Does this guy really think that a prayerful church would send in a team of killers?
Yeah, that is why evangelicals stormed the offices of Cracked magazine and massacred its staff.
Opps, they didn’t.
Raise up or rise up? Get lost.
However, Evangelicals would not burst into their offices with full-auto AK-47's and kill 12 of the staff.
And therein, lies all the difference.
Well, don’t remember all the Christian rioting which happened after the NEA awarded a gigantic grant to that homosexual “artist” for a crucifix immersed in a jar of urine? Neither do I.
You ever heard of Bill Maher or Sarah Silverman, Michael? Their bread of fame is buttered with anti-Christian dreck.
Whatever dreck is.
Michael Who? This guy was a lightweight even when he had the reins in his hands. Christians are attacked with impunity because they have no religious protocol for revenge. Got to church Mr. Steele.
What is this idiot talking about? Of course people feel offended if a magazine or some other “artist” portrays your religious icons in a provocative and crass way. It happens all the time in the US. But no one kills the magazine publisher. We have decade upon decade of evidence that Christians don’t kill people who deliberately insult Christ and Christianity. We also now have evidence that Muslims do kill people who insult, whether deliberately or not, Mohammad. This dope Steele doesn’t seem to understand the difference. Its no wonder that the GOP was a complete disaster when he was in charge.
Sure... 'Charlie Hebdo' was a piker compared to Time Magazine, Newsweek, ABC/PBS/NBC/CBS, Hollywood, Various tax-funded 'artists' in their mockery of Christianity. Evangelicals 'rise up' in criticism, but they primarily just shun these minions of Satan. I missed the part where they went into the NY Times newsrooms and shot up the staff.
But you know, they wouldn’t KILL anybody over it.
That’s the difference and I don’t know why people are trying to elide this.
As I read on a comment elsewhere: the people killed by Boko Haram aren’t putting out any satirical magazines.
But we wouldn’t want them dead, Steele!
Yes, they would. However the odds of “evangelicals” going on a mass murder spree against them are fairly low.
There is a difference between being offended and going into a murdering rage. One would hope that Mr. Steele would draw that distinction. We would think that he would not imply there is a some type of equivalence between God-fearing Evangelicals who take the Biblical injunction to proselytize seriously and those who seek to kill for their murderous prophet Mohammad over a cartoon depicting the old lecher.
This guy believes the propaganda that the left does, that there is a cabal that rules the right of the GOP. That it is activist Baptists and similar Christian Denominations that won’t negotiate away their views on abortion.
What a blithering idiot.
Who cares how Christians would react to the publication of Charlie Hebdo in the USA?
No one would be killed or injured, no offices would be firebombed. I’ve seen Charlie Hebdo’s depiction of the Holy Trinity (I don’t recommend looking for this image). It was disturbing, but I didn’t even get enraged enough to pray for the soul of the person who drew it. (That’s about as extreme as Christians get when provoked.)
The worst thing I can wish for every liberal struggling to create a false equivalency between believing Christians and Islamic fundamentalists is that they one day face the consequences of their actions.
“Michael Steele: If Charlie Hebdo Were Published in U.S., Evangelicals Would ‘Raise Up Mightily’”
But they would not be killing anyone over it. . .and already we have seen worse (’Piss Christ” and Madonna made with elephant dung, etc). No riots and murder.
Christians would likely verbalize their disgust, if anyone even cared to ask.
Actually, I think most Christians quietly grieve and shake their heads at all of the blasphemy out there. The difference is that we leave it up to God to avenge. We don’t need to jump in and smite anyone - God can take care of that. The likes of Maplethorpe (I think that’s his name) will give an account. It’s between them and God.
Just like the current head of the RNC!
Until we ban the queeran, incarcerate and deport the slimes. WE are the prisoners in our own country!
Easiest way to prevent transportation mass murders is to prohibit slimes to be any where near them. Molesting children and the elderly only makes them fall over laughing at us.
The ONLY was to prevent Mohamed from going mohamicidal is to lock him up and ship him out!
But they wouldn't use it as an excuse to hurt anybody at the magazine, or anywhere else.
What kind of moral conflation is Steele trying to accomplish here?
Christians would be very angry under such a circumstance, but they wouldn't turn into blind, rage-filled, savage, mass-murdering animals with no shred of humanity.
And that would make all the difference in the world.
The ignorant shit some public figures say, seemingly just to hear themselves talk, is truly astonishing.