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  • Negativland is fucking awesome! CHRISTIANITY IS STUPID! COMMUNISIM IS GOOD!

  • The best part is, Jesus was the original communist

  • YES! What I've been looking for! Thanks!

  • I blame Hal Eisner

  • "Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." -Karl Marx

    Religion isn't simple "stupidity." It is a very human reaction to circumstances which distress humanity. We communists don't care about what imaginary friend in the sky you pray to, only the harms of the institution.

  • damnit, i can't find the rototiller song!

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  • truth

  • 2:32 - Is he quoting the song? Is he saying "Communism is good"? Wild!

  • Hey guys i heard this song made a kid kill himself.

    The news said so.

  • no it caused an argument that led to a kid killing his family with an axe.

  • I'm so glad people can vote down jokes they don't get here.

  • it's hard to tell when people are joking or if they are actually upset about something.

  • It is challenging to act dumb enough to make it obvious on YouTube.

  • It's true. I read most pro-media, pro-government and pro-christian stuff on the internet as jokes by default.

  • It was not the song that made the kid kill his family, probably never heard it. The group capitalized on the murder by claiming it was them. It was a lie.

  • Actually I believe Negativland created a VNR (video news release) which was deliberately false, which a fairly large number of stations aired without bothering to fact check. This was to point out that television stations often air pieces created by public relations firms without fact checking them. If you want more information on this, check out the Negativland homepage or do a google search on the Yes Men.

  • Actually I believe Negativland created a VNR (video news release) which was deliberately false, which a fairly large number of stations aired without bothering to fact check. This was to point out that television stations often air pieces created by public relations firms without fact checking them. If you want more information on this, check out the Negativland homepage or do a google search on the Yes Men.

  • Actually, Negativland explains the entire "Christianity Is Stupid " incident on the CD "Helter Stupid". Buy it immediately.

  • Or see Yes Men the movie which is pure genius.

  • I was just listening to a lecture where one of the members of negativland is explaining this piece and how it came about.

    A record was released in '71 stating that by '73 all Americans would be in brainwashing camps to turn them communist.

    It is a christian minister saying those words.

    Also (I think it is Mark) mentions that he never though that he hasn't always thought christianity was stupid, but lately it has been making him so mad what is being done in the name if god...

  • stock footage collages and movie clip mash ups have been totally rendered into non-art by YouTube, but this video is testament to the fact that a good artist can still juxtapose some really powerful imagery... This is how it's supposed to be done...

  • Man Jesus is waiting... Jesus is so real

  • Pray away!

  • Jesus is a joke.

    communism is good.

    this should be like.. our next president's theme.

    i'd vote for him in a heartbeat.

  • Christianity is stupid.

    i'm telling my friends!

    :] lol.

    go negativland.

  • Now there was a subiminal message there somewhere ...

  • No Communism does ..

  • What did Jesus ever do to you?

  • Jesus never did anything to anyone, just like Santa Claus.

  • I like the message of this video.

    CHRISTIANITY IS STUPID!

    COMMUNISM IS GOOD!

    COMMUNISM IS GOOD!

    COMMUNISM IS GOOD!

  • Let's play a game...okay?

  • Hence all the references to commercials and commercialism in the video (guy jamming to the speakers)--mimmicking the selling of religion as a commodity, acceptance into the afterlife as something that can be purchased, religion as a tax exempt business instead of spiritual enlightenment. And who can deny that the 'evangelical right' is doing everything it can to achieve and American Gestapo? If this wasn't the original intent of the song then I still don't know what could be more pertinent today

  • Communism is good indeed. Christianity aint much more stupid than other religions, but that aint saying too much I guess.

  • the jesus myth is like sooo 90's

  • well you'd be surprised (i don't know why since someone has probably clarified this) to know that the "christianity is stupid" comes from a priest...

  • How do you 'vurn' in 'inhell?'

    I've not heard of either!

  • The point being?

  • interesting video even though you totally missed the whole point of the song seriously.

  • Ummmm.....The video was made by the same people that made the song. Perhaps you're missing the point.

  • When this was first released as an audio track almost 20 years ago it had lots of levels of artistic ambiguity.

    Now its owners have reduced it to an un-ironic bumper-sticker slogan for those who hate Christianity.

