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	<title>Comments on: Gimme That Christian Side Hug!</title>
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		<title>By: Jugulum</title>
		<link>http://www.jewlicious.com/2009/11/gimme-that-christian-side-hug/comment-page-1/#comment-1416626</link>
		<dc:creator>Jugulum</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m a Christian... I laughed as soon as I saw the title of the video.  I assumed it would be the self-deprecating satire it turned out to be.

It&#039;s not supposed to be high art; it&#039;s a skit.  It&#039;s awesomely bad.  Or just bad.  Or awesome.  I can&#039;t decide.


At any rate, as a point of clarification:  The side hug isn&#039;t about avoiding accidental crotch grazing.  It&#039;s about something else.  Imagine a front hug with a full-figured woman, where she doesn&#039;t lean forward at all.  The average teen boy is going to like it.  (Or feel incredibly awkward, if it&#039;s a female relative.)

The side-hug is the next step past intentionally leaning into a hug.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m a Christian&#8230; I laughed as soon as I saw the title of the video.  I assumed it would be the self-deprecating satire it turned out to be.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not supposed to be high art; it&#8217;s a skit.  It&#8217;s awesomely bad.  Or just bad.  Or awesome.  I can&#8217;t decide.</p>
<p>At any rate, as a point of clarification:  The side hug isn&#8217;t about avoiding accidental crotch grazing.  It&#8217;s about something else.  Imagine a front hug with a full-figured woman, where she doesn&#8217;t lean forward at all.  The average teen boy is going to like it.  (Or feel incredibly awkward, if it&#8217;s a female relative.)</p>
<p>The side-hug is the next step past intentionally leaning into a hug.</p>
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		<title>By: R.C.</title>
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		<dc:creator>R.C.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Folks, you&#039;ve been had. Check out the statement by the songwriter...uh, rap-writer. Or even the lyrics.

It&#039;s a joke; it&#039;s poking fun. (Not least at folks who&#039;d be so out-of-touch with how Christians actually think, so absorbed by the mainstream caricatures of Christians, as to think it was serious.)

Hence all the &quot;rough rider&quot; references and other forms of tweaking.

Personally, I thought the dead giveaway that this was none-too-serious was that the Darth Vader Imperial March music was being played slo-mo in the background. A serious statement of systematic theology this ain&#039;t.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Folks, you&#8217;ve been had. Check out the statement by the songwriter&#8230;uh, rap-writer. Or even the lyrics.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a joke; it&#8217;s poking fun. (Not least at folks who&#8217;d be so out-of-touch with how Christians actually think, so absorbed by the mainstream caricatures of Christians, as to think it was serious.)</p>
<p>Hence all the &#8220;rough rider&#8221; references and other forms of tweaking.</p>
<p>Personally, I thought the dead giveaway that this was none-too-serious was that the Darth Vader Imperial March music was being played slo-mo in the background. A serious statement of systematic theology this ain&#8217;t.</p>
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		<title>By: froylein</title>
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		<dc:creator>froylein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Or the parting of the Red Sea! Oh wait...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Or the parting of the Red Sea! Oh wait&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: ck</title>
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		<dc:creator>ck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It was a joke? Like virgin birth, the inquisition, Vatican 2 and Papal infallibility?

Oh those Christians! They get me EVERY time!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was a joke? Like virgin birth, the inquisition, Vatican 2 and Papal infallibility?</p>
<p>Oh those Christians! They get me EVERY time!</p>
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		<title>By: JP</title>
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		<dc:creator>JP</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>may they were referring to Roughrider as a Canadian Football Team..
See nothing to do with sex..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>may they were referring to Roughrider as a Canadian Football Team..<br />
See nothing to do with sex..</p>
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		<title>By: AM</title>
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		<dc:creator>AM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It was a joke.. Thinkin you got owned CK</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was a joke.. Thinkin you got owned CK</p>
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		<title>By: xisnotx</title>
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		<dc:creator>xisnotx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rap video was a spoof, writer/performer says
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-talk-christian-side-hugnov30,0,6899998.column</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rap video was a spoof, writer/performer says<br />
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		<title>By: Tom Morrissey</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tom Morrissey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s &#039;sign of peace&#039;, froylein-- which used to involve touching until our local cardinal banned that for fear  of H1N1.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s &#8217;sign of peace&#8217;, froylein&#8211; which used to involve touching until our local cardinal banned that for fear  of H1N1.</p>
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		<title>By: Allah</title>
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		<dc:creator>Allah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Eh, Israel shall fail, you need plastic surgery for your huge nose hahaha. Pigs.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eh, Israel shall fail, you need plastic surgery for your huge nose hahaha. Pigs.</p>
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		<title>By: froylein</title>
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		<dc:creator>froylein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh my, kids, don&#039;t be so serious. You cannot beat me at that anyway, so here goes:

Are there Christian denominations hostile to sexuality and perceived possibly sexual behavior? Yes, there are. Puritans in the Old World would not hang up curtains in front of their windows so everybody could see they weren&#039;t doing anything improper. The &quot;True Love Waits&quot;-movement has its roots in American Puritanism. 
Are there Jewish branches of affiliation with a similar outlook on interaction between sexes? Yes, there are. Ironically enough, they established those hard lines under the Puritan American influence. 
Are there males that get sexually aroused from hugs? Not going into details here, but yes, there are.
Is all of Christianity hostile to sexuality and intimacy? No, it isn&#039;t. Not by a far cry. The brotherly kiss was not a Communist invention. Christians would do this when the liturgy asked them to give each other a symbol / gesture of peace reconciliation (Tom, what&#039;s the exact phrase in English?) long before it became customary to have seperate sex seating in church (now not customary anymore except for in more traditional congregations). Nowadays, the common practice is to shake hands and wish the other person that peace shall be with them.

I was amused by that video, satire or whatnot just as I get amused by what my ultra-Orthodox friends listen to. It&#039;s not always easy to tell what&#039;s satire or what&#039;s so absurd that it&#039;s real-life satire.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh my, kids, don&#8217;t be so serious. You cannot beat me at that anyway, so here goes:</p>
<p>Are there Christian denominations hostile to sexuality and perceived possibly sexual behavior? Yes, there are. Puritans in the Old World would not hang up curtains in front of their windows so everybody could see they weren&#8217;t doing anything improper. The &#8220;True Love Waits&#8221;-movement has its roots in American Puritanism.<br />
Are there Jewish branches of affiliation with a similar outlook on interaction between sexes? Yes, there are. Ironically enough, they established those hard lines under the Puritan American influence.<br />
Are there males that get sexually aroused from hugs? Not going into details here, but yes, there are.<br />
Is all of Christianity hostile to sexuality and intimacy? No, it isn&#8217;t. Not by a far cry. The brotherly kiss was not a Communist invention. Christians would do this when the liturgy asked them to give each other a symbol / gesture of peace reconciliation (Tom, what&#8217;s the exact phrase in English?) long before it became customary to have seperate sex seating in church (now not customary anymore except for in more traditional congregations). Nowadays, the common practice is to shake hands and wish the other person that peace shall be with them.</p>
<p>I was amused by that video, satire or whatnot just as I get amused by what my ultra-Orthodox friends listen to. It&#8217;s not always easy to tell what&#8217;s satire or what&#8217;s so absurd that it&#8217;s real-life satire.</p>
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