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Recovering Fundamentalists: Odd ducks and Morris The Cat
Recovering Fundamentalists, Episode 111
Date: May 28, 2007
Summary: Jews don’t preach to nobody, so we’re not often in need of toxic religious decompression on the order of Taylor Kent’s Snark Infested Waters or Jeri Massi’s Recovering Fundamentalists.
Howsomever, I’m always glad to contribute a song to the cause, and Jeri selected The Ballad Of Morris The Cat from the collection plate for a recent episode of her podcast.
The show appears six days a week (with Sundays off for football) as a sort of 15-minute daily devotional, featuring some funny songs, some gospel songs and a shot of scripture.
A subdued Jeri, a bit worn perhaps from contemplation of an impending Newt Gingrich candidacy, narrates.
Hope for battered Christians
Jeri
“My podcast is an odd duck,” Jeri writes. “I try to create a 15-minute haven for people who have been abused in really, really strict and legalistic Christian Fundamentalist churches. So I do that with a devotional, some commentary and light comedy.”
She continues:
Some of the commentary involves skewering popular sermons in Fundamentalism and showing how they are not at all based on what the Bible teaches. I’m trying to de-program, educate and entertain.
It would bore most people to death, but I am reaching out to a silent (but pretty sizable) minority of people who have suffered the unspeakable from men who claim to represent God. And I am a Christian, and I hope this minor ministry can help these people.
More props for Morris
Now we get to the good part:
Anyway, I loved your song. The singer is as cynical as Morris himself, but I notice he throws a big bash to send off his lucrative little pal, so maybe he has that heart of gold that we all knew Morris had. I really liked it.
Of course, some of your other songs make my puritanical hair stand on end. But that’s how it goes when you are the female version of Ned Flanders. So hey diddly-how, neighbor, and best wishes to you in your musical/comedy career.
I hope you’ll reconsider that thought, Jeri. I can’t think of a better way to stir up the congregation than with the rousing hymnal My Fat Ass Itches. Maybe next episode?
Silent minority (0:33).
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