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Wednesday, November 02, 2005

The Fashion of the Christ, or, I'm Too Sexy for my Lord

As some of you know one of my favourite hobbies since first year is debating with Campus Crusade for Christ around their various ridiculous events. I love it. It's such a friggin rush to challenge people who are so set in their beliefs. I get so much pleasure when I get them to say "I never thought of that" and I have been able to do it every time. Today the conversation was about the anti-pornography event they are staging in a few weeks where they are having a man come and speak about how porn ruined his life, split up his marriage, and how he's putting his life back together by finding Jesus. They have a ton of posters up all over the University with facts about evil porn facts, one of which is "1 in 3 people who look at porn are women". Oh those ridiculously evil women.

We were approached in the UC by Graydon himself (of last years "Do You Agree With Graydon" conversion campaign) to fill out a survey about our porn intake in return for a chance to win a free ipod. Those private funders are pretty sweet. So we talked about the posters and the intention of the event. It's actually sounding like they are becoming more aware of how to make people more comfortable by giving them a false sense that they are not being preached to. This speaker aparently talks about the evils of porn and then gives the audience the option to leave before he starts talking about his personal salvation. Those bible thumpers are getting smart.

The survey they gave us was loaded. The first question was "What's your gender male or female". Bad. Then there was questions along the lines of "how often do you watch porn", "how much does porn affect your life", and "where do you see porn: magazines, internet, tv/movies or strip clubs". I told Graydon that a strip club isn't pornography, he said he didn't actually know the definition of porn. Ouch. I asked Graydon what he qualified as porn, is it any material that turns me on? Here's the conversation that followed:

Me: So you're saying that porn could be both hardcore porn and a makeout scene on Dawson's Creek if they both turn me on?

Graydon: Well in that situation I'd just say 'What Would Jesus Do?'

Me: Well I think Jesus likes to have a good time!

Hilarious. It was the best thing I've said all day. He laughed REALLY awkwardly. Jess and Leah busted out too. Jess had been stiffling her giggles anyway since he said he was saving himself for marriage so he could "truly celebrate his wife's body". Is it wrong that my first reaction was to try to seduce him?

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

well, he was very cute! all blond, blue eyed and christian. my pick up line is : have you ever wondered what it feels like to be sinful? (seductive eyes and low cut shirt are also in the plan) i love a goal.
jess

2:32 PM

 

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