BOSTON - Bread and wine turned into doughnuts and beer Tuesday night and youthful pop culture met age old scripture as Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship, a Boston University group sponsored by the Assemblies of God, held its second lecture to discuss how Jesus Christ was similar to Homer Simpson.

The larger group split up into four smaller groups to discuss questions the group posed about the episode it had just watched. This session's episode was "Homer's Odyssey," in which Homer attempts to make all of Springfield safe by putting signs up throughout town.

David Hill, a School of Management senior, said Homer Simpson is a character most people can relate to.

"We kind of like the way he lives, he has a simple life," he said during the discussion. "Homer strikes me as a purposeless person. He wants to provide for his family, drink beer and have a good time."

The discussion looked into the character of Homer Simpson in regards to "finding a purpose," as well as comparing the ways both Jesus and Homer would react to a situation.

"I think that they are pretty much polar opposites," Hill said. He said, however, that Simpson was like Jesus because, "he was always overcoming obstacles."

Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship sponsored this event as a way to mix popular culture with Biblical studies, basing its discussions off the book, "The Gospel According to the Simpsons," by Mark Pinsky.