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(Canada.com)   Saskatchewan newspaper prints cartoon of Jesus preforming oral sex -- 20 people revolt   (canada.com) divider line
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Calvin Hobbes
2006-03-07 9:26:43 PM  
On the down side, I am currently sitting in Saskatchewan.

On the plus side, I get way better hockey coverage here than I do at home in Chicago.

/end threadjack
 
moriquendi
2006-03-07 11:38:17 PM  
From my hometown. It's not actually a newspaper, it's the local university's student paper. The 'problem' is that jesus is performing a sex act on a pig. Apparently that's a problem.
 
MyNameIsDick
2006-03-08 1:13:53 AM  
Let me be the first to say:

This thread is worthless without pics.

/of jesus giving some dome
 
cato113 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-03-08 1:52:29 AM  
And it's bigger than 20 people...like 30, 35 tops. There's also the student union weighing in on this, the local press and a letter sent out everyone with a usask.ca address from the U of S president.

I always wanted to see the Sheaf on Fark, but not for this
 
shady_lady
2006-03-08 4:31:55 AM  
but was he auto-fellating?

/because he can
 
Kuldiin
2006-03-08 5:02:34 AM  
How dare they insult Islam!!!111
 
Z_since_1516
2006-03-08 5:03:08 AM  
I FOR ONE WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS MY OUTRATE AT oooh! something shiny!
 
jeffyd
2006-03-08 5:03:34 AM  
moriquendi: The 'problem' is that jesus is performing a sex act on a pig. Apparently that's a problem.


What's the problem? Isn't this already in the bible?

/jk
 
takamine_master
2006-03-08 5:05:24 AM  
meh. Cue the attention whore pic.
 
i am the infidel
2006-03-08 5:06:55 AM  
It's not like he drew a stick figure of the savior. Now THAT would upset me.
 
ColdFusion
2006-03-08 5:06:59 AM  
And it's bigger than 20 people...like 30, 35 tops.

Gotta be at least 75% of the population...
 
FastJeff
2006-03-08 5:09:50 AM  
People want to see animals! Close up! With a wide angle lens!
 
Mageboy
2006-03-08 5:10:27 AM  
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/003630.html

Page with cartoon in qustion on it
 
FluffyPanda
2006-03-08 5:10:35 AM  
It's a cartoon, I don't really care.

I'm more worried about the christians and christian priests being murdered right now because of the danish cartoon scandal.

/disclaimer: christian
//not been murdered by an angry muslim yet
///still defend Islam, it really does preach respect, peace and community
 
Hiro-ACiD
2006-03-08 5:17:10 AM  
[image from kids-teens.org too old to be available]
 
FluffyPanda
2006-03-08 5:18:09 AM  
Mageboy: Page with cartoon in qustion on it

I don't get it.

Are they blaming jesus for excessive commercialism? Or was it just a cheap excuse for a religios blowjob joke?
 
dudemanbro
2006-03-08 5:20:03 AM  
Jesus performing a sex act on a capitalist pig...
I lol'd.
takamine_master:
[image from img70.imageshack.us too old to be available]
 
nickthegun
2006-03-08 5:22:13 AM  
Technically that could be correct. Jesus, son of and by extension god, when he created us must have created oral sex. And in his first experiments at oral he must a have 'pre-formed' it before he gave it to us in the form of a blowjob.

Yeah.....thats a long (and not particularly funny) post, just to point out a spelling mistake.

/b....b...bb.....but Jesus got a blowjob.......
 
Bhruic
2006-03-08 5:27:31 AM  
"Being able to speak your mind is not necessarily the right to bash others without reason," Austin said

No, really, that's exactly what it means. If you are prohibited from bashing others without reason then you really don't have the ability to speak your mind.

/I support your right to be offensive
//As long as you understand I reserve the same right
 
Jesda
2006-03-08 5:29:34 AM  
So, are angry Christians going to set fires and declare war?

/Trolling for Islamofanatics.
 
EnoMan
2006-03-08 5:29:35 AM  
Antlers of the Damned
 
jonr
2006-03-08 5:32:00 AM  
That's like... 50% of its readers?
 
