Originally posted by popsadie:
I asked Moore about this topic during the question and answer segment...he said he didn't mean it to be as offensive as some of you guys see it and that it was an example of Irish Catholic humour. Perhaps it was a poor example...but an example none the less. Megan
Hi Megan, thanks for asking him. For the record, the following are the bits I find particularly offensive, and why:
"I mean, for Christ's sake, a guy got nailed to death on a cross!"
Using the Lord's name in vain, when discussing something as holy as Christ's sacrifice. I don't find the "play on words" funny at all.
"Instead, we get his corpse hammered into wood and hung above every altar."
Speaking of the crucifixion and of Christ's grand sacrfice irreverantly.
"It's like the Democrats deciding to replace the donkey as their symbol with JFK's brains being blown out the back of his head. Who'd vote for the candidate with that image next to his or her name on the ballot?"
Once again, speaking in an irreverant and flippant tone about The Lord's sacrifice.
What really chaps my hide about the above three quotes is not that Moore doesn't seem to understand why Christians and Catholics concentrate so much on the crucifixion. If he had asked the questions simply, as in "Why do Christians concentrate on the crucufixion", I would have been glad to send him a letter explaining why. It's the way he words the questions that offends; he purposefully uses language that belittles Christians and the faith. Maybe that's just the way he wrods thing; well, he ought to be careful when he talks about things as important and dear to people's hearts as their faith.
the "yours from inside his own private golgotha" quote was just icing on the cake for me. Here he had been, carrying on in his insulting way about Christians (particularly Catholics) and the importance we place on the cross, and then has the nerve to compare his problems to the suffering of Christ on the cross. The gall of the man!
There, those are the main things about this article that I find offensive.