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To: Neocon who wrote (3766)3/20/2002 8:01:03 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
If I would not laugh at Ganesha, why at the other things you mention?

OK. No snickering at anyone's religious beliefs, no matter how silly.

What about prominent figures in that religion? Is it OK to poke fun of Jerry Falwell? What about criticize Jerry Falwell? Or to argue that the Pope isn't infallible? Or that the American Catholic Church is corrupt in it's handling of the molestation problem. Of that the Cathedral of Notre Dame is ugly?

What about parody and satire? I've seen some pretty funny comic routines on the handing down of the Ten Commandments and on black church ladies with their hats. Is irreverence out? Or is it OK to do those sketches? What about laughing at them?

I can understand a line drawn at showing contempt for the normal human reaction to the mysteries of existence. I'm struggling, though, with how rolling one's eyes at the notion of the burning book fits that bill. Irreverent, surely. Rude, perhaps. But contemptuous? Even if contemptuous, surely not conteptuous for the normal human etc. Is it "contemptuous of a normal human reaction to the mysteries of existence" what you want, or perhaps you're thinking more along the lines of offensive? Or discomfiting? Or contemptuous of someone's cultural practices and traditions rather than their normal human reaction, etc.? The more we discuss particulars, the more that brite line starts to shift into "anything that anyone religious doesn't like."

Can you firm it up a little? I can appreciate your thoushalt as stated. But there seems to be a devil in the details. Or in the interpretation.

Karen
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