2 armed suspects shot outside Mohammed art event in Texas >Read mod warning in OP<

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An opinion you're willing to bet on, and in the balance, if you lose, humans die. That's another thing about you conservatives, you are willing to bet with other peoples lives just to make an ideological point. As for me, I would err on the side of caution and try to convince those in charge NOT to show such a display, despite the fact that it's a freedom Americans should not have to worry about. The religious right can be just as barbaric and ruthless as any other religious fanatical group. They would rather defend christianity from all criticism than stand clearly against ALL religious violence.

I could just imagine large groups of christians in paramilitary outfits and guns, surrounding an art exhibit featuring highly controversial images of JC, in order to defend their right to do it. I don't think so.
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Beavis & Butthead convention for wannanbee beavis & Buttheads. I wonder what the average IQ of those attending was compared to the average nation IQ..........

 

The left intentionally teaches their little art students to pounce on the christians. Defacing all that is holly in the name of art. And is praised by the left. Mocking and trying to offend Christians.
Yet progressives and liberals think Islam is off limits for some reason.
Why?

 

Thousands and thousands have already died to protect our right to free speech. The chance of death should never deter us from expressing our selves the way we damn well please, or we dishonor those who secured that very freedom for us.

 

Oh, so that's the reason. We'll draw some cartoons to provoke them into trying to shoot us just to prove that we can't be intimidated. And at the end, we might have some innocent people dead, and the right to draw a cartoon figure in a turban. Sounds like a win-win.

And yet no major issues for a long time, and this is pretty minor in the whole terrorism scale of things. And clearly not very well organized. Still horrible, ofc.

How is the opposite of having a mohamad exhibition equal to Islam making laws in the US? Don't strawman this. It's not about them writing any laws. We have freedom of speech - Yes, it's a very good thing and is not going to change. Is that put to good use by having a muhamad cartoon exhibition? I personally don't think so. If the reason for this exhibition was about "we won't be intimidated", well I honestly didn't think we were intimidated - I don't think we need a shooting to prove that though. If the event was about provocation, then it worked, although again I don't see the point just for some macho BS end-goal.

I'm honestly struggling to find the real purpose of this exhibition...

 

Is our collective educational system now so very dismal in nature that about half of the voters in this nation have forgotten (or never knew in the first place) that this nation was founded by people willing to fight and die for ideology and that the entire thing has been maintained ever since by periodically being defended by people willing to die for ideology?

 

To all the people that replied to me.

When you poke a bear, do you blame the bear for it biting you? Or, is it the idiot's fault for poking the bear to begin with?

 

Now that's sad. Bears are stuffing prisoners of war inside cages and burning them alive? Bears are beheading hundreds of people on a routine basis? Baaaaaaaaad bears!

 

We'll draw cartoons regardless of their idiotic laws, and yes we will not be intimidated by morons who think it's okay to kill people for drawing a picture.

Am I not being clear? Did I stutter or something?

No major issues? You don't read the news? You didn't hear about the Texas thing less than 24 hours ago that's the subject of this thread?

Don't work your brain too hard. The purpose doesn't matter. It doesn't have to have a purpose. It's free speech. You can say whatever you want, and you can depict whatever you want in art. People who feel they have to kill over a piece of art are just morons, and they need to exposed for the insecure little punks they are, and they certainly can not be allowed to intimidate a free society.

 

Where was your struggle when progressive colleges were in the name of art christianity is mocked?

 

Apparently they were smarter than the pair of wannabe terrorist thugs who are now pushing up daisies . . . or will be.

 

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What's been done? Are you referring to Andres Serrano's "Christ Urine" art exhibit? You know he had to go into hiding because of the tumultuous amount of christian death threats against him and his family. There are sites online that document people who have been received death threats by gawd fearing christians such as this one; Death Threats From Christians. More hypocrisy.

Yes, ALL people should be able to speak or do as they say as their freedoms and rights allow BUT before you take such a self-righteous attitude, consider that christians who live in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones....at non believers or at The Magdalene.

 

Can you rephrase? I don't know what you are referring to.

 

So is the left calling for an end of mocking all religions or just Islam?
No more cartoons showing Catholics in a negotiate light too right?

 

This says it all. This is the progressive view of religion.
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When will the left stop mocking Christians?

 

Muslims are no better than bears is that what you're saying? Impacable of reasonal thinking and all?

 

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True enough but when that ideology becomes contorted, twisted, politicized or otherwise bastardized by groups that advocate a concept based in their myopic perspective of a god, that ideology is no longer altruistic and just becomes a mere power grab. There is nothing sacred or spiritualistic about what the US religious right represents.

 

Two islamic murders just tried to kill people and yet progressive are still wanting to bash Catholics. Amazing!!

 

I have no real interest in what the left has to say, and it doesn't apparently have anything to do with my comments in this post.
Mocking is not the same as provocation, but I would suggest either for the sake of free speech lessens it's power.

Christians may be more passive than muslims. Depicting mohamed seems to be the highest insult you can give a muslim. Flushing a bible? I don't think that ranks so highly on a Christians' bill. Perhaps because the US is seen to be build upon Christianity, we can get away with mocking our own roots, even if we don't share the same ideals today. I have no idea.

In any case, if we want to make a good use of free speech to suggest any religion (christian or otherwise) is wrong, then we have plenty of way to formulate arguments without resorting to insults. Pictures paint a thousand words, and sometimes those words can be insulting. Helpful? I'm not sure they would be... and certainly not if people get hurt.

 

Of course anyone opposed to free-speech should be shot & killed, that includes the Bush family, Skull & bones members & Tony Blair for starters....

 

Please leftist. Give us a list of religions we are allowed to offend.

 

Yep, making excuses for violence by attacking free speech rights. Do you think it is right that the same crowd that kills people that express free speech also kill gays? Some people need to get their heads on straight.

 

These are the animals the left is cuddling
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-fundamentalists-having-FACEBOOK-account.html

 

(Scratching head in puzzlement.) I may be wrong here but I'm pretty sure that it wasn't any branch of the nation's religious Christian right that intended to murder a bunch of cartoonists yesterday evening.

 

Are you saying these two that tried killing people yesterday were right wingers?