  • I think the new video expands upon the orignal with visual. Mel Gibson is the new speaker"who spoke up and said",The media is. The "religious right" is the new Communist totalitarianism, the new Anti-Christ, itself. These films represent the Golden Calf, the idols, the face of God which was not meant to be seen, the false, man-made image of God and Jesus, the false idols. Jesus is not in the eyes of Mel Gibson, Pat Robertson or any shitty cartoon. Now there are new levesl of irony.

  • Every time we see another shitty remake of the story of Christ to make money for some rich piece of shit we grow more desensitized to Jesus's suffering, through the eye of the needle through which no rich man can pass, to the symbiotic humanism that binds all of us, all we see is some fucking controversy about gay marriage on Fox News, and we forget about persecution, acceptance, and love for one another--That's the point of this video. It should be interpretted by atheists and Christians alike.

  • At last.

    Heresy you can dance to!

    "Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they remix."

  • This some rocks ;D

  • Easter is Stupid. i love this song/vid

  • Happy zombie Jesus day!

  • Happy Easter!

  • photoshopped, definitely photoshopped

  • lol

  • communism communism communism communism communism communism communism communism communism communism communism communism communism communism communism communism communism communism communism communism communism communism communism communism communism communism communism communism cuba russia north korea china vetnam

  • AWESOME! This video is great.

  • hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

    I guess it's just too subtle for me.

  • Whoever posted this knows very little about human spirituality, history, or culture.

    Go visit Ukraine for a few weeks, and get back to me.

  • Did you bother to read the comments about this video? Did you take the words at face value? Did you not realize that they were the words of a televangelist re-arranged and taken out of context to give a whole new meaning to them? Only someone who is well versed in western culture and history would be able to put a piece of satire like this together.

    Besides, I didn't make the video, I merely posted it. Send complaints to Negativland. Send it as an audio clip, they'll love you for it.

  • sorry... I'm a little behind the times on televangelist mash-ups. But Communism (not as envisioned my Marx et al, but as put in practice) in Russia, China, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere.... sucks.

  • Hey, Communism is good. Christianity is stupid. You are not well versed in Negativland.

    Also, I hear China is kicking our asses in a lot of ways right now lol...

  • -not- worthy of response.

  • lol at least it was on topic unlike some posts in here

  • yup. Actually, it is amazing how disjoint these threads get.

    But you have to realize: I understand you were being -in some sense of the word- facetious, but.... I can't hear your tone of voice or sense your emotional tenor... so if you want to say something I can understand, spell it out 'plain'. I have made the same mistake many times, and been misunderstood, through imagining the reader could hear my tone of voice and see my expression.

  • OK I'll translate; "You are not well versed in Negativland." Equals:

    The whole POINT of the song is that it's just a bunch of hilariously mindless edited samples with absolutely no point other than that *some* people are going to hear it and say "OMG did they just say communism is good and christianity is stupid?!" --And the people that take it seriously just make it all that much more hilarious

  • Ok then.

  • the guy who made this video actually means it

  • satire stone. satire. should i f'n shout it in your face before you understand you idiot? they're not promoting communism.

  • So.... you're saying this is not limp? Seems like it to me. How many times have you visited Eastern Europe? How about the Far East?

  • Ok then.

  • Damn this is wierd..

  • Communism is good. Give up. Give up.

  • Everybody watch this amazing video, it deals christianity a deathblow! Very simple yet logical questions directed to christianity.

    Christians do not run away from this video and come answer it and prove it wrong if you sincerely believe your religion to be true!

    youtube com/watch?v=tWKQioVNtnY

    Replace the space with a dot.

  • Deals Christianity a deathblow? A true Christian does not "worship religion."

  • If you ask me communism in practice is a horrid ideology.

    I'd take Jainism over communism any day.

  • Willem Dafoe may have been a stupid choice for Jesus [and butt-ugly], but David Bowie as Pontius Pilate was hilarious.

  • william dafoe is hot as shit. lay off!

  • Looks like we have a serial 'thumbs downer' around here. Tuff luck pal, 'cause Negativland is great...

  • Hey Funny  Video

  • Classic.

  • i love negativland this is the best of their stuff check out the all in your head stuff

  • "Shop as usaual........and avoid panic buying."

    one of my favourite Negativland songs ( I just love the beat) and an excellent vid to go with it!!!

    Thanks man!!

  • what's brilliant is how the expected reaction of the execution would always be the same. it doesn't take much.