EnoMan
2006-03-08 5:32:52 AM  
Sheaf Board of Directors accepts Editor's resignation
 
23 Enigma
2006-03-08 5:32:58 AM  
I'm not a Christian, yet I find the idea of this cartoon offensive because it insults the belief-system of other people.

Nonetheless, I also think that anyone has the right and priviledge to make jokes about any old damn thing they choose without no fear of retribution or "laws" being imposed on their free speech.
 
k405
2006-03-08 5:33:53 AM  
and? like everyone didn't know jesus felated pigs.
 
Hiymenator
2006-03-08 5:37:57 AM  
One day, this will be in the Bible:

And when they nail my pimpled ass to the cross
I'll tell them I found Jesus that should throw them off
He goes by the name Jesus and steals hubcaps from cars
Oh Jesus can I borrow your crowbar?
To pry these God damn nails out they're beginning to hurt
Crucified and all I got was this lousy T-shirt
"I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!" I'll sing as I'm flogged
Yeah that's what I would do if I were God
So vote for me for Savior and you'll go to Heaven
Your lame duck Lord is like Kevin Spacey in "Seven"
With creepy threats of H-E-Double-Hockey-Stick
You just can't teach an old God new tricks
But would I be a good Messiah with my low self-esteem?
If I don't believe in myself would that be blasphemy?
Just sport some crummy "holier than thou" facade
Yeah that's what I would do if I were God
 
jpbreon
2006-03-08 5:39:23 AM  
Going with dudemanbro on this one. Attention whoring.

I imagine lots of people in that place look for attention, seems like a lonely place.
 
NewHere
2006-03-08 5:44:09 AM  
So where's the flood of pics of Jesus blowing a pig?

If it's okay to post the Muhammed pics in every thread mentioning Islam surely it's okay to post Jesus-pig-secks in this one.
 
keytronic
2006-03-08 5:44:13 AM  
The editor of that newspaper will be lucky if he doesn't find himself expelled for this. A story like this may or may not get wind and become the outrage of the week. If it does, I suspect the university will come down hard on whoever approved the publication of that cartoon.
 
Wulfhardt
2006-03-08 5:47:27 AM  
Yup. Just some stupid kid attention-whoring.
 
jpbreon
2006-03-08 5:48:01 AM  
NewHere

Surely you could troll better than that. Not one post here has stated it was wrong to show cartoons of Jesus.
 
Cyber_Junk
2006-03-08 5:48:48 AM  
[image from smalldeadanimals.com too old to be available]

/admit it, you were curious to see it
 
i am the infidel
2006-03-08 5:50:47 AM  
FluffyPanda: I don't get it.

Could it be the contrast between societies?

Look at it this way:

One society, when faced with offencive (I had to put the "c" in thier because they are Canadian and it is more offencive) cartoons published in a paper will either ignore it or have individuals resign that post.

The other society (I prefer to call them "the religon of peace") firebombs embassies, blame countries that had nothing to do with it (no major news paper that I know of even published them in the USA) and kill dozens of people (mostly thier own countrymen).

It is quit the contrast, I would think.
 
Esn
2006-03-08 5:50:54 AM  
I don't get it.

Are they blaming jesus for excessive commercialism? Or was it just a cheap excuse for a religios blowjob joke?

I believe that the cartoon is saying that Christianity is about making money nowadays (and it has a point, IMHO - much of it is).

Why don't any of the cartoons in these student-run papers ever get inked? Ah well. :P

I don't think there's anything that offensive about the cartoon - as I said, Jesus is just portrayed as a symbol of the religion here, so it's not actually directed AT him.

Then again, I'm not easily offended.
 
Bugsi
2006-03-08 5:53:35 AM  
That's farking funny as hell.

/I think man created God in his own [man's] image.
//Prove me wrong, I dare ya.
 
i am the infidel
2006-03-08 5:55:59 AM  
Bugsi: I think man created God in his own [man's] image.

You must have read the liner notes from Jethro Tull's "Aqualung".

