Quote Originally Posted by Thorne View Post
Just ran across this video. Pretty much explains what we've all been talking about, doesn't it?
Yes, mostly a good overview.

On the theme of why xtians want others to follow their path:

Catholics Protest ‘Blasphemous’ Play in Paris

"Catholic demonstrators in Paris have turned out in force to protest a play they call ‘blasphemous.’"

"Paris’s archbishop, André Vingt-Trois, has called Golgota Picnic, which he had not seen, “deliberately offensive.” Demonstrators who marched on the theatre Sunday bore banners reading ‘France is Christian and must remain so,’ and ‘That’s enough Christianophobia.’"

"Both authorities and art lovers are concerned about a rise in fundamentalist religious protest action against some of France’s most high-profile theatres, including pelting the audience with eggs, letting off stinkbombs and the invasion of the stage of Paris’s esteemed Théâtre de la Ville."

"In 1988, a Paris cinema screening Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ was firebombed. The attack injured 13 people, four of whom were severely burned."

"Earlier this year, photographs including Piss Christ by the New York artist Andres Serrano were destroyed at a gallery in Avignon."

"Authorities are concerned about connections between younger fundamentalists, who have been staging protests all over France, and the far-right. Hardline Christianist groups are believed to have broken with the National Front since it was taken over by Jean-Marie Le Pen’s daughter Marine.

The Théâtre de Rond-Point’s Jean-Michel Ribes said the role of artists was to fight against “suffocating dogma.”

French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterand said that while he was “very attached to the Christian tradition” in France, the right to freedom of thought and the separation of church and state needed to be protected “at all costs.”

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/catholic...#ixzz1gVYU15xU


Fundamentalism can start with grumping about what you call things officially. It should be stopped right there.