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There is apparently an exhibition in the Gallery of Modern Art (Goma) in Glasgow, entitled Made in God’s Image.

It encourages people to deface the Bible in the name of art — and obliging visitors have responded with predictable abuse and obscenity. This can come as no surprise to the ‘artists’, who included in their creation a video of a woman ripping pages from the Bible and stuffing them into her bra, knickers and mouth.

Cranmer has never been one for the burning of books, a logical corollary of which must be the freedom to burn a book if one so wishes, or place a rasher of bacon within it and call it ‘art’.

But when that book is burned with taxpayer subsidy, the offence is multiplied a thousandfold, for the good people of Glasgow are forcibly paying for the desecration of a sacred book, and they are therefore unwittingly complicit. This, to Cranmer, would be a just reason not to render unto Caesar.

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Bizarrely, or naively, the exhibit, Untitled 2009, was proposed by the Metropolitan Community Church, which ‘celebrates racial, cultural, linguistic, sexual, gender and theological diversity’. Their idea was to reclaim the Bible as a sacred text: they simply wanted those who ‘felt excluded’ from its pages to ‘write themselves in’.

And so one writer has altered the first line of Genesis from ‘In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth’ to 'In the beginning, God (me) I created religion.’ Another has written ‘The Gospel According to Luke Skywalker’ (Cranmer suspects one of the Jedi fraternity). But the principal expression has been one of blaspemous derision: one message says ‘F*** the Bible’.

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A spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church said: “One wonders whether the organisers would have been quite as willing to have the Koran defaced.”

Answer: ‘No’.

Reason: ‘Most Christians are a pushover; some Muslims are likely to riot, cause criminal damage or threaten death’.

A British National Party election candidate accused of publicly burning a copy of the Koran was freed today when the charge against him was unexpectedly dropped.

Sion Owens (41) of Bonymaen, Swansea, South Wales, was arrested and charged at the weekend under Britain's Public Order Act.

The BNP candidate in next month’s Welsh Assembly elections spent the weekend in custody before appearing at Swansea Magistrates’ Court.

He was warned today that police are continuing to investigate the alleged incident and to expect further action.

It is understood that his release was due to a technicality regarding the Act under which he was arrested and charged.

Well EH, it isn't that long ago that our friend Zubber posted two images which greatly offended me.

Major sense of humour failure for the old Muslims!

Berrin wrote:..those pictures were explaining one thing to me and that is how far the western disbelivers could stretch themselves to turn religion into mokery and fun (entertainment), messing with belivers emotions.(And I think this is what zubber wanted to display when it also wasn't the right thing to do for him as well.)
....and that just shows how insincere you are at your feelings which I call total hypocracy..

While condemning Zubber from one side of your mouth, you can justify Zubber's pictures.

Well, if someone who isn't Muslim (and could be considered a disbeliever in Islam) could put a spin on BM's pictures and call it "humor", would you accept it?

And you call BM a hypocrite??

Berrin wrote:

While condemning Zubber from one side of your mouth, you can justify Zubber's pictures.

No madam, it is not justifying, it is trying to understand his motives behind pasting such pictures..
What I think he was trying to express was that while bible is a holy book as it is (bible picture),some people could indeed take something out of holy, to be a mere subject of ridicule (entertainment).(picture depicts prophet jesus with arms streched out and mocking words on it)
Should zubber have repeated the same ridicule on an open forum in pursuit to demonstrate how religion can be used for entertainment? No ofcourse not..Islam forbids to reveal rudeness performed by others. We are meant to be covering not revealing..

Well, if someone who isn't Muslim (and could be considered a disbeliever in Islam) could put a spin on BM's pictures and call it "humor", would you accept it?

The problem with some disbelievers is that becouse they don't care or have great sense of what religion is teaching, they go with their own self professed instincts..They look at things from one prespective (in this case trying to find homour) and ignore the other, when it actually can mean a lot to others in terms of ethics, as well as belief in messengers that are representative figures of divine message.

And you call BM a hypocrite??

Noone can be called hypocrite unless they conciously display kind of attitude that resembles hypocrisy.