Comedian Sarah Silverman, 45, thought she was being funny when she greeted her 7.5 million Twitter followers on Christmas Day by saying that Jesus Christ was "gender fluid," but she could not have been more wrong.
"MERRY CHRISTMAS! Jesus was gender fluid!" she wrote on her Twitter account (@SarahKSilverman).
Urbandictionary.com defined gender fluid as a "gender identity best described as a dynamic mix of boy and girl. A person who is gender fluid may always feel like a mix of the two traditional genders, but may feel more boy some days, and more girl other days. Being gender fluid has nothing to do with which set of genitalia one has, nor their sexual orientation."
Just a few days before making that controversial tweet, Silverman already started a debate when she stated that there really isn't any life after death, so it's best if people make the most out of their lives now. "There's no beforelife & there's no afterlife. So be brave & love each other & make it count, Babies, 'cause this is it," she said.
Her followers begged to differ, and offered their prayers that the comedian will realize the truth soon. "You'll learn the truth about Christ on one side of life or the other. I pray it's on this side. Merry Christmas. Praying 4U," tweets one.
Others weren't as nice and understanding with their replies. "Why don't you just say I hate all Christians? That's got to be the edgiest of all, and that's your whole reason for being," says another.
"Christians 'turn the other cheek.' Easy to make 'jokes' about their religion. Take a stab at Islam and Mohammed, THAT'S edgy," someone else comments.
Silverman was raised Jewish, and throughout the years, the comedian has taken several swipes against Christianity and even promoted abortion. Despite these, Silverman has said that she has nothing against Christians, only those who use God's teaching to promote selfish agendas.
"I love the symbol of Jesus," she told the Rolling Stone. "It's so odd to me that so many people on the far right use his name to justify terrible things that I can't imagine he'd approve of."
