Austrian cartoonist faces Greek jail over blasphemy

[Spiffor]

Jesus was sexually liberal, he had sex with guys and girls, God told me this, I'm not about to argue with him, maybe you'd like to.

The irony is just delicious

This goes straight to my sig

[Agathon]

Why is it that redneck preachers are allowed to spout the most vile slanders against queers, atheists, Jews and other people in public, yet we are supposed to care about a humorous cartoon of JC?

[Heresson]

Originally posted by Agathon
Why is it that redneck preachers are allowed to spout the most vile slanders against queers, atheists, Jews and other people in public, yet we are supposed to care about a humorous cartoon of JC?

They should not be allowed to do so.

Originally posted by alva

Imagine me showing a picture of some slimy, evil, deceitful Jew planning the doom of the mankind. It'd also be a picture, and it'd be forbidden

You wouldn't hear anything from me. (not that I endorse blahblahblah...)

So, if I did that here, You think everyone would cheer at me as they're cheering at these pictures?

Originally posted by Thorn
I saw some of those on some Nazi posters.....

Yes. and?

Jesus was sexually liberal, he had sex with guys and girls, God told me this, I'm not about to argue with him, maybe you'd like to.

That's exactly what I'm talking about. Such talk perhaps should not be banned, but should be condemned by all sensible people. But not. For Apolytonian atheists, offending religion is always in good taste, no matter how primitive and obscure it is.

[Spiffor]

I think Thorn really believes in God (along with many other supernatural things), and I think he's serious when he says that God told him so...

And yes, this post is not sarcasm.

[Thorn]

Thanks Spiffor.

[Agathon]

They should not be allowed to do so.

Great. Can we have your official word on this. The state is allowed to silence public religious speech.

Oh joy!!

[Boris Godunov]

Wait...I don't see why a picture of Jesus surfing is so offensive. What am I missing?

[Dr Strangelove]

I wonder if the judge who issued this warrant or the prosecutor who initiated the proceedings might have an agenda regarding the EU warrant system. Could they be attempting to torpedo it by using it in such a controversial manner?

[Heresson]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Wait...I don't see why a picture of Jesus surfing is so offensive. What am I missing?

1) it's parody of Him going on water
2) He helds his arms apart, in the shape of cross,
but in fact, He opens his shirt for all to see his
nakedness

Originally posted by Agathon

They should not be allowed to do so.

Great. Can we have your official word on this. The state is allowed to silence public religious speech.

Oh joy!!

There are limits to any speech. If someone says that homosexuality is sin, it's OK. When He says that we should burn homosexuals on stakes, it's wrong and should not be allowed.

[Thorn]

Originally posted by Heresson
2) He helds his arms apart, in the shape of cross,
but in fact, He opens his shirt for all to see his
nakedness

Another thing I never got, Wasn't it just puritans that are so worried about Nakedness... I mean go to Europe they have freaking scenes of people having sex on Cathedrals etched into stone in the walls.

Where in the bible does it talk about your natural state (nakedness) being a sin?! (what noah, but he didn't exist).

[Heresson]

Go to a priest, again I tell You.
Stop trolling.
And it's not about nakedness itself, it's exhibitionism.

[Thorn]

I'm not trolling that's whats funny about this.

[Spiffor]

Heresson, you still haven't told us why you think we should shun Thron when he expresses his religious beliefs (i.e. that God told him Jesus was sexually liberal, which is his actual belief and not a ridiculing of Christianty)

[alva]

So, if I did that here, You think everyone would cheer at me as they're cheering at these pictures?

Again, personally, I wouldn't give a toss.
However, I don't think it's completely the same. I mean what you are describing and the jezes picture posted here in the OP.

[Imran Siddiqui]

There are limits to any speech. If someone says that homosexuality is sin, it's OK. When He says that we should burn homosexuals on stakes, it's wrong and should not be allowed.

Ah... facism . Freedom of speech protects even speech we find offensive.