Offensive Cartoons
It always amazes me how the rest of the world reacts to things they don’t like. For some reason, the mob mentality rises whenever there is an incident that people want to complain about. I guess it could even be when people have something to cheer about. The idiots that go ape when their team wins the big game and riot and loot and burn cars and get arrested right here in the good old US shows that it is not an indicator of locale, religion or affluence. We see the folks in the Moslem world protesting about their Prophet Mohammed being mocked and wonder what the deal is. We would not be rioting and killing people if someone drew a picture of Christ and did the same. Some people would complain and demand that it be withdrawn and an apology. I am sure that the hysteria caused by the cartoon rendering would pale in comparison to what the media is portraying in the Islamic community.
Artists have been doing things like that to the Christian religion for years. I remember a crucifix in a jar of urine and other religious symbols with excrement on them. Granted, that is not our Lord and Savior but they are symbolic of what He represents. The far right conservative groups demanded funding be withdrawn such but for the most part, market forces will drive the arts. No one wants to see poor art and drawing attention to it does not make it worth looking at. But we are not dealing with Christians.
From what I’ve heard, the Islamic faith prohibits any pictures of the founder(s) of their faith. So, creating a cartoon picture of Mohammed is a violation a religious tenant. Now, Christians do not have such prohibitions about pictures. They are okay as long as they are not worshipped. Reference the 1st two commandments. I think that is where the issue comes into play. Followers of Islam seem to want to remove the opportunity to sin instead of being tempted. That is why their women are covered from head to toe so they cannot be a temptation to other men. Of course that opens a completely different can of worms that I will not be dealing with today. By not having religious renderings, they appear to be removing the temptation to worship them. Great in theory but this is a cartoon rendering of their founder with a bomb on his head, not a holy icon that is bowed to and worshipped. It was done in poor taste but it represents how many Christians view of the Moslem world. They are a bunch of bomb carrying terrorists that are bent on forcing their views on the rest of the world instead of realizing that they are being passed by. The lack of religious tolerance dove tails right into their not wanting to sin. If everyone worships as they do then there is no opportunity for worshipping the wrong God. Sounds like fanatics to me.
We sin. That is what happened when Adam and Eve ignored what God commanded and ate from the tree of knowledge. We will spend our entire existence trying to get past sin but it is there and must be dealt with. A religion imposing what can and can’t be done is not doing to eliminate sin. We have the Ten Commandments plus the one Jesus added about “Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself” and we still break them every day. It sounds like it is more a measure of control rather than an actual worship of God. It just creates the ability to manipulate people’s lives. That is power. To quote the British historian Lord Acton, “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Sounds like a form of government to me. Riots anyone? Now get out there and yell and burn the flag of any foreign country in protest, preferable American.
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Cobb
Artists have been doing things like that to the Christian religion for years. I remember a crucifix in a jar of urine and other religious symbols with excrement on them. Granted, that is not our Lord and Savior but they are symbolic of what He represents. The far right conservative groups demanded funding be withdrawn such but for the most part, market forces will drive the arts. No one wants to see poor art and drawing attention to it does not make it worth looking at. But we are not dealing with Christians.
From what I’ve heard, the Islamic faith prohibits any pictures of the founder(s) of their faith. So, creating a cartoon picture of Mohammed is a violation a religious tenant. Now, Christians do not have such prohibitions about pictures. They are okay as long as they are not worshipped. Reference the 1st two commandments. I think that is where the issue comes into play. Followers of Islam seem to want to remove the opportunity to sin instead of being tempted. That is why their women are covered from head to toe so they cannot be a temptation to other men. Of course that opens a completely different can of worms that I will not be dealing with today. By not having religious renderings, they appear to be removing the temptation to worship them. Great in theory but this is a cartoon rendering of their founder with a bomb on his head, not a holy icon that is bowed to and worshipped. It was done in poor taste but it represents how many Christians view of the Moslem world. They are a bunch of bomb carrying terrorists that are bent on forcing their views on the rest of the world instead of realizing that they are being passed by. The lack of religious tolerance dove tails right into their not wanting to sin. If everyone worships as they do then there is no opportunity for worshipping the wrong God. Sounds like fanatics to me.
We sin. That is what happened when Adam and Eve ignored what God commanded and ate from the tree of knowledge. We will spend our entire existence trying to get past sin but it is there and must be dealt with. A religion imposing what can and can’t be done is not doing to eliminate sin. We have the Ten Commandments plus the one Jesus added about “Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself” and we still break them every day. It sounds like it is more a measure of control rather than an actual worship of God. It just creates the ability to manipulate people’s lives. That is power. To quote the British historian Lord Acton, “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Sounds like a form of government to me. Riots anyone? Now get out there and yell and burn the flag of any foreign country in protest, preferable American.
Icool
Cobb
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