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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] What. The. Fuck??!?
From:       "Dan Rosenthal" <swatjester () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-05-12 15:00:33
Message-ID: 2441d8d10605120800h435a5641na396035d4e29c98a () mail ! gmail ! com
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Cyde brings up a very very good point. What your religion may perceive
as "mocking" and "offensive", my religion, or Cyde's, may not. I'm
sorry but I fail to see how this is different than the Muhammed
Cartoons: the argument there is "omg it's blasphemous and
disrespectful to show muhammed" and here it's "omg it's blashphemous
and disrespectful to make a cross spin around".

-Swatjester

On 5/12/06, Ben McIlwain <cydeweys@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Mark Gallagher wrote:
> >Ben wrote:
> >> I've heard a lot of people claiming that it's offensive but I'm just not
> >> seeing it.  How is it offensive?  All of the Christians I personally
> >> know who I've pointed it out to thought it was either funny or annoying,
> >> but not offensive.
> >
> > Mocking the cross?  You can't see what's wrong with that?
>
> I don't worship icons, so no, I really don't see what's wrong with it.
>
> And I didn't "mock" it, I just rotated the canvas ninety degrees thrice.
>
> That's the problem with this religious stuff.  It's entirely subjective
> and inappropriate for use as, say, a deletion criteria.  Which is
> exactly what some people are trying to use it for.
>
> - --
> Ben McIlwain ("Cyde Weys")
>
> ~ Sub veste quisque nudus est ~
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Dan Rosenthal
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