History offers countless instances of religion enforcing its inane orthodoxy with violence.
Three Muslim men didn't like the way the authors, journalists, and cartoonists thought, so they murdered them. Twelve lives ended. Families shattered. Children parentless. And Bill Donohue of the Catholic League says, "Muslims are right to be angry." Donohue sided with the murderers, condemning only their method but saying that we should not "tolerate the kind of intolerance that provoked this violent reaction" and that it was "too bad" Charlie's editor "didn't understand the role he played in his" own death. Isn't it just like religion to blame the victim?
We saw this 10 years ago when the Danish papers published benign—bland might be a better word—cartoons about Islam's pedophiliac founder. As Hitchens was fond of pointing out, though Islamic mobs were beating, burning, "and issuing death threats against civilians," the archbishop of Canterbury and the pope condemned the cartoons, not the overreaction.
We saw this 25 years ago when the Ayatollah Khomeini—to borrow from Hitchens again—"publicly offered money, in his own name, to suborn the murder of a novelist who was a citizen of another country." Once again, the Vatican and the archbishop of Canterbury condemned the speaker, Salman Rushdie, not the violent criminals.
History offers countless instances of religion enforcing its inane orthodoxy with violence.
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Yes, these people are extremists and #notallmuslims are violent, but I am really sick of people trying to disassociate this event with Islam and blaming the journalists for their deaths.
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Those who work at this newspaper have a long and disgusting record of going way beyond the mere lampooning of public figures, and this is especially true of their depictions of religious figures. For example, they have shown nuns masturbating and popes wearing condoms. They have also shown Muhammad in pornographic poses.
So the real problem is the intolerance that provoked the killings.
He does have a point about depictions of "popes wearing condoms." Popes wouldn't do that. Rhythm method only, anything else is a sin.
While searching on the Collected Dumbasseries of Bill Donahue, I came across this item from May 2012. And LMAO...
(Note to SPIES: if you find this offensive, I'd like to heartily apologize in advance. No, actually I wouldn't. Just fuck off.)
May 22, 2012 by Jessica Bluemke
...Stewart wondered if there was anything women could do to elicit the outrage over their bodily rights that Fox News correspondents typically reserve for, say, attacks on Christmas.
“Perhaps women could protect their reproductive organs from unwanted medical intrusions with Vagina Mangers.” Behind him, as he spoke, appeared an image of a woman with her legs spread and a manger scene covering her …mistletoe? (Nutcracker? Holiest of Holes? Virgin Mary? Secret Santa? Pick your favorite vagina euphemism. Or come up with your own! Fun for the whole family!)
Anyway, to the surprise of no one, Bill Donohue didn’t think this was funny. At all. In fact he called it “hate speech.”
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/05/22/bill-donohue-is-so-mad-at-the-daily-show/#ixzz3OHRQ0ibD
I'm loving the new words I.E. Assholery, dumbasserie...etc you make me snort when I laugh. (I'm late probably, getting the memo, and you have been using these words forever) just wanted say it made me laugh.
...after seeing them elsewhere on the Internet. Or maybe not - sometimes I just make up stuff like that because I like to fool around with words. In the past, the Internet Church of the Perpetually Offended have chastised me for doing that. Which is about the last thing that would make me stop doing it.
Sometimes it's very satisfying to wade thru a 4000-word post with references to Aquinas, Augustine etc. plus the really deep intellectual philosophers like Billy Graham. And respond with a simple semi-grammatical statement like: "What a bunch of tiresome fuckwittery."
