Sons of Tropic Thunder
Remember that sketch on SNL from a few years back with the two teenagers and their bongs? All about getting high and stuff? Or, Harold and Kumar (Cheech and Chong for my older readers)? Remember Tropic Thunder?
What’s the similarity? Comedy? Drugs?
Exactly. Now, take that comedy, and wrap it (exactly how it is) around Christianity. That’s the new ministry of Sons of Thunder.
Remember cheery people saying, “I’m high on life” but not acting stoned? Yeah, how’s about acting (potentially actually being) stoned and saying that you are “High on the Holy Spirit?” Oh, but don’t stop there. How’s about you act completely and utterly drunk and high on stage and claim that it’s Jesus? Sound like a plan?
But, don’t stop there either. Take all your wording and advertisements and use drug references and binge drinking vernacular to describe your “holy” experience. Sound like fun? Want to go to a service that will “get you whacked?” or “blazed on Christ?” Want to watch sermon by Tommy Chong? Because that’s what this is.
Aside from muttering incoherently, calling himself a “user” (of the Spirit, I think), and rambling on about being in two places at once (Georgia and Ireland), there’s not much to his ministry. He speaks of miracles, like being in two places at once, and people seeing out of glass eyes, etc., but he just sounds like a pot head discussing the inconsistencies of the universe and dark matter ions to a pole in high school.
In another video he states that there have been “miracles of weight loss.” What!?
I’m not sure if it’s okay to judge a person’s ministry, per say, but this one seems like a counterculture disaster of epic proportions…
I don’t know if I should even put the link for that video, but… I can’t help myself. It’s a bit hard to watch, but if you can stick it out until the last half, that’s when he talks about being in Ireland at the same time as he was in Georgia. (He didn’t even know it!)
To recap: What the heck is wrong with these people? All of their videos have to do with drugs. They look drunk/high, they act drunk/high, they sound drunk/high, so… they are drunk/high. Sounds like a really great cover for stupid potheads and drunks around the world to have a good time and tell their parents, “Oh, I’m just high on Jesus.” My mom still would have beat the crap out of me. Dad too! They make loving Jesus look ridiculous and say that the rest of us don’t get it because we’re not “whacked” in the Spirit…
Whatever. If that’s true Christianity, I’m not sure if I want it…
Am I the only one that feels this way? Do you think it’s an excuse for potheads? Has anyone seen this before?
