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September 03, 2007
Well, this should be fun. It looks like our comic strip writing friend is going to tackle Ye Olde Sins of the Secular Heathens. He's trotting out his familiar refrain: How Can the Party/Ideology/Etc. of Tolerance Be So Intolerant blah blah.
But let's examine how he's framing it today. Winslow -- seemingly a "devout secularist" -- insults Carmen -- seemingly a "[person] of faith" -- by calling her a moron, which Stantis uses to illustrate his point. But Winslow could be calling her a moron because she is, in fact, stupid, not because she eats the flesh of Jesus. Winslow's "insult" is not directly linked to Carmen's "faith."
Apparently Stantis would have it that "people of faith" cannot be insulted AT ALL, even if said insult does not result from said faith. Almost as if the True Believers should be protected by some sort of magical, invisible Godforce Field. Isn't it enough that they are going to be beamed up to Heaven whilst the seculars face the Armageddon End Times on Earth? Now they get a special magical, invisible Godforce Field too?? It's not fair.
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So Opus gets censored for fear that it might upset Muslims, but this crap goes through even though it's obviously going to tick off people who aren't religious? Wonderful. I love that thanks to Bill O'Reilly anybody who doesn't believe in a god of some kind is a "secular progressive." Hasn't Stantis heard that BillO is irrelevant nowadays?
What brought this up? Did Toby make fun of Stantis? Of course the dumbest part is that it was just revealed that freakin' Mother Teresa questioned her own faith and was most likely a secular near the end. I'll bet she insulted those starving kids all the time.
Posted by: The Furnace at September 3, 2007 08:50 AM
Yeah, becuase WE tell people that they're going to hell, force OUR beliefs on the government, and pretend this is all resonable becuase we have this all knowing benevolent figure who supports all this...
I hate it when Irony works agianst me.
Posted by: Kate at September 3, 2007 01:50 PM
