By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Anyone wondering why Comedy Central seems to be so anti-Christian need only listen to a strange interview on National Public Radio (NPR) with one of the show’s correspondents who who reveals it was like to be raised by a Wiccan and atheist while attending a “progressive” Catholic school and calls mocking the Church “pure joy.”
In a shocking expose of anti-Catholicism and the ravages of cafeteria-Catholicism, Comedy Central’s Samantha Bee told NPR radio host Terry Gross that she loves to mock the Church.
“I’m a lapsed Catholic, Terry, a terribly lapsed Catholic,” Bee says. “So it is joyful for me to do that. That is pure pleasure for me, I will say.”
She goes on to talk about her newly published memoir in which she details the kind of “progressive Catholic school” she attended.
“ . . . (W)e had to take a religion course, of course. But it wasn’t just our religion. It was quite inclusive and we didn’t have to do — we didn’t wear uniforms and we had to go to church occasionally but it wasn’t a huge part of our curriculum. And we didn’t have big gory Jesuses everywhere. They were monochromatic so you couldn’t see the blood dripping from the wounds of Jesus.”
She goes on to say that the Jesuses pictured in her school looked more like movie star Kris Kristofferson, which is why she and many other girls in her school had a crush on Him.
“It caused, in my family, conflict because my mother is Wiccan and she became very concerned about me and my love for Jesus,” Bee continues. “ . . . (S)he did become concerned about my kind of . . . my obsession with him, and I did have some, I did have, I didn’t really have like, rock posters in my bedroom. I had Jesus — a big Jesus above my bed. . . . And she found it really repellent.”
After telling Gross that her father was a complete atheist, she said her mother tried to cure her of her crush on Jesus by introducing her to “some other stuff” such as taking her to a Wiccan “mass” which she admitted was “just horrible for me.”
Even though Wicca was very important to her mother, Bee found it “satanic.”
“It was just the people sort of looked vaguely — it was just too counterculture for me,” Bee said. “But she, you know, she made me go and attend some rituals and it was terrifying. I found it just terrifying.”
She claims to have felt sorry for her mother while growing up “because I was so into Jesus . . . I thought oh, this poor lamb of God. She doesn’t understand. She just doesn’t get it.”
She concludes the interview by making the bizarre claim that “being a child of Wicca has not affected me negatively.”
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