S.P.M.R.

Ridiculous. ‘Nuff Said.

“Unfortunately, we do not grant rights for Peanuts to be used in
religious settings.

My apologies have a great weekend.”

That was a direct quote of the email I received from the United Press Syndicate when I attempted to obtain permission to use a Peanuts comic strip in the powerpoint for our Sunday service. Does anyone else see the ridiculous irony in this? You know, Charles Schultz, the former Methodist Sunday School teacher whose cartoon characters often quoted long passages of scripture in comic strips and TV specials, is unable to be legally utilized in church settings. Yeah…that Charles Schultz.

I can get Peanut t-shirts, toothbrushes, switch plates, trash cans, snow globes, lunch boxes, banks, and even a snoopy door stop (see right). But I can’t use a strip from a newspaper in 1997 about the IRS because the United Press Syndicate doesn’t “grant rights for Peanuts to be used in religious settings”. You would think as much as Charles Schultz used religion that religion could use him back every once in a while.

Just for that, I’m going to go out and buy a Snoopy trash can and use it in my church office.

signs of the apocalypse…

Yet another reminder that things are not as they ought to be.