  • i get up early every sunday to watch this one...

  • Negativland needs Prozac.

  • I think what I can take away from this is that... Communism is stupid & Christianity is Good.

    I love the way Christ is shown to be absolutely humbled, humiliated. Accept it! He was slaughtered like an animal... willingly!

  • That is love.

    "Stupid" in rational terms, sho nuf.

    Foolishness... but thank God I'll raise from the dead because of Christ. Sounds "stupid" doesn't it??? :)

  • Yes, the idea that because a carpenter was executed over 2000 years ago by the Romans we all get to live forever in a magical sky kingdom (ruled by an angry foreskin collecting dessert god)sounds pretty damn stupid to me.

  • Perhaps you should have read the comments here to see what this video actually means. You completely missed the point.

  • I have no love for religion but why didnt Negativland incorporate all religions? Isnt it a little biased and seems like a straightfoward attack at Chrisitanity? Or am i missing something?

  • The members of Negativland live in a predominately christian country, and had no access to television preachers of other faiths saying really stupid things (In english) and a wealth of Hollywood films to play with.

  • Religion has been diluted by people, in which there is no way to comprehend concrete facts but to mindlessy believe and hope it is the truth. Do you listen to music like COIL/Test Dept. how did you come upon this band.

  • I first heard of them back in the early 90's, right after the album "Helter Stupid" came out. They staged a media hoax linking "Christianity is Stupid" to an ax murder, recorded all the media hoopla and made an album about it.

    The album dispepsi makes fun of the cola wars/advertising/celebrity endorsement. Fun stuff.

  • Simple enough. I discovered them through the internet but I wish I had been to a performance. I was too young to understand back then. Other noize you might suggest, even though all you need is Negativland.

  • REALLY well-executed! (Uh, I mean the video, of course.)

  • Great, great mashup for a great song.

  • religion is institutionalized hear/say, perpetuated by fear, ignorance and peer-pressure.

  • I could say the same about organized religion. Matter a fact, I will.

    Religion, (Especially Christianity)is institutionalized hear/say, perpetuated by fear, ignorance and peer-pressure.

  • where/how is athiesm institutionaliszed

    how is athiesm hear/say -do you mean heresey

    where is the threat of force with athiesm

    no idea of hell contained in that

    where is this mass of people to pressure others into athiesm -aside from china and north korea

    i am not sure of those places

    not much info is allowed in or out

    why do people like to take up a victim stance?

    there is something about someone wanting/seeking to take up a martyr role that causes me to question.

  • Jesus, LOL.

    GET HIM.

  • I KILLED MEGAMAN

  • very slick. you hit the mood of the song perfectly. The commie marching footage was a good find.

    btw, audience, all quotes from the song are samples from a Christian preacher, obviously being sarcastic.

  • Christianity IS stupid. Negativland rocks. I seem to have a hard time finding their albums, but I still have "Dispepsi" is my collection.

  • and Communism IS GOOD!

  • and Communism IS good!

  • I love this

  • Personally, this video wasn't funny for me. Not for its exploitation of religion and its glorification of communism, but because it shows a person getting mangled and tortured. Albeit my personal beliefs, i already knew from the first 30 seconds that this was supposed to provoke people. With that, it seems that spouting anything about religion would entail controversy.

  • HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! and so forth....

  • you're missing the obvious reference to Passion of the Christ, then, which was just the exploitation of religion and some dude getting beat up.

  • The song, as well as the video, are not about controversy, but irony. The repeated lines in the song are of a preacher during the cold war preaching against the USSR. The video is about the irony of the supposed peaceful religion and their love of blood and gore as well as demonstrating the same hive mentality of the extreme nationalists.

  • you mean the irony of Communists murdering millions and enslaving the working class in order to "liberate them" - from their lives and property.

    Christianity is stupid - Communism is good!!1

  • That's why it is good, it doesn't glorify anything but perhaps the intelligence of the viewer.

  • You don't have a clue...

  • for you dumbasses this is a joke!

  • Hm, you can't bear the truth? CHRISTIANITY IS STUPID!!

  • "It's a monstrous joke!" -Negativland, "Helter Stupid"

  • I wish I could broadcast this 24/7 across San Diego County

  • Classic song!

    Editing is really well done on this, bravo.

  • Give up.

