[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mII6-IyaT3o[/youtube]

I love satire for its capacity to speak some remarkable truths in really funny ways.  Mr Diety is definitely satire and it often takes on the philosophical and apparent humorous tensions within Christianity.  It's not always fair, and often it borders on mean, but sometimes it really calls out the issues.

In this absurd take on the relationship of the Trinity, Mr. Diety explores the relationship of Jesus to God. You can hear the influence of Abbot and Costello's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOXdpO36Ojw" target="_blank">Who's On First</a>, and they even reference it during the skit.

At 2:50 the skit turns to the meaning of the set up.
<blockquote>Jesus: What's the point of this?

Mr. Diety: The point is to save the human's from the original sin and to show, you know, my love.

Jesus: To show <em>your</em> love?

Mr. Diety: Yeah, by sacrificing myself, in the person of you, to myself.  That's loving.

Jesus: Wait, don't you mean sacrificing me to you?

Mr. Diety: Look this is a beautiful thing I'm doing to satisfy my own sense of unyielding justice.</blockquote>
This skit strays at this point from the traditional evangelical story, suggesting Adam didn't really exist, but at this point it doesn't matter.  The skit has shown the tension.  Is God demanding the death of his own son to appease his own sense of divine justice.

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