What Would Jesus Buy? -- Reverend Billy and Choir Raid Mall Of America

http://www.revbilly.com A clip from "What Would Jesus Buy?", where Reverend Billy, the Life After Shopping Choir, and a hundred audience members storm the Mall Of America with the Life After Shopping Gospel during the Christmas consuming season.

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Comedy

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• Reverend Billy
• mall of america
• culture jamming
• what would jesus buy
• activism
• prank
• epic win
• cops
• consumerism
• comedy

[BarclayAvenue1000]

Jesus would buy something out of this catolog, for sure.

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[kellerj0]

@PhantomLyric y r u insulted?

[PhantomLyric]

@kellerj0 I'm rather insulted. I had a whole long drawn out reply but I have this stupid new mouse w/ forward and back buttons to the left and right of it. Before I could hit "send" I accidently hit the back button which too me back to the previous page. I'm at work right now and I was so mad I gave you the complete gist. In a nutshell that was my resolution. 1st, to explain that we don't disagree to some aspect. But I still ended it with I don't like the method. Had facts, quotations and the 9!

[kellerj0]

@PhantomLyric cool. we'll maybe if you can say WHY you think something, you'll have some intellect.. Understand and articulate your beliefs, back them up with logic. Don't take everything at face value. look closer, forget what you've been taught to believe and use your MIND to figure out what is true. This is what being human is all about. Have fun!

[PhantomLyric]

@kellerj0 Okay ( agree. I just think it's sacreligious.

[kellerj0]

@PhantomLyric Part 2: through their wallet. Billy wants us to step out of the stores and step inside the mystery that is the human individual. Generate culture and trends with ideas and emotion, not with products and marketing ploys. Pure, original experiences sprung from the soul not from the assembly line. What is he mocking? What do you think the message here is? Expand on "it's come to his" if you wish. THanks!

[kellerj0]

@PhantomLyric PART 1: By "anything" I mean anything: evoking the ethos of the divine for your own agenda. I'm interested in what you say b/c I consider myself a thoroughly rational person and billy is a hero of mine. Billy, who doesn't seem to align himself with any particular denomination, is trying illuminate, as you have, that consumer culture has hijacked Christmas and our country. Many today try to both find their identity AND maintain relationships with others... (continued in part 2)

[PhantomLyric]

@kellerj0 By anything anyone else is doing, give me an example? After doing some research, I don't think that's what he's pointing out at all. I don't think it's anything spiritual. which is why I call it a mockery. The reverse, psychological message, as I gather, is that "we've come to this..." that the spirit of Christmas has turned into a holiday with its main focus on buying gifts. Why is it bad? Spiritually speaking, believers and non-believers are BOTH abusing this holiday. That's bad.

[kellerj0]

@PhantomLyric What's the difference between what he's doing and anything anyone else does in jesus' name? Billy is pointing out our spiritual depravity, a service we desperately need.

[PhantomLyric]

CNN is a damn fool for letting this idiot on television. This is so sacrelgious... Try doing a "What would Allah buy..." routine and see how fast you get shut down. It's bad enough the spirit of christmas has increasingly become more and more commercial but to get on live news and act like an ass... with a "WWJB" choir is absurd and offensive. And I'm no prude or some straight laced pseudo christian... but I'm suprised more people are not protesting this sacrelgious mess.