  • Christianity is stupid. Communism is good. I agree.

  • I think it was a rubber christ for those bouncy days in your life!

  • All of you seem to miss the point.

    Christianity is stupid has a 'rockin good beat.

    The song literally means nothing. Its just great music. Why does everything have to mean something?!?

    Its just a great hook line. They are musicians forfucksake. They make M U S I C. Get it?

    "Christianity is Stupid ; Communism is good" Quite simply tranlates as : A rockin good time had by ALL.

    Thats all it means.

    Nuff said.

  • I've always thought it had a great beat; and that the message of the song (if there is one) is that things can be taken out of context in very unusual and amusing ways.

  • That's HILARIOUS, thank you! :D

  • I totally agree, Christianity is stupid indeed.

    But not only Christianity.

    Marx was right.

  • Marx was right about religion, but wrong about damn near everything else. Did the Historical Dialective predict the fall of the Soviet Union??? No... it said it would last forever and the rest of the world would join in. Communism, like all forms of despotism has rightfully taken its place in the ash heap of history.

  • actually, marx predicted that democracy would prevail and that a pure and fair democratic valued communism would emerge.

  • The word "mashup" is so gay. This video is bitter and mean spirited and created by some filthy pagan. The song is actually kind of cool as it pokes fun at communism and totallitarianism - but the stupid video that this woman made misses the point and is blashphemous. I'd like to see this woman do the same thing making fun of muslims or jews and see what happens to her.

  • What does this have to do with mashups? What does being non-christian have to do with overall cleanliness?

    What woman are you talking about? this video was made by the band negativland and posted on their site for free downloading.

    I think your missing the point and BTW, Jesus was a jew and acknowledged as a prophet in islam; so in a way this video pokes fun at all the abrahamic faiths.

    Jesus would have seen the humor in this.

  • Agreed, he very well would have.

  • I look forward to a day when, if Jesus actually does come back to this godforsaken hellplanet that murdered him for being the god they DIDN'T WANT, we all find out he was a black, bi-sexual, socialist hippie who did more drugs than the members of the Stones combined, and hates "his people" for committing atrocities in his name, making such shitty music & movies in tribute to him.

  • Hitting people with whips is stupid, but that doesn't mean we can't laugh at religion too.

  • I could see the "tolerance" thing if Christianity was some harmless opinion. It's harmful, it,and attitudes originating from it, have damaged the world in insane ways, and yes, it is bullshit, debate isn't even necessary anymore. Fuck Christianity, Fuck Islam, Fuck Judaism, and any other ass backward cult that worships invisble men in the sky. Religion is idiotic bullshit.

  • LOL. You are talking about the Same invisible man in the sky there. He's the Foreskin Collecting Volcano God©

  • "Christianity is stupid. Communism is good?" Are you guys so corrupted in the mind that you support a message like this? An example of Communism is Hitler. A deranged mad man who killed people he deemed were not up to his standards. Communism is a government in which you have no freedom or free rights. Good clean fun my ass.

  • Ummmm. Hitler was Fascist, which is a bit different than communism. This video is less about religion and politics, and more about what can be done with words and pictures when they are taken out of context. If this said "Islam is stupid, capitalism is good" you would have probably thought it was funny.

  • Hitler was a fascist, not a Communist

  • I guess the fact that people give this a high rating and can laugh at this and call it "fun" shows how retarded some people are. Just remember watching that. He did that for YOU guys. Think about that assholes.

  • you are missing the point. The audio was taken from a televangelist, the video is all from mainstream movies. Jesus would have seen the humor in this, and would not call people retarded or asshole.

    Nice "Christian" attitude. Thanks for the laugh though.

  • Don't even start that Christian attitude crap. You don't know a thing about Christianity except what you have read or seen. You think all Christians are all goody-two-shoes who can't curse or some bullshit like that? That shows your ignorance. Tell me where the humor is in this?

  • For me, the humor is watching idiots like you spout gibberish, because you don't understand satire or humor. Get off your godbox and let people enjoy what they want.

  • Most non-christians in America actually know more about the bible and christianity than the actual "christians" in the country. I happen to work at a religious bookstore and see more obscure books on christianity, the essenes, and gnostics in one day than you have probably seen in your friggin life. And what could there possibly be to know that isn't based on what I have seen or read? Oh yeah, things I have heard, felt, tasted and smelled.

