Lent special: Jesus, Mary, Joseph (Family Guy)

Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, FOX TV); Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly

WARNING: Blasphemous sexual references, jokes about the most important (though possibly make believe) religious figure in Western history! See Reza Aslan's Zealot to separate fact from fiction.

Look at that beard on Peter!

"Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" is a shocking special episode of Family Guy that could be considered blasphemous. It's offensive and, yes, funny -- but it may go too far with sexual references and observations about timekeeping and customs peculiar to an ancient rural backwater land in an insignificant part of the mighty Roman Empire. More

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