More clerics taking time out from feeding the poor
From theregister.co.uk: Catholic priests cane YouTube over blasphemous vids
And it seems even the US priests accept this, hence their recourse to a little moral blackmail, by highlighting YouTube’s caving into Jewish protests recently over a video showing a teenager urinating on a Holocaust memorial in Greece. After five days of pressure YouTube duly removed the vid.
Maybe, just maybe, a memorial to commemorate the lives and remember the mass murder of real people, whose children are still living, is deserving of protection in a way that symbolic cream crackers used within superstitious rites simply aren’t. Are the complaining priests aware that to those of us occupying a more, er, objective standpoint, there’s a qualitative difference between their concern over a childish insult and the memories of people murdered within a holocaust that their church was infamously ambivalent about?
It amazes me that so many professional Christians, and I was raised within a Christian culture even if I wasn’t imprinted with metaphysical belief by my parents, really are far down the stack when it comes to being secure in their beliefs. If a Zen priest saw a video of a man flushing a statue of Buddha down a toilet, he’d be more likely to email him the number of a good plumber than to write angry letters to YouTube. “But Sir! Sir! You did it for Weinstein, it’s not fair, Sir!!!”
Honestly, grow up, the lot of you! And send a delegation to Japan to learn how truly spiritual men and women behave when confronted by ignorance or irritation. I think you’ll find it an instructive and humbling experience.
Let’s hope that YouTube replies using the Scott Adams method.
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