Friday, February 03, 2006
Long hard road out of hell
Marilyn Manson tune. Maybe a remake but a google search only produced links to his song, so it might be original.
Bad day for religion.
6 churches caught fire in Alabama this morning. Some were discovered in time and some were not. In 1996, there was a bunch of race (guess which race) related church fire bombings but the article said these were both white and black churches, so it's probably religion related. And since it's Alabama, smack dab in the middle of the Bible Belt, we can assume these are all Protestant churches.
And apparently those wacky Danes are pissing off Muslims worldwide. Muslims angry over a cartoon. Apparently you are not supposed to show an image of the prophet Mohammed, which this cartoon did. But since this is still the free world, we love our freedom of speech and so other papers have picked up the cartoon and ran it. So Muslims worldwide are rioting and burning Danish flags. Haven't they ever heard that there's no such thing as bad publicity? Look at Jesus. His image is everywhere. White Jesus, black Jesus, skateboarding Jesus; He's very high profile. And no one knows what he really looks like anyway. Which I assume is also the case with Mohammed. So theoretically any representation of Mohammed is forbidden?
OK, I found it. No offense intended to any Muslims, but this is how the world works. It's freedom of speech. And just so the Muslims don't feel singled out, I also present Jesus, Buddha and Vishnu cartoons or pictures.
Edit: I just wanted to say a little more on this topic. I don't find the cartoon below funny. In fact, it's quite offensive. Any civilized person should know that true Islam teaches peace and tolerance. It's when the message gets into the hands of power-hungry lunies (Osama Bin Laden, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, etc...) that the true message of religion gets distorted and abused. There is actual a passage in the Bible that roughly says "Be wary of false prophets who act in my name." But no one ever talks about that one. I'll try and find it tonight if I remember, it's in the NT somewhere.
BUT, the freedom to say what you want, no matter who it offends, is one of the most important rights that us humans have. And when you start telling people what they can and cannot say, that's just dangerous.
This is the Mohammed cartoon. Sure it's distasteful and insulting to show the prophet of an entire religion as a terrorist, but it's a protected right.
This is a Jesus cartoon by Gerhard Haderer. His book is actually banned from Greece for 20 years. Wow.
A Buddha cartoon from www.cartoonstock.com.
An image of Vishnu, a Hindu goddess.
So this has been my daily expression of freedom of speech. Thank you. I'll get to those other posts later.
Bad day for religion.
6 churches caught fire in Alabama this morning. Some were discovered in time and some were not. In 1996, there was a bunch of race (guess which race) related church fire bombings but the article said these were both white and black churches, so it's probably religion related. And since it's Alabama, smack dab in the middle of the Bible Belt, we can assume these are all Protestant churches.
And apparently those wacky Danes are pissing off Muslims worldwide. Muslims angry over a cartoon. Apparently you are not supposed to show an image of the prophet Mohammed, which this cartoon did. But since this is still the free world, we love our freedom of speech and so other papers have picked up the cartoon and ran it. So Muslims worldwide are rioting and burning Danish flags. Haven't they ever heard that there's no such thing as bad publicity? Look at Jesus. His image is everywhere. White Jesus, black Jesus, skateboarding Jesus; He's very high profile. And no one knows what he really looks like anyway. Which I assume is also the case with Mohammed. So theoretically any representation of Mohammed is forbidden?
OK, I found it. No offense intended to any Muslims, but this is how the world works. It's freedom of speech. And just so the Muslims don't feel singled out, I also present Jesus, Buddha and Vishnu cartoons or pictures.
Edit: I just wanted to say a little more on this topic. I don't find the cartoon below funny. In fact, it's quite offensive. Any civilized person should know that true Islam teaches peace and tolerance. It's when the message gets into the hands of power-hungry lunies (Osama Bin Laden, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, etc...) that the true message of religion gets distorted and abused. There is actual a passage in the Bible that roughly says "Be wary of false prophets who act in my name." But no one ever talks about that one. I'll try and find it tonight if I remember, it's in the NT somewhere.
BUT, the freedom to say what you want, no matter who it offends, is one of the most important rights that us humans have. And when you start telling people what they can and cannot say, that's just dangerous.
This is the Mohammed cartoon. Sure it's distasteful and insulting to show the prophet of an entire religion as a terrorist, but it's a protected right.
This is a Jesus cartoon by Gerhard Haderer. His book is actually banned from Greece for 20 years. Wow.
A Buddha cartoon from www.cartoonstock.com.
An image of Vishnu, a Hindu goddess.
So this has been my daily expression of freedom of speech. Thank you. I'll get to those other posts later.
# posted by Seth @ 11:05 AM 
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