We’re just as touchy, claim Springer campaigners
The anti JS:TO campaign turned out in force last night at Birmingham’s Hippodrome. About 60 tambourine bashing leafleters turned up – twice the number that attended the opening in Plymouth.
Inevitable comparisons with Muslim toon rage arose. Nigel Powell, of Hurst Green Family Church in Halesowen, said:
It is the same sort of thing – the Muslims are offended by what was in the Danish newspaper and we are deeply offended by what is taking place here.
“One of the Muslim spokesmen actually made a comment that they were the only religion in the world left that really cares about their God – they said even Christians are happy to let the Life of Brian and Jerry Springer – the Opera take place without any protest. Well we do care and there has been a lot of protests. We love Jesus with a passion and we find this deeply offensive.
This “loving” of semi-mythical dead prophets “with a passion” does seem to cause a few problems, doesn’t it?
So what Nigel Powell is saying is that they are all as daft as each other?
Daft is quite a polite way of putting it, I prefer the term ‘mentally challenged’. Well, that’s me being polite really, I suppose I really mean god bothering idiots!
what would you rather us christians do? maintain an emotionally distant and uninvolved respect only for persons whom upitty psuedo-intellectuals will give their full and unappriciated historiacal approval? because, if that’s the case, then you should also begin a campaign to have the public libraries rid themselves of about half of their books. Plato? Caesar? Charlemagne? let’s get these historical spectres out of the way too- wouldn’t want the spiteful socialists of the future bogged down by the potential disaster of actually believing in a world before marx. you people kill me.
i just wish the one true higher being that supposedly created us would sort this argument out by revealing him/her/it self… although we would just find something else to fight about soon enough
Dear Michael,
What evidence can you provide that demonstrates that any/all/some of the people posting to this site are anything to do with socialism, whether of a marxist variety or not? And that they somehow detest history?
Do tell.
Did your mythical supernatural being-of-choice reveal it to you in a dream, perhaps?
And please, what is “full and unappriciated historiacal approval” ? I don’t mind the spelling, it’s the meaning that seems a touch obscure. But then maybe I’m not enough of an “uppity psuedo-intellectual” to understand, so if you could please provide a list of them I could consult, I’d be most grateful.
I, for one, am happy for supernaturalists (or anyone else) to protest peacefully against anything they don’t like.
But please don’t expect the rest of us to take seriously any claims to “truth”, “moral authority”, or any right of censorship based upon the alleged wishes of an undetectable, unprovable entity.
Michael, people like us don’t kill you, we’re having too much fun just laughing at you.
To kill for some petty, spiteful reason you usually need a pathetic excuse to hide behind, like saying your god told you to do it.
LOL Andy and Stuart, how about bigger boys did it and ran away? ;-]
Christians: We can be intolerant too
I’m a bit behind here, but from MediaWatchWatch comes the news that about 60 Christians turned up at the Birmingham Hippodrome to protest against the staging of Jerry Springer: The Opera.
As with many religious types, they start off by getting ou…
The people behind Jerry Springer did not set out to offend Christians. As far as I know!