Hell has frozen over: I agree with Bill Donohue
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
By Bryan Cones
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Well, it doesn't happen often, but I think ol' Bill has a point when he complains about Larry David urinating (by accident) on a picture of Jesus in Sunday's Curb Your Enthusiasm. Of course, I think the purpose of Donahue's existence has become seeking to be offended, but some things just are inexcusably over the top. (As Megan noted last week, Donohue let Marge Simpson have it over this year's Halloween episode of The Simpsons.)
Larry David is Jewish--though I'm not sure he's a believer--but I imagine the Anti-Defamation League would level fury against confluence of human excrement (Christian or not) and the Torah, as well they should. So I think we can all agree that making a gag out of someone peeing on an image of Jesus--and then compounding the bad joke by having characters believe that Jesus is "weeping"--is grossly insensitive and even seems to be a deliberate provocation.
I'm not sure it's an actual act of anti-Catholicism, though. I just think it's crass, rude, and puerile--basically pure Larry David.
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First Time You Agree with Donahue?
By Jerry (not verified) on Wednesday, October 28, 2009Were you for:
*Public funding to display "art" of elepant dung and genitalia smeared on an image of the Virgin Mary and "P--- Christ" a crucifix immersed in a jar of urine?
*a San Francisco Street fair poster of scantily clad gay men posing in a last supper image?
*Presidential Candidate John Edwards hiring to his staff a liberal blogger who suggest Mary should have taken an abortion pill after "the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit?"
For those of you who say that hate against Christians doesn't matter, may I remind you that the French Revolution, the forerunner of modern liberalism, outlawed Catholicism in France.
Mr. David, who is undoubtedly NOT a practicing Jew, should have courage and mock Muslims and live under a Fatwa calling for his killing.
Jerry, Even though I have
By John David (not verified) on Thursday, October 29, 2009Jerry,
Even though I have not agreed with all of the issues Mr. Donahue has raised to be legitiment attacks against The Catholic church, I agree with your statements. These examples shows a disrespect that crosses over to hate. I, like you, deplore these attacks.
Yet, I have read Mr. Donahue's writings and heard him speak. And believe that he has been right about some issues. None-the-less, I find him to have shown very little care for proper argument building and to be a hate promoter. All too often I have found that, both in The Church as well as in politics, if someone or some group is promoting something which we see as a just cause, we do not have to consider anything else about them or their group. This has lead to some very unholy alliances with many of them claiming to be in the name of God. I don't believe hate is ever holy and too often it is covered up with the dressing of self-rightiousness and piety.
Peace and Prayers for your journey
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