Sunday, April 6, 2008
Too funny.
The green stickman reminds me of Bird.
How many objects can you rhyme with beer?
"And do you now begin to see why Christianity has always said that the devil is a fallen angel? That is not a mere story for the children. It is a real recognition of the fact that evil is a parasite, not an original thing. The powers which enable evil to carry on are powers given it by goodness."
- C.S. Lewis
- C.S. Lewis
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Comments on "I Don't Drink Beer":
2. The Ancient Mariner
- 04/07/2008 8:41 am CDT
Very nice. It did seem to me, though, that SCC should have been mentioned in the credits in some way . . .
3. Jared
- 04/07/2008 8:47 am CDT
This is funny. But you know some dude did this for some youth group somewhere for realsies. :-)
4. The Ancient Mariner
- 04/07/2008 10:07 am CDT
Only if he did the "Rock Kids' Songs" one for the same reason--it's the same guy.
6. Scott
- 04/07/2008 12:32 pm CDT
Nice work. I, of course do drink beer for all the opposite reasons. ;-)
8. Milly
- 04/07/2008 4:22 pm CDT
Harsh'n on the Big T Bird!
Not nice!
Hey Eric sup' wit' your bad self?
9. brandonmilan
- 04/07/2008 5:19 pm CDT
the O O O OOOOO part made me spew my beer all over the keyboard...
10. Bird
- 04/07/2008 5:27 pm CDT
Ok, finally watched it for real. That's hilarious. I don't get why the green dude is me, though. ;-)
12. nhe
- 04/09/2008 4:08 pm CDT
Very funny......but I do have an objection w/ the beer bottle depicted looking strangely like a Dos Equis Lager green bottle (my favorite beer)....I agree w/ Jared - this has cheesey/hip youth group schmaltz written all over it......meanwhile the most effective over 21 college evangelists are at their Fraternity parties sipping a draft and bonding w/ their brothers.....and then getting up early the next morning to serve their brothers by mopping the beer off the floor from the night before.......here endeth my soapbox....BTW this if far preferable to lame pop/saturated for Christian radio (post 1995) SCC stuff.
13. Bill
- 04/09/2008 4:15 pm CDT
"this has cheesey/hip youth group schmaltz written all over it"
I just thought it was funny. I don't really get the vibe that this was created for any serious purpose whatsoever (certainly not for a true, serious, "don't drink beer" message to a youth group).
When I was in college, after I became a Christian and stopped drinking, I would drive my friends places so they could get wasted and still get home alive. I've never figured out if that was really a ministry or not :-)
I think for over 21s, if you're "sipping a draft and bonding", that's cool. But if you decide not to "sip a draft", you can still bond, and that's cool too.
Right?
14. Bill
- 04/09/2008 4:21 pm CDT
By the way, I'm not trying to get preachy . . .
This just struck a chord: "meanwhile the most effective over 21 college evangelists are at their Fraternity parties sipping a draft and bonding w/ their brothers....."
While I've been out of college for awhile, and never was in a fraternity, I dormed for two years with a dude who was a big frat guy - we were total opposites and got along great. But, at least where I went to school, I would be hard pressed to figure out how a Christian could have managed a decent discipleship and even a minimum amount of morals and be in one of those frats. We're not just talking about drinking some beer. We're talking about massive alcohol, drug use, casual sex, and - this happened a couple of times - gang sex in the frat house. They jokingly referred to that as "riding a train".
Not sure why I'm going off on all that. It was bad stuff, that's all.
15. Jared
- 04/10/2008 8:36 am CDT
I wasn't trying to knock the song. It's funny and I posted it in my Tuesday is for the Ha Ha feature at GDC.
But it did remind me of stuff sang to us when I was in youth group. A song about "We've got to be fresh bread" comes to mind.
16. Bill
- 04/10/2008 8:52 am CDT
I know. And I'm not mad at anyone (least of all you), but it just seems like everything has to be a swipe.
A funny, creative video was posted.
So, of course, it's not long before comments start hitting in slamming Christian radio, SCC, youth groups, and guys in college who don't drink beer.
That's what we do on the blogosphere.
Maybe all those things need to be slammed. But it just seems so reflexive.
17. nhe
- 04/10/2008 2:12 pm CDT
Yeah Bill, it is perfectly cool to refrain.....though the older I get, the less I understand the taboo associated with having a beer.....I guess being on staff w/ Campus Crusade for 12 years and being required to refrain kind of soured me on the nobility of refraining.....I was in a fraternity at Miami OH and there was all of that - and truthfully, I have some regrets over skipping the fraternity parties to go to the Crusade prayer functions - in retrospect, I'm confident that God sovereignly was protecting me during that period when I refrained, even though I think I missed a lot of opportunities to meaningfully interact with and develop closer bonds with my fraternity brothers....that's just one man's experience, but I think there is some truth in there being "God's protection" in some of our youthful legalistic abstainance
18. Bill
- 04/10/2008 3:39 pm CDT
Yeah, I get you, nhe.
I've, actually, never known a college male who could drink responsibly. Certainly never known one who could sip a beer :-)
Mileage may vary, of course.
I wouldn't consider the time you spent praying a waste. I understand the need to bond more with lost people. I'm not unusual in that I think my max effectiveness for the gospel came right after I became a believer. A number of my friends were affected, some got saved, etc. Distant memory now . . .
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Hilarious!