{"id":42933,"date":"2015-01-18T16:52:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T16:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42933"},"modified":"2015-01-18T16:52:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T16:52:46","slug":"not-paris-much-nearer-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42933","title":{"rendered":"Not Paris, much nearer home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; religious satire USA, plus two Charlie Hebdo resources ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Jesus-dinosaur-detail-602.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Jesus-dinosaur-detail-602.jpg\" alt=\"Jesus dinosaur detail 602\" width=\"602\" height=\"339\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Jesus-dinosaur-detail-602.jpg 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Jesus-dinosaur-detail-602-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t realized that comic book satire had entered the <strong>religion vs science<\/strong> debate &#8212; foolish of me, it&#8217;s an obvious medium for the task:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jesus-and-darwin-602.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jesus-and-darwin-602.jpg\" alt=\"jesus-and-darwin 602\" width=\"602\" height=\"455\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jesus-and-darwin-602.jpg 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jesus-and-darwin-602-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here for total impact is the full page of Jesus riding the dinosaur (detail above), text included:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jesusdinosaur-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jesusdinosaur-large.jpg\" alt=\"jesusdinosaur large\" width=\"600\" height=\"899\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jesusdinosaur-large.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/jesusdinosaur-large-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have to say, neither these nor the <strong>Charlie Hebdo<\/strong> and <strong>Jyllands-Posten<\/strong> cartoons disturb me personally &#8212; but in our discussions of free speech and blasphemy, I think the voices of those who may be offended deserve a hearing.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources and Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/popperfont.net\/2012\/05\/16\/did-jesus-ride-on-a-dinosaur\/\">Popperfont<\/a>, Did Jesus ride on a dinosaur?\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/files\/2013\/04\/jesus-and-darwin1.jpg\">Beliefnet<\/a>, Jesus and Darwin fight\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/galleries\/2011\/11\/02\/charlie-hebdo-french-satire-magazine-s-shocking-covers-photos.html#viewAll\">Daily Beast<\/a>, 16 most \u2018shocking\u2019 Charlie Hebdo covers\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.understandingcharliehebdo.com\/\">Understanding Charlie Hebdo<\/a>, Charlie Hebdo&#8217;s satire<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; religious satire USA, plus two Charlie Hebdo resources ] . ** I hadn&#8217;t realized that comic book satire had entered the religion vs science debate &#8212; foolish of me, it&#8217;s an obvious medium for the task: And here for total impact is the full page of Jesus riding the dinosaur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,579,1146,526,497,901,52,294,753,717,533,868,267,32,676,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-archaeology","category-blasphemy","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-comics","category-france","category-historiography","category-islam","category-judaism","category-religion","category-sacred","category-satire","category-science","category-scriptures","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42933"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42941,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42933\/revisions\/42941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}