The Innocence Of Christians

William Dafoe as Christ in Scorcese's film

This was Pat Robertsons anti Muslim rant last week after the violence began to spred in response to the deliberately provocative scam, The Innocence of Muslims. He claimed that Muslims respond violently because they cannot deal criticism of their religion because they have no logic to deal with it. In his words, "They are possessed with the spirit of a wild donkey". This is now, this is Robertson, the senile propagandist spinning his own illogical, manipulative religious scam in 2012.

In 1988, Martin Scorcese released the film, The Last Temptation of Christ. A film that dealt with attempting to depict and portray the humanity of Jesus Christ. You cannot compare the cheap piece of manipulative propaganda trash, The Innocence of Muslims to Scorcese's intelligent film, which tried to depict a compelling psychological depiction of Christian belief...in other words, Scorcese tried to present Christ as a human and analyze the emotional reality....it is impossible.

The controversial photo PISS CHRIST earned
Richard Serrano a hailstorm of outrage. It was
vandalized in in the early 90's in A NYC Gallery, and
 more recently, earlier this year in Avignon, France,
where it became the object of demonstrations by French
Fundamentalist Catholic protestors. This perceived
controversy was exploited by Nicolas Sarkozy and
Marine LePen in their failed attempts to exploit
Fundamentalist Christian sentiment for political
gain.

The Cover of Kazantzakis book

But, none the less in 1988, Pat Robertson condemned the film as ‘an offence to a hundred million Christians. It ridicules and blasphemes the faith that we have all committed our lives to'. Christian fundamentalists like Robertson organised a major protest outside Universal Studios. Ironically, they parked their cars in the studio car park, generating $4,500 in parking charges for the studio. Another protestor, Bill Bright of the Campus Crusade for Christ, offered the studio $10 million to allow him to destroy the film. In 1989, Albuquerque high school teacher Joyce Briscoe found herself at the centre of controversy when she screened the film for students at La Cueva High School, thus provoking the wrath of the student’s parents and local Christian radio station KLYT.
On 22nd October 1988, a French Catholic Christian fundamentalist group firebombed the Saint Michel cinema in Paris severely burning four people and injuring a further nine. A similar attack was staged In Besancon, the capital of the Franche-Comté region, and tear gas was released in other French cinemas.    This is the same group responsible for the vandalism of the Andre Serrano exhibition in Avignon earlier this year and the Front National supported demonstrations embraced by Nicolas Sarkozy.
In Greece, the homeland of the novelist Nikos Kazantzakis, on whose book the film was based, Archbishop Iakovos, the primate of the Greek Othodox Church, called for a boycott of the film (Kazantzakis was excommunicated as a heretic by the Greek Orthodox Church, and the book placed in the Catholic Church’s index of forbidden books when it was first published).
The film was banned in many countries, including Argentina, Chile, Ireland, Israel, Mexico and Turkey, and bans remain in place in the Philippines, Singapore and South Africa. Even in more liberal countries such as Britain, the film has been the centre of much controversy; as late as 1992 the House of Lords was questioning the wisdom of the BBC’s decision to screen the film on national television...
The Innocence of Muslims, indeed....
The Hypocrisy of Christians......