{"id":1676,"date":"2006-12-09T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/12\/christian-vs-christ-follower-1.html"},"modified":"2006-12-09T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T16:43:00","slug":"christian-vs-christ-follower-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/12\/christian-vs-christ-follower-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Christian vs. Christ Follower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a Christian spoof of the Mac vs PC commercial:<object height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8RtfNdg1fQk\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8RtfNdg1fQk\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><\/object>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkchristian.net\/?p=960\">via<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernknight.blogspot.com\/\">also<\/a>)I do detect a note of anti-intellectualism in this parody.  Who needs books, why not just follow Christ? But you have to understand what the Bible says in order to understand God, to fully grasp the message of His word.  He gave us teachers to help us and I don&#8217;t think his gift should be mocked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ephesians 4:11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"tag_list\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Updated to add<\/span>: I thought about this some more and I write about it <a href=\"http:\/\/reformedchicksblabbing.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/christian-vs-christ-follower.html#links\">here<\/a>.<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Updated again<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boarsheadtavern.com\/archives\/2006\/12\/10\/0147294.html\">Boar&#8217;s Head Tavern<\/a> has some background on the video and links to the guy who plays Christian and the pastor of the church that produced the videos.Tags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Christian\" rel=\"tag\">Christian<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/video\" rel=\"tag\">video<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Christianity\" rel=\"tag\">Christianity<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/religion\" rel=\"tag\">religion<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a Christian spoof of the Mac vs PC commercial:(via and also)I do detect a note of anti-intellectualism in this parody. Who needs books, why not just follow Christ? But you have to understand what the Bible says in order to understand God, to fully grasp the message of His word. He gave us teachers&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Christian vs. Christ Follower - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/12\/christian-vs-christ-follower-1.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christian vs. Christ Follower - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#8217;s a Christian spoof of the Mac vs PC commercial:(via and also)I do detect a note of anti-intellectualism in this parody. 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