  • You're reacting. Negativland wins.

  • Christanity is not stupid. The stupidity is to believe in an institution which massproduces the religion. I think this is what Negativland aims with the song. "Christanity is stupid" aims to provocate some stupid people like Mohammad cartoons did.

  • Well I agree with that. And thx for the vids, by the way.

  • Negativland were looking to piss people off with this one.

  • Yeah. Art is supposed to invoke a reaction.

  • i love this. Negativland for President of the UNIVERSE!

  • NEGATIVLAND can do no wrong. the video is both intelligent and probably the riskiest thing these guys ever did..

  • THIS VID KICKS ASS!!

  • HELTER STUPID!!!

  • Good clean fun!

  • Most of your are probably rich brats whose biggest worry is, " Where's my lunch?"

    So no. Don't even go there. If you haven't been there, you have no right to comment.

  • You know nothing about me, and I have much bigger worries the "Where's my lunch". This video makes me smile and forget some of my worries.

  • Its to bad your most likely from middle america, have a 2-3 floor house, and 2 acres of land. In addition to that your biggest worry is "Is my dick to small?"

  • I don't think anyone here should be dissing God because you probably don't know what it's like to be hopeless.

    You guys probably don't know what it's like to have half of your family in jail, a quarter running from police, and too poor to do much.

    You don't know what it's like to feel terror, to feel alone, to want to die, to know that only God is on your side.

  • What does any of you complaint have to do with a song made by using a Christian Televangalists words with a catchy beat? The Video was made with christian movies. Jesus himself would see the humor in it, but you evidently have a stick so far up your ass, you can't see the humor.

  • Just because you think God is on your side, or that God should exist, or that such belief makes you feel better doesn't mean its true. I've been through hard shit, it doesn't prove anything. Nearly everyone goes through something, it doesn't mean there's some guy in the sky that cares about it.

  • awefuly presumptuous statements.

    if you would consider that not only you suffer, atleast you have the comfort in believing that some voeyueristic being is watching you.

    even when you masticate.

  • When are they going to do an "Islam is stupid" number ?

  • This song's probabaly in my top five; although, the video is very different from what I had going on in my head listening to it. :p

  • Christianity isn't necessarily stupid, and communism isn't necessarily good, depends how you use them, whether you stay true to their spirit. And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. Matthew 17:24

    I nailed Jesus to the cross: PEPSI

  • Poor old widow's house burned down, PEPSI™

  • I'm not that contentious a person, not as I use to be. But I love my Christianity is Stupid T-shirt, such a good retard-filter. Scorsese's Last Temptation rocked, Christianity IS stupid, thanks for the upload!! UP NEGATIVLAND

  • Oh dear, Elisabetta. Are you offended? Good. Excellent. It isn't an insult to intelligence, it's an insult to unintelligence. Christianity really is stupid, you mindless dolt. And Christians deserve to be offended every bit as much as Muslime, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Rastafarians, Zoeoastrians and any other promitive savage assholes who believe in obvious nonsense do.

  • Oh dear, Jacktwo, are you blind and deaf? An attitude like yours only promotes intolerance. I have NO problem with people not believing what I believe. As long as they show tolerance and at least a iota of respect.

  • Intolerance of intolerance is a good thing. I, and many others like me, have seen where tolerating religious bullshit gets us, and we've had enough. Time to call it out; call it what it is. STUPID. Islam, Christianity, Judaism: the whole foul, retrograde, , ignorant, spiritually craven pile of filth: STUPID.

  • JackTwo,

    I have no problem with Atheism, anybody can believe whatever they damn well please. But TOLERANCE is important. Calling others stupid for their beliefs is as narrow-minded as a Christian calling an atheist "spawn of Satan". Get it?

  • Go tolerate some arabs in Iraq. They'll tolerate you for a whole 2 seconds.

  • Marvellous. Treats both Christianity and Mel Gibson with the respect they deserve: none whatsoever.

  • (Insert Applause Here)

  • this movie fucking rocks...I get hate mail everytime I post it...

  • And people thought those Mohammed caricatures were tasteless....

    This is just an insult to people's intelligence, I'm sorry.

  • The band only added the background music, the Video and lyrics came from christian sources. Complain at them.

  • Just lie back on the couch, Mrs Rectangular

  • brilliant

  • KICK ASS!