Hey, At Least They Didn’t Behead the CEO of Hershey’s.
A New York art gallery decides to celebrate Easter by displaying a life-sized, naked, crucified Jesus, complete with life-sized naughty bits fully exposed. Bill Donohue and a bunch of other Christian folks decide that’s ever the teeniest bit sacreligious and raise a stink about it. The Gallery decided to pull down the exhibit.
End of story, right? I mean, it’s not as if the media outlets decided not to show Choccy Jesus out of deep sensitivity for the feelings of Christians. Michelle Malkin notes how many of them decided it was good photo fodder. And it’s not like Christians of every stripe took to the streets, burned down buildings, and drive the artist into hiding with hundreds of thousands of death threats. Nor did ministers speak from their pulpits about how it was the duty of every Christian to kill anyone to displayed so much as a photo of the sculpture. Rusty Shackleford shows us how that played out not very long ago when it was another religious figure and another religion involved.
Nevertheless, the left is out in force. Via Memeorandum, we get a good look at the sort of tolerance the left displays these days for a religion not involving Allah.
I wish some days that these folks would actually make an attempt to demonstrate the same tolerance they demand of everyone else. I wish they’d draw some sort of line in their minds between vocal outrage and the outrage that lights a dozen cities around the world on fire. I wish they’d be a little less sanctimonious about other folks’ sanctimony. And while I’m wishing for all that, I also wish for a pony. I mean, why not shoot for the moon?
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Category: Gimme that Old Time Religion, Moonbat Nonsense
Righties were upset about the violence of the protests against the Mohammed cartoons, for sure, but they were also upset about the mere fact of the protest, no? Assuming my recollection is correct, I don’t see how proponents of that position have any leg to stand on here.
A good point of reference for a comparison of liberal attitudes vis-a-vis representations of Jesus and Mohammed isn’t the Danish cartoons (not art, clearly just out to provoke), but the German play in which Mohammed is beheaded. That’s legitimate thee-a-ter, and uses iconoclastic imagery. IIRC, the left supported the show.
jpe, your recollection is not correct. Folks on the right did not have a problem with their protesting the Mohammed cartoons at all. They had a problem not merely with the violence but also with the demand that such things are beyond the pale and must never be allowed to happen by government edict.
The Mohammed cartoon protesters were demanding a government restriction of free speech rights using violence and the threat of more violence to get what they wanted. And in a lot of places in Europe, they got what they wanted.
In the case of the German play, the left decided to cherrypick what art they decided to support, just as you do. I wonder if the representation of Mohammed had been the only one on the stage beheaded, if the left would have been quite as sanguine. I suspect not.
It’s easy to pick on Christians. They don’t drag you out of your house and cut off your head when you mock their religions.