Clearly their non-beating hearts are in the right place:

Zombies vs Westboro Baptist Church!
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/zombies-show-block-westboro-baptist-church-protestors-204613653.html

11:13 PM 9/30/07 · I was rather saddened that I couldn't goto the Folsom Street Fair but other pressing matters concerned me. Okay, not really, but still...

...all this hoopla about a certain poster and some advertising for the event has got me more than a little pissy. The specific poster you've probably seen if you've been following the news (Clicky!) a depiction of the Last Supper followed extremely loosely with fetish gear and costuming a number of sex toys in the mix. I've actually only seen it on the news, with the understandable items being fuzzed over by television censors but even then...what's the harm?

( the poster for the event is nowhere near as offensive as this...Collapse )

The painting everyone is familiar with that displays the Last Supper was painted by Leonardo da Vinci quite a chunk of time after the actual meal happened. Can't quote you the actual timeline but I think there were a couple centuries inbetween there. Realistically the painting doesn't seem likely, according to numerous religious debates I've seen, that everyone was sitting at such a table and even if they were...not all on just the one side.

Leo chose to represent it this way in order to best represent all the people present and important to the piece. It's not like they all posed that way so someone could run around and get a quick shot on their digicam.

I don't see the sacrilige, which I'm likely mispelling, as while it is a representation of Jesus & Co. having something to eat before that fateful day...that doesn't make it a holy work. A religious depiction sure but so what? If a bunch of kids re·did the depiction with World of Warcraft characters I doubt much of anyone would so much as raise an eyebrow.

It's not like they re·wrote the Bible in Crayola!

...and not just cuz it's not in english.

7:39 PM 9/29/06 · Among my recent rental choices has been a number of zombie films; I've had a real yearning for the living dead of late. There's this one thing that seems to happen in the more extreme cases, those films where the zombies infestation spreads worldwide and rapidly, that has this one rather interesting aspect. I don't know that I'd say this happens often but it's come up in more than one film so it struck me as significant.

There's a broadcast, either on television or the radio, or some mass media outlet, where a religious officiary of some note preaches that this is the cause of excess sin. That the gates to Hell have finally opened wide from being overloaded with the damned and these animated corpses coming back to eat the living is our just punishment.

What I'd like to know is if there's something something in scripture (Bible, Koran, Torah) that deals with the dead getting back up and going on a murderous cannibalistic spree?

I think this is the kinda thing we should all know!