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To: Cogito who wrote (201446)	9/14/2012 3:13:15 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541944

It's weird. I'm for putting anything in a jar of piss if an artist really wants to. Why should any religions be spared? They are all ripe for mocking, and they all should be.

To: Cogito who wrote (201446)	9/14/2012 3:32:33 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541944

Yes, they do have an extreme intolerance regarding their religion, but I think that's just an excuse for generalized anger. The thing is, their lives suck so badly that they will willingly become suicide bombers and participate in acts like they just did. They are cannon fodder for those who'd yoke their anger and hatred to an agenda.

To: Cogito who wrote (201446)	9/14/2012 4:06:40 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541944

There was a movement to kill the artist. We don't do kill movements like they do, but there was one.... I can’t and won’t defend the Revolutionmuslim website. But violence against those who depict the Divine is not just an Islamic problem. It is worth pointing out that Christianity has a long history of violence against visual depictions of Jesus, the saints, and God. In 1987, Serrano’s Piss Christ provoked death threats and violence from Christian fundamentalists and conservative Catholics across the U.S. and Europe and caused political outrage on two continents. Read more: http://blog.beliefnet.com/christianityfortherestofus/#ixzz26TUN1ALk "Picture angry mobs of Chasidim storming every McDonalds in the world" Picture Mickey D serving bacon in Jerusalem. The only other country with enuf Chasids to do damage is New York City. I've got a theory. Jews are the oldest. We kid God. We're pretty familiar with Him. Christians are younger. They joke about God, but they are still afraid to give him any lip. Getting mature, so you get individual bad guys acting out on religion, instead the roving gangs of high testosterone teenagers you find in the least mature, the Muslims. They still take everything seriously (I'm not sure you could find a Tevya in Saudi Arabia), and literally, and don't like it when an individual flips them off. Doesn't make it right, but they haven't matured yet, and don't take kindly to being dissed. Thing of it is, we can now flip them off from the relative security of the internweb, so Flipper Satanspawn can make trouble, in order to serve his own particular goal, without getting stabbed in the liver.It's EZ to think of things to inflame people.How about having an "Obama is taking your gun, so bring yours here and we'll show him" rally, and then, after about 6 speakers, crawling into a fox hole and firing off a blank? It'll, prolly work better if you give out free beer first. EZ to stir people up. I think I could set the Muslim world on fire if I tried. Gun-toting Michiganders promote 'constitutional carry' at rally mlive.com