Actions have consequences
As the cartoonists in Denmark have learned.
Another rambling rant. Sorry.
Kim Du Toit reminds us that the “my imaginary friend is better than your imaginary friend” debate is plain stupid, and I couldn’t agree more. Trouble is, as he points out, when someone does or says something to piss off Christians, they tend not to issue a fatwah.
There is no questioning freedom of speech; when someone says something that pisses someone else off, you have to be aware that there are repercussions. I’ve pissed off my share here, and I’m the least confrontational person I know. I find that the more closedminded people are, the more likely they are to take off if you question their beliefs- or challenge them to question their own.
When you display pictures of the Virgin Mary created in dung, expect some Christians to get up in arms. If you publish cartoons of Mahomet, expect people to pick up their arms. It’s just that simple, folks. I’m not doing those things because I don’t want a fatwah issued against me, I have more than enough to keep me busy, thankyouverymuch.
All that aside: Frances Poretto reminds us of a core truth, which cannot be denied: Islam is toxic to human life. The time for negotiation is past. Kim, I believe, doesn’t buy this assertion, a lot of my friends labor under the completely erroneous conclusion that I feel this way because I am a Christian, and nothing could be further from the truth. Where it comes to Islam, even an atheist can easily see that this is a theology that calls upon it’s followers to create havoc, as a core tenet of it’s belief. There is no such thing as a “peaceful muslim”, there are only muslims that have taken up the sword, and those who have yet to. This proves itself to be the case over and over again.
Kim says he doesn’t have a dog in this fight, and where judeo-christian theology is concerned, no, he doesn’t. There is another (small G) god we all serve (so to speak) and that is the god of democracy. While that human-created god is neither perfect nor all knowing nor all powerful, it is one worth hanging on to, and the entire islamic culture is determined not to let it exist.
I don’t have any interest in what anyone believes, anywhere, ever. If you have convinced yourself that you should worship a judeo christian creator, a giant turtle carrying the planet on it’s back, an easter island statue, the almighty (dollar, yen, ruble), the Designated Hitter Rule, or John Moses Browning, there is only one thing I ask of you: Keep it out of my face. I’m not interested in imposing my beliefs on anyone, as is evidenced by the fact that nobody could even GUESS what my beliefs are. They’re rather odd, and I keep them exclusively to myself.
Is their any other religion that would riot over cartoons?
Although I admit the cartoons WERE kinda boring. Maybe they’re just angry that Scott Adams didn’t do them? :-)
That giant turtle would not happen to have four elephants on its back, with the flat disc-shaped planet resting on them would it?
amen brother
NOBODY worships the DH!
Jenny
who is waiting on the Church of Baseball to start services once again.
The cartoons were really lame, and were printed in September, for crying out loud. Why the outcry now? Some government over there wanted a stink, and here it is. If it wasn’t cartoons, it’d be something else. This just lanced the boil. At least now everyone can see what total dorks we’re dealing with. And how nothing will satisfy them. That’s the only consequence I see. Oh, and the outing of Western Europe as the wuss continent for standing by when their cartoonists (cartoonists, for chrissake – I can’t believe I’m writing this for real, NOT as a Python satire) go into hiding to avoid the free range, above the law Islamic Mafia.
On the bright side, the Muslim reaction got some really nasty people to make some really nasty Mo cartoons. So the Muslims created the worse situation themselves – they brought the hard core blasphemers out of the woodwork and on Mo’s ass. Phyrric victory, but self-immolation pleases them anyway. It’s kind of like, how do you discipline a masochistic kid who *likes* to get spanked?
Iran is going to punish us with anti-Christian and anti-Jew cartoons and images. As if we we haven’t had those two religions berated daily for the past generation already. Kind of like announcing going on a mugging spree in Detroit, who would notice it above the everyday usual?
The John Browning thing sounds interesting.
Unfortunatley, that would interfere with my Christianity.
However, I still thing BROWING ROCKS!!!