Indian state confiscates 'blasphemous' Jesus textbooks

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Indian state confiscates 'blasphemous' Jesus textbooks

This image is causing controversy in India

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8524043.stm

 

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Dude, it's India. It should

Dude, it's India. It should have been Cobra or Kingfisher beer.


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Censorship rears it's ugly

Censorship rears it's ugly head again.

 

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While I think it's funny

While I think it's funny it's certainly not appropriate to have religious icons

in cursive texts.    I don't care if he's holding a cigarette and a beer or if he's holding communion wafers and wine.

Leave Jesus out of schoolbooks entirely.

If you want to hang this in an art gallery or an appropriate venue then fine but mixing it with education even in a derogatory

way is giving life to this myth.

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Don't you love how these

Don't you love how these guys are wielding imperial power and screaming about being persecuted at the same time?

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Quote:"We are deeply hurt by

Quote:
"We are deeply hurt by the insensitivity of the publisher. How can one show such total disrespect for a religion?" asked Dominic Jala, the Archbishop of Shillong.

 

OK, that is way too easy.  But I will do it anyway.

 

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