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Goodbye, Children!

Isaac Hayes, long-time voice of Chef on "South Park" and practicing Scientologist, has quit the show because of its parody of Scientology (an episode entitled "Trapped in the Closet") that aired last fall.

"There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs of others begins," Hayes said in a statement.

"As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices."

Fans of the show will remember several amusing - if merciless - religious parodies from the show's archives:

• The Super Best Friends, in which Jesus, Muhammad (who is *gasp* depicted), Krishna, Buddha, Joseph Smith, Lao Tsu, and Moses team up to battle street magician David Blaine (fictionalized as the founder of the Blainetology cult).
• Red Hot Catholic Love, in which the Catholic Church conspires en masse to molest young boys.
• Probably, in which it's conjectured that only Mormons can get into Heaven.
• Jewbilee, in which we learn that Moses is fueled by camp-made macaroni pictures.
• The Spirit of Christmas, the series pilot (now 10 years in the can) which featured a lewd, violent death match between Jesus and Santa Claus

Not to mention Chef's own brand of theology, offered in the episode Kenny Dies:

Stan: Why would God let Kenny die, Chef? Why? Kenny's my friend. Why can't God take someone else's friend?
Chef: Stan, sometimes God takes those closest to us, because it makes him feel better about himself. He is a very vengeful God, Stan. He's all pissed off about something we did thousands of years ago. He just can't get over it, so he doesn't care who he takes. Children, puppies, it don't matter to him, so long as it makes us sad. Do you understand?
Stan: But then, why does God give us anything to start with?
Chef: Well, look at it this way: if you want to make a baby cry, first you give it a lollipop. Then you take it away. If you never give it a lollipop to begin with, then you would have nothin' to cry about. That's like God, who gives us life and love and help just so that he can tear it all away and make us cry, so he can drink the sweet milk of our tears. You see, it's our tears, Stan, that give God his great power.

I would seem that Hayes is not without a sense of humor when it comes to religion.  Unless of course it's his religion.

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Goodbye, Children!

Isaac Hayes, long-time voice of Chef on "South Park" and practicing Scientologist, has quit the show because of its parody of Scientology (an episode entitled "Trapped in the Closet") that aired last fall.

"There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs of others begins," Hayes said in a statement.

"As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices."

Fans of the show will remember several amusing - if merciless - religious parodies from the show's archives:

• The Super Best Friends, in which Jesus, Muhammad (who is *gasp* depicted), Krishna, Buddha, Joseph Smith, Lao Tsu, and Moses team up to battle street magician David Blaine (fictionalized as the founder of the Blainetology cult).
• Red Hot Catholic Love, in which the Catholic Church conspires en masse to molest young boys.
• Probably, in which it's conjectured that only Mormons can get into Heaven.
• Jewbilee, in which we learn that Moses is fueled by camp-made macaroni pictures.
• The Spirit of Christmas, the series pilot (now 10 years in the can) which featured a lewd, violent death match between Jesus and Santa Claus

Not to mention Chef's own brand of theology, offered in the episode Kenny Dies:

Stan: Why would God let Kenny die, Chef? Why? Kenny's my friend. Why can't God take someone else's friend?
Chef: Stan, sometimes God takes those closest to us, because it makes him feel better about himself. He is a very vengeful God, Stan. He's all pissed off about something we did thousands of years ago. He just can't get over it, so he doesn't care who he takes. Children, puppies, it don't matter to him, so long as it makes us sad. Do you understand?
Stan: But then, why does God give us anything to start with?
Chef: Well, look at it this way: if you want to make a baby cry, first you give it a lollipop. Then you take it away. If you never give it a lollipop to begin with, then you would have nothin' to cry about. That's like God, who gives us life and love and help just so that he can tear it all away and make us cry, so he can drink the sweet milk of our tears. You see, it's our tears, Stan, that give God his great power.

I would seem that Hayes is not without a sense of humor when it comes to religion.  Unless of course it's his religion.

Previously:  South Park Conservatives

Elsewhere:  GOP Bloggers