 December 2008 @ 1:38 pm
Is gigantic mispelled on purpose? Just wondering.
I like this one just fine, but the original makes more of a statement, even if it’s more subtle.
Comment by Tommy — 10 March 2009 @ 1:41 pm
No. It’s misspelled out of drunkenness. Oops.
Comment by Rev. Reed Braden — 10 March 2009 @ 1:48 pm