Another Asinine Comment by Driscoll

Following my last post on Mark Driscoll’s blog regurgitate, oh I mean the resurgence, I looked through some of his other posts. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised when I found a post comparing Jack Bauer from the Fox hit 24 with Jesus. You can read the entire post here, but here are some salient quotes:

At the risk of sounding blasphemous, I would like to offer the suggestion that perhaps 24 is incredibly popular because Jack Bauer is a lot like Jesus, as the following correlations indicate:

Jack and Jesus are both dudes who worked in construction.
Jack and Jesus have disciples and Jack’s disciples have names like Chloe, Michelle, Bill, and Tony.
Jack and Jesus do not lie and can be trusted to accomplish whatever they promise.
Jack and Jesus both oppose evil and seek to bring forth a glorious shalom world, free of tyranny and evildoers.
Jack and Jesus were both betrayed by a close friend who ended up dying as a result of his sin.
Jack and Jesus are both saviors willing to lay down their life for those they love.
Jack and Jesus were both resurrected from death; Jack was essentially put to death to fool the Chinese government and then resuscitated.

[24] is just the type of kill-the-bad-guys, do-whatever-it-takes-to-defeat-evil, macho, alpha-male, action-hero kind of show that our less than manly culture would see as too violent, too intense, and too dudely.

Now don’t get me wrong, as far as television shows go, 24 is definitely better than most, but to compare a killing, torturing machine like Bauer to Jesus is stretching just a bit, don’t you think. But maybe that’s Driscoll’s kind of Jesus - a bad ass, mother-f&^ing, kick evil in the balls, and take no prisoners macho sycophant. And then to make fun of Quakers in one his replies to a comments, well, one doesn’t know where to begin. . .

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