Terrorists cant stop Armies, Money and Oil.

[kandrathe]

Good generalization. I'm sure these people speak for the majority of Christians.
Still, the Book of Daniel is hardly a reason to stage a protest. Depicting Muhammed as a suicide bomber? That's just a fricking stupid thing to do, like trying to pee on the pope.
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They are both insensitive representations of people considered to be prophets, or more. If you portray either Jesus, or Muhammed as a suicide bomber, pimp, or goat herder you are metaphorically peeing on the pope.

But, artists in the West have been trampling on people sensitivities for so long that the three same typical responses occur, those that hail it as courageous, those that abhor and protest it, and those that ignore the stupidity of the attention whoring artist and the other two groups for wasting their time with such manure.

Once out of the bottle, the genie was bound to display its privates. Audiences in the 1930s may have been shocked to see James Barton turn upstage to pretend to urinate in Tobacco Road, but recent audiences witnessed full-frontal pissing in Adam Rapp's Finer Noble Gases and watched a half-dozen naked men taking showers in Take Me Out. Simulated and sometimes actual sex, both oral and genital, has become a commonplace of our stage, along with often ferocious satire on America's most cherished religious pieties and political convictions--the kind of behavior designed to drive the red state of mind into a frenzy. (In 1998, Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi--about a gay Jesus surrounded by twelve flaming disciples--even brought bomb threats to the Manhattan Theatre Club and death threats to its two directors.) Red and Blue States of Mind

I just ask myself what is the purpose? Are we as a society supposed to become so bereft of indignation and shame that any level of depravity and debasement appearing in public should be condoned? It's already getting that way in many places. Is that what WE want? Do I really want to have to explain to my 5 year old what those two naked adults are doing to each other?

So, yes, yes! "That's just a fricking stupid thing to do, like trying to pee on the pope." I'm not a prude, but I think there needs to be some boundaries on what is acceptable behavior in public places.