‘Jesus with erection’ ignites outrage
Posted on April 27, 2006
….but, as Hot Air points out, we aren’t rioting and burning down embassies.
World Net Daily broke the news yesterday that a far-left student newspaper at the University of Oregon — called “The Insurgent” appropriately enough — decided to publish 12 deliberately offensive cartoons of Jesus in their March issue. Why? Because the Oregon Commentator, a conservative student newspaper at U of O, recently published the 12 Jyllands-Posten cartoons of Mohammed. The Insurgent wanted Christians to know what it felt like to have their religion insulted.
Because, really, what would Christians know about something like that?
Anti-Idotarian Rottweiller weighs in:
You see, dear editors of The Insurgent: G-d, unlike some moon god that we could mention, isn’t an insecure, thumb-sucking, powerless little brat demanding that we go burn down embassies and murder innocents to defend His honor. And we, unlike some medieval, barbarian “culture” worshipping a giant black block with a vagina, believe in freedom of speech, even when we disagree with it.
Actually I didn’t care about the size of Jesus’ manhood, I just didn’t get offended in the least about the cartoons and in fact I think in the art of showing differences these types of cartoons should have been printed. The Insurgent printed these cartoons, I suppose, to try to draw comparisons between the reaction of American Catholics and Muslims who rioted after the Danish cartoons, but they will only find differences. University of Oregon students, or some, are up in arms about the cartoons and doing the dreadful act of writing letters to the editor.
As an American Catholic, I am putting together a mob rally to burn down the _____ (fill in the blank) embassy, threatening to behead those who offend Jesus, call for terrorist attacks against the entire state of Oregon and I officially boycott all Oregon products. Yep, that means I won’t buy anything made from wood unless that wood comes from Canada, Colorado or any other of the several states and nations we get wood from.
Yes, we are offended, and insulted, but your liberal scheme only backfires. We hope you weren’t hoping to cause riots. The point is not about being sensitive to other people’s religious beliefs, it is how one reacts when they have been offended. Civilly, like writing letters, blogging, debating the topic, or like a barbarian, burning down buildings, and rioting in the streets?
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This controversy aside, I remember our Universities as producing the brightest in the world, the academic elite.
With the successful infiltration by the liberal/socialist mindset, the Universities nationwide, have been reduced to this, a third grader’s quibble of “my dad can beat your dad”.
$15,000.00(then) to be a world contender vs. $50,000.00(now) to be a national moron… sad!
“We hope you weren’t hoping to cause riots.”
I’m sure they weren’t. This may be difficult for lynching advocates, pro-pointless-war favorers, and slavering NRA fans to appreciate, but not every irreverent act is a call for violence.
As for Christians who admit to being offended by displays such as this cartoon, they are best described by the term “easy mark.” Taking umbrage at things that mock Jesus is a tiny step from getting riled up over someone ragging on your favorite Star Wars character.
Yes, I’m sure that all the moderate Muslims would agree with the Star Wars statement if it were applied to their moon god as well.
I’m not sure why you insist on fervently invoking Islam in the context of the U. of Oregon matter. Do Christians really feel smug over…not rioting? That’s setting the bar awfully low.
People mock things that are dear to me all the time, and I couldn’t care less because this doesn’t diminish my passion for said things. I would think Christians secure in their faith would be able to shrug off a mere cartoon, but if you take a gander around the Internet you’ll find plenty of them who would just as soon stone the cartoonist to death. A Judeo-Christian religion can be quite the toxin.
For the record, World Net Daily did not break this story. The Oregon Daily Emerald, the independent student newspaper at the University of Oregon, broke the story April 21st.
Read the story here:
http://www.dailyemerald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/04/21/44488e02eff26?in_archive=1
“but if you take a gander around the Internet you’ll find plenty of them who would just as soon stone the cartoonist to death”
Links? Statistics? Anything? If there’s “plenty” of them, you should have no trouble. And a blog entry calling the newspaper editors “idiots” doesn’t equal stoning.
Put up or shut up on this one.
Jay, you claim to be civilized, yet just a few months ago you advocated violence against a 13-year-old boy who refused to salute the flag. How are you any better than those who respond to cartoons with threats of violence?
“few months ago you advocated violence”
I won’t speak for Jay, but all that tells me is, you are not capable of discerning between discipline and violence.
Oh…that kid! What I said in essense was that if I were still a young, immature high school kid, I would have probably puched his lights out….not that I would do that now. And I also said that if I were his parent, that I would use some discipline that would cause a little temporary pain to his behind and pride. That is very different than burning down buildings, and the behavior of these Islamic thugs.
It’s good to hear that corporal punishment is alive and well. I was beginning to worry that America’s children weren’t being beaten enough.
“I was beginning to worry that America’s children weren’t being beaten enough.”
They’re not… nor are many of the “adults”.