Sunday, October 21, 2007

Why It's Always Acceptable to Mock Christianity

I haven't talked about the excellent posts at GetReligion for a while, but this post by Mollie was excellenter (yes, I know that's not a real word) than usual.

The post mainly concerns the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an activist group with the "hilarious" motto "Go and sin some more." Two of the group's members dressed in nuns' habits and white face and received communion from San Francisco's top Catholic official. But the post also brings up the chocolate Jesus controversy.

What journalists' handling of anti-Christian displays tells us is that, while most journalists will tell you they are objective and just "playing it straight," they really are not. If a religious group has to be offended, let it be the Christians. Mollie provides us with the justifications given for the disparate treatment of Christians with Jesus and Muslims with Mohamed.

Frequently when this topic comes up, a few readers argue that the disparity between the way the mainstream media treat blasphemy of Jesus and blasphemy of Mohamed is okay because Jesus “can take it.” Some argue that the disparity is okay because Christians don’t kill people who blaspheme Jesus. I can’t really imagine two worse justifications for a supposedly objective media.

She's right, but this really is the way the MSM thinks about religious issues. And what's worse is that they will equate Muslims who blow up marketplaces for Allah with Ann Coulter snarking about blowing up the New York Times building.

The fact is, much of the MSM (and virtually all the moonbatosphere) really thinks Christianity is more dangerous than other religions. In What's So Great About Christianity?, Dinesh D'Souza rebuts the argument that Christianity is somehow more dangerous than other religions or that it has killed more people than non-religious groups. Moreover, he points out the various contributions of Christianity to Western life and philosophy, including the many freedoms Christian-bashers take for granted.

But regardless of facts, reporters (and activists) still feel more comfortable mocking Christianity than other world religions. For a religion that is supposedly so intolerant, Christians put up with a lot.