Village Voice Caricatures Christ During Christians' Holy Week: Mayhem Spreads

RightWingBob.com ^ | 04/12/2006 | RWB

[Merciful_Friend]

The cover of this week's edition of New York's Village Voice, which hit the streets today:

• The cartoonist has disappeared into hiding after an explosion of death threats by offended believers in Jesus.
• Jerry Falwell has offered $250,000 to anyone who captures and beheads the person who drew the caricature.
• The Pope has said that while he doesn't approve of violence, the cartoon was "a grave offence to believers" and "something must be done" to prevent anymore such offenses in the future. He suggested there should be "new laws" to make sure religious sensitivities are respected.

Well, not quite. The excuse the Voice has, by the way, for splashing their cover with this at such an especially holy time for Christians is an incredibly lightweight story about a Christian college that leases some space in the Empire State Building.

[Merciful_Friend]

Happy Easter from the Village Voice.

[the invisib1e hand]

tolerance. or else.

[SittinYonder]

Jerry Falwell has offered $250,000 to anyone who captures and beheads the person who drew the caricature.

Why am I not surprised. Falwell has always struck me as a nut-job determined on spreading death.

[Kenny Bunkport]

Yeah, where are the rioting Christians...and where is the politically correct media criticizing the insensitivity of the Village Voice?

[Billthedrill]

Burn down their offices, behead the cartoonist, and demand an apology. Or, in the sweet spirit of compromise, drop the demand for an apology.

[Kenny Bunkport]

(psst...he was joking about the Falwell bit)

[TexasCajun]

I forget, did The Voice publish the controversial mohammed cartoons?

[Caveman Lawyer]

This is a King Kong take-off? The planes presumably are shooting at Him?

[SittinYonder]

(psst...he was joking about the Falwell bit)

(psst ... so was I)

[starfish923]

Village Voice = garbage

This anti-Jesus garbage is the product of garbage morals.
The people who support this rag do so because the garbage fits into their code of ethics, that is, garbage morals.
Self perpetuating sewage.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Fatwah. Works for me.

[Merciful_Friend]

Good question. To my knowledge, they did not. The "New York Sun" published one or two of them, and the "NY Press," if I remember right (a free paper like the Voice is also) attempted to publish them -- the owners balked, and the entire editorial staff then resigned (bless them). I think I'd have heard if the Voice had published them, though I am not in a position to swear.

[Kenny Bunkport]

LOL...OK, I get it. :-)

[WestVirginiaRebel]

"Jihad!!!" Or, in this case, maybe "Jehovad!!!"

[twippo]

A local "edgy" paper where I live had a cover story about "The Evolution of Religion", or along those lines. It depicted evolutionary stages between apes and humans like you see in textbooks, but the last stage depicted evolved into Jesus Christ.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

Forgive them Lord, they know not what they do. Somehow, I don't think that just applies to the crucifixion but was also meant for com temporary times as well.

[joesnuffy]

(psst...he was joking about the Falwell bit)

(psst ... so was I)

(pssst...sure.. you say that now)

[wireman]

Who cares. If you don't like it, don't read it.

I don't.

[willyboyishere]

The Voice now offers about only 2 or 3 of their critics worth reading AT ALL---Michael Feingold on theater and J. Hoberman on film and literature. The rest is countercultural wallowing/pandering, and even the once-good Nat Hentoff seems off-the-mark about half the time.

[popdonnelly]

Death to the Village Voice infidels! Burn all Greenwich Village coffee houses!