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Village Voice Caricatures Christ During Christians' Holy Week: Mayhem Spreads
RightWingBob.com ^
| 04/12/2006
| RWB
Posted on 04/12/2006 4:28:23 PM PDT by 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.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cartoons; faggotsaremorons; pinkslime; rainbowbrigade
Happy Easter from the Village Voice.
To: Merciful_Friend
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posted on
04/12/2006 4:30:06 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(Polls show Jesus' approval ratings at all time low, after a triumphant reception just a few days ago)
To: Merciful_Friend
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.
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posted on
04/12/2006 4:32:09 PM PDT
by
SittinYonder
(That's how I saw it, and see it still.)
To: Merciful_Friend
Yeah, where are the rioting Christians...and where is the politically correct media criticizing the insensitivity of the Village Voice?
To: Merciful_Friend
Burn down their offices, behead the cartoonist, and demand an apology. Or, in the sweet spirit of compromise, drop the demand for an apology.
To: SittinYonder
(psst...he was joking about the Falwell bit)
To: Merciful_Friend
I forget, did The Voice publish the controversial mohammed cartoons?
To: Merciful_Friend
This is a King Kong take-off? The planes presumably are shooting at Him?
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posted on
04/12/2006 4:33:33 PM PDT
by
Caveman Lawyer
(Cluckin' defiance)
To: Kenny Bunkport
(psst...he was joking about the Falwell bit)
(psst ... so was I)
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posted on
04/12/2006 4:33:37 PM PDT
by
SittinYonder
(That's how I saw it, and see it still.)
To: Merciful_Friend
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.
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posted on
04/12/2006 4:35:35 PM PDT
by
starfish923
(Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
To: Merciful_Friend
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posted on
04/12/2006 4:38:17 PM PDT
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(Join me! Every night I pray for Global Warming . (And I think it's beginning to work.))
To: TexasCajun
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.
To: SittinYonder
To: Merciful_Friend
"Jihad!!!" Or, in this case, maybe "Jehovad!!!"
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posted on
04/12/2006 4:40:31 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
To: All
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.
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posted on
04/12/2006 4:48:01 PM PDT
by
twippo
(Ted's of Beverly Hills: We want to put our meat in your mouth.)
To: Merciful_Friend
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.
To: SittinYonder
(psst...he was joking about the Falwell bit) (psst ... so was I)
(pssst...sure.. you say that now)
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posted on
04/12/2006 4:50:31 PM PDT
by
joesnuffy
( 'This Guest Worker Program' is the only way to keep us safe and warm at night)
To: Merciful_Friend
Who cares. If you don't like it, don't read it.
I don't.
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posted on
04/12/2006 4:50:31 PM PDT
by
wireman
To: starfish923
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.
To: Merciful_Friend
Death to the Village Voice infidels! Burn all Greenwich Village coffee houses!
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