Christian Punch Line

Like shooting fish in a barrel.

A new documentary about Christian Mixed Martial Arts Fighting (a.k.a. Cage Fight) is making it’s round, aptly called ‘Fight Church’.
Lets see…

‘Turn the other cheek’ – Jesus
‘I want you to kick me as hard as you can!’ Jesus II – the Revenge?

Now, you may be a fan of MMA, dislike it, or ignore it. That’s not the point. It’s training fighters that makes proselytizing a religion of love a hard sell. Anyway, the trailer is a treasure trove of fun.

A self-righteous believer enthuses 

this is a battlefield. We need to charge them – not wait for them to come to us.

Hello? What battlefield? Who is ‘them’? Does he think that Atheists are after his blood? Or is he just spoiling for a fight with other religions? No. This pathetic Milquetoast is frustrated that his faith is being ridiculed, and hopes that someone else beats the crap out of smug Atheists – for Jesus! So now they are ‘toughening up their boys’ to ‘make these problems go away’. 

In other words: Praise the Lord, or I’ll melt your face.

While prepping a child for a fight, a priest pontificates

God said “don’t be afraid, don’t be discouraged, because I am your God, and I’ll be with you wherever you are.”

Perhaps. But he also said stuff like ‘Love thy neighbour’ and ‘turn the other cheek’. It seems that testosterone and the testaments make strange bedfellows; multiple blows to the head do the rest. How else can you explain the fact that these ‘christian fighters’ quote the bible as saying that homosexually is a sin – only to ignore what’s said just three verses further down, when god says the same about tattoos, and another couple of verses later proscribes the death penalty for wearing garments made from two kinds of thread?

Well, it’s brawn over brains. Why else would they be stupid enough to thank god for winning a fight?