Tuesday, March 14, 2006

What is blasphemy?

The excellent Chicago Sun-Times writer asks the question in her recent column. Here is an excerpt;

in an age of pluralism, multiculturalism, and (some say) secularism, what constitutes blasphemy?
Is it an image of the Buddha adorning a flip-flop?
A Hindu deity on the front of a skimpy tank top?
Madonna and Guy Ritchie praying at the tomb of the Matriarch Rachel in Israel?
Jesus as a namby-pamby cable-access talk-show host on "South Park"? Or political paraphernalia that says it's our "God-given right" to bear arms?

Is nothing sacred anymore?

1 comment:

audrey said...

A friend pointed out recently the hypocrisy in of America attacking (literally and figuratively) Iraqi 'insurgents', when the same America defends so passionately their 'constituionally defended right to bear arms' against those that threaten their liberty.