Even as a Christian, I can see some artistic merit. Osama et al do have a bit of a messianic complex – that whole twelfth imam thing. And putting a burqa on the Virgin Mary illustrates a key difference between us and them – Christianity glorifies this woman, Islam would enslave her.

“As for the endlessly repeated claim that art is supposed to make you feel uncomfortable, I don’t buy that. And I don’t believe the people who say that they do buy it are being honest. I think that a picture which they have no problem with, but which they believe makes other people whom they disapprove of uncomfortable, makes them very comfortable indeed, and that that is the kind of discomfort (i.e. not discomfort at all, for them) which they like, and are referring to with all this discomfort propaganda.”

See my post Art, Discomfort, and Dehumanization, which excerpts some important thoughts by novelist Mark Helprin.

These “artistes” are no better than those sickos who wuill beat a chained dog, knowing he can’t get close enough to hurt you. they take a swipe, then run out of harm’s reach.

Notice how they won’t attack the Islamists, who are dogs without leashes, roaming free and willing to strike back. I think that says everything that needs to be said.

These anti-christian attackers are cowards, nothing more, but certainly perhaps much less, and they diminish and degrade the name of art when they act in such manner.

I’m not a christian. I am a pagan. I worship many gods, but I find the idea of Christian-bashing particularly repulsive, because it incurs no penalties, no risk.

I’ve made offerings at my altar in the hopes that someday, while these folks are taking swipes at the chained dog, that Apollo reaches down and lets loose the dog. It’ll be a whole new ballgame then, and I hope to have a seat on the sideline when it happens

Respects,