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Originally Posted by ScaredWebWarrior
But Jesus was not the only person to have ever been crucified by the Romans, so a crucifixion, of itself, is not disrespectful. It was just another case of someone taking offence without just cause.
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Indeed. And I am not one of the Christians who took offence to the film (in fact I attended a screening of it that was held as a fundraiser for Christian Aid week while I was at university). The Pythons said they were having a go at organised religion, and TBH I think the film does that very well. As I said, the one actual brief appearance of Jesus in the film doesn't send him up at all. It does send up some of the people standing at the back of the crowd listening to him though.
That's not to say I think people don't have the right to take offence at something. My main beef is still the way they are expressing it. As others have already said, reacting to a cartoon of Mohammed with a bomb on his head by turning up outside an EU building waving a machine gun has a certain (entirely unintended I'm sure) irony about it.
Outraged of Gaza has totally failed to understand that if you want to counter something, you need to do it by laying out your reasoning, not by burning flags and threatening to blow people up. The tragedy is, the Islamic world was not always like this. In Our Time on R4 yesterday morning had a very interesting discussion about the Abbasid Caliphate. It's well worth a listen if you have 45 minutes to spare:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/