Monday, April 02, 2007

Here at the Western World

*Sigh* It's Holy Week so naturally someone has to rabble rouse. This time around it's the Chocolate Jesus. You know, I've seen so many of these pathetic attempts to shock in my life that by now it's all I can do not to yawn. It should be clear by now that going after the Catholic Church - or Christians in general - in an effort to provoke shock and outrage is like reaching for low-hanging fruit; anyone can do it. It does not require talent and it's certainly not daring.

A chocolate Mohammed, preferably shown strapping a bomb vest on a young boy, now that might gin up some controversy. Of course, it also might get the artist killed - unlike Catholics, Islamic radicals tend to express their outrage in a more, um, concrete fashion, sort of like Wookies do when you beat them at chess. But think of the posterity!

Over at Protein Wisdom, Dan Collins correctly gauges the feminist reaction.

2 comments:

Dan Collins said...

Hey, Gaucho, where in the Second Rethuglic you at?

Gaucho said...

Bernie Sanders City, er, Burlington.