More of the "Blame the victims, portray the violent psychos as the REAL victims" BS the liberals love puking out on occasions like this.
"However, there is a difference between doing something that others may find offensive, and doing something for the sole purpose of being offensive... This current incident is not a matter of exercising nor protecting one's First Amendment right to free speech. It was a matter of disrespecting other people's religious beliefs for the sole purpose of saying, "I am allowed to do this, and therefore I will - despite the fact that there is no purpose in doing so, other than to be offensive."...
It strikes me as incredibly childish to do something - anything - just because one can, and not because one feels they are advancing or protecting their rights, or the rights of others.....Yes, shooting people over cartoons is psychotic. And so is disrespecting someone else's religious beliefs when done for the sole purpose of saying, "I'm allowed to do this, and therefore I will," without any other purpose being served, or even considered."
That mindset this DUmmy is describing (Which is indeed obnoxious and juvenile, and I doubt it was what Geller was going for) is actively used by such revolting, asinine liberal media darlings as Bill Maher, Sarah Silverman, and Seth Macfarlane. The whole "Saying something horrifically crass, deliberately insensitive and offensive, and in incredibly poor taste= funny and edgy" mindset.
" Christians have done the exact same thinG
It's been a while since the Salem Witch Trials, but Christians have come from a sometimes violent past."
Wait, wait: Is this DUmmy going for the whole idiotic "The Salem Witch Trials were a bigoted persecution of poor Wiccans for their beliefs" fallacy?
That is just freaking stupid.
Most if not all of the people killed or imprisoned in the Salem Witch Trials were Christians (In fact, one of the people executed was a Puritan minister named George Burroughs who had been a pastor in Salem for a while) who were falsely accused of witchcraft by the corrupt and paranoid townspeople.
While supposed Christian piety and a desire to protect the village were the publicly- announced, "Official" reasons for the Salem Witch Trials, they were in fact motivated by a combination of boredom/ a desire for attention (The girls who made the first accusations), petty spite (Many of the accusers had long- standing grudges against the people they accused), and good old- fashioned greed (When a person was convicted and executed for witchcraft, everything he or she owned would be confiscated and sold at auction; Many unscrupulous Salem landowners would accuse their land- rich neighbors of witchcraft in order to make a quick, cheap land- grab of as much of their property as possible), none of which are traits that the Christian faith holds in particularly high regard.
One of my own ancestors was a defendant in the Salem Witch Trials (According to my historian/ genealogist grandmother, she was a woman with a bit of a sharp tongue, which made her some enemies and was almost certainly the basis of her being accused), but she was exonerated.