/good album
 
Esn
2006-03-08 5:57:46 AM  
i am the infidel, offensive is not spelled with a "c" in Canada. Offence is, offensive is not. Yes, it's strange.

Also, the Muslim protests were really not about the cartoon. Sure, they SAY it was, just like the "official" reason for WW1 was the assassination of some aristocrat or other. But in both cases, it's obvious that the real causes are quite different (WW1, an emergent Germany as the only major European nation without colonies - the protests, general anger at the West that needs only the tiniest fuse to set it off).
 
Labrat407
2006-03-08 5:57:52 AM  
Begs the question, WWJD? Spit or Swallow?
 
FluffyPanda
2006-03-08 6:01:05 AM  
i am the infidel: The other society (I prefer to call them "the religon of peace") firebombs embassies, blame countries that had nothing to do with it (no major news paper that I know of even published them in the USA) and kill dozens of people (mostly thier own countrymen).

I think you're confusing society and religion. The religion doesn't support these actions, but the society in which the religion is most prevailant is unfortunately rather volatile.

Esn: I believe that the cartoon is saying that Christianity is about making money nowadays (and it has a point, IMHO - much of it is).

Ok, that makes sense.
 
i am the infidel
2006-03-08 6:02:43 AM  
Esn: it's obvious that the real causes are quite different

So, what was the RoP's reasons for rioting over a stick figure?

/Gotta go walk the dog. I'll be back.
 
Dubya's_Coke_Dealer
2006-03-08 6:06:40 AM  
Saskatchewan gots a paper?
 
Bhruic
2006-03-08 6:07:50 AM  
Esn: I believe that the cartoon is saying that Christianity is about making money nowadays

Nowadays? When wasn't it?
 
L8knight
2006-03-08 6:07:55 AM  
OMG!!!! Everyone run outside and burn down Canadian owned businesses, attack people on the streets, and overturn cars with Canadian plates!!! We must avenge our lord!!! We want the person who drew this cartoon executed!!!

/Why isn't this on CNN and every major news network?
//although a drawing of a bomb strapped to his head would have been MUCH worse
 
Esn
2006-03-08 6:08:16 AM  
i am the infidel:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/02/12/​do1205.x ml&sSheet=/opinion/2006/02/12/ixop.html

Check this out, it may bring understanding if not sympathy.

Very nice article (sorry, I don't know how to link).
 
Esn
2006-03-08 6:10:44 AM  
Interesting quote from the aforementioned link:

Criticism and questioning were forbidden. When I did either of these, I was told: "Muslims cannot love the enemies of God, and those who do will get no mercy in hell." As a young woman, I visited a Christian friend in Cairo during Friday prayers, and we both heard the verbal attacks on Christians and Jews from the loudspeakers outside the mosque. They said: "May God destroy the infidels and the Jews, the enemies of God. We are not to befriend them or make treaties with them." We heard worshippers respond "Amen".

My friend looked scared; I was ashamed. That was when I first realised that something was very wrong in the way my religion was taught and practised. Sadly, the way I was raised was not unique. Hundreds of millions of other Muslims also have been raised with the same hatred of the West and Israel as a way to distract from the failings of their leaders. Things have not changed since I was a little girl in the 1950s.
 
ComaToast [OhFark]
2006-03-08 6:10:59 AM  
Well I am outraged ! I'm hopping on the next flight to Pakistan to burn down a KFC !!
 
hogans
2006-03-08 6:14:49 AM  
[image from townhalltheatre.org too old to be available]
 
thatguyfred
2006-03-08 6:15:24 AM  
I shall throw rocks and burn down buildin... wait. Nope don't give a shiat. Seems like Muslims freak out like no other.
 
i am the infidel
2006-03-08 6:16:14 AM  
Esn: Things have not changed since I was a little girl in the 1950s.

When I cutted and pasted that link, I got the IFIA. The only way things will get better is for "moderate" muslims (if there is such a thing) to start taking thier religon back.

Change must come from within.
 
shoestringz
2006-03-08 6:16:43 AM  
rioting in canadastan kills many! boycotts and sanctions forthcoming!
 
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