{"id":715,"date":"2004-03-01T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=715"},"modified":"2018-08-11T13:26:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T18:26:28","slug":"715","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/01\/715\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe God Only Saw Fit To Strike Him With Gummi Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Indiana, a college kid decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoosiergazette.com\/News\/news022.htm\" target=\"new\">wear a devil costume<\/a> to a screening of <i>The Passion of the Christ<\/i>.  In the self-aggrandizing manner adopted by college students everywhere, the kid explains himself thusly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When asked what he hoped to accomplish by his actions, Wendell said he likes doing things to get a reaction.  He was also inspired by a biography he read about the Marquis de Sade.<\/p>\n<p>De Sade was an 18th century writer who caused scandals with his libertine behavior in pre-revolutionary France.  De Sade was once arrested for desecrating the Holy Eucharist to see if God really existed.  Wendell said his stunt was along the same lines.<\/p>\n<p>Wendell, an atheist, said, \u201cIf God really existed, He would have struck me down for dressing as the devil.\u201d  He also wanted to prove \u201cthat Christians aren\u2019t as forgiving as they portray\u201d.  Wendell says his actions were also partially due to a genuine dislike of Mel Gibson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Buddy, maybe God didn&#8217;t see your hijinks as worthy of the amperage involved in a lightning strike and had a more fitting punishment for you:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once inside the movie, Christians began pelting Wendell with Gummy Bears, Ju-Ju Bees, and popcorn.  Management got involved after a 75-year-old woman, Hazel Meyer, poured a 64-ounce Coca-Cola on Wendell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\" target=\"new\">Fark<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Indiana, a college kid decided to wear a devil costume to a screening of The Passion of the Christ. In the self-aggrandizing manner adopted by college students everywhere, the kid explains himself thusly: When asked what he hoped to accomplish by his actions, Wendell said he likes doing things to get a reaction. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22752,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/22752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}