A lone Christian nut has issued a death threat to a Swedish newspaper editor for running an editorial cartoon depicting the devil defecating on Jesus.

I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating: anyone who violates Christian teachings, as espoused in Scripture, even in the name of God himself, is by definition not a Christian.

A lone Christian nut has issued a death threat

Hey, he’s just jumping on the bandwagon. He saw all the great results the muslims got… fear works. Threats work.

Of course Christians have their individual lunatics. No one has ever argued otherwise. Threatening death to someone over the publication of a cartoon practically defines the notion of lunacy and mindless zealotry. Anyone sending such threats to Sigvardsson should get themselves fitted for a tight-fitting jacket with extra long sleevers or at least get sent to prison for a while.
posted at 3:10 pm on March 11, 2008 by Ed Morrissey

Well, du-uh. This is the opinion that any sane person holds. But how many Muslims are publically saying the same thing about Osama bin Ladin, let alone a random Internet crackpot?

Of course there are crazy Christians and sane Muslims. The big difference is that among Muslims, the inmates are running the asylum.

It’s we religious folks who ought to be sleeping with one eye open. Secular atheism is the most deadly ideology the world has ever seen.

I think secular atheists ought to be grateful at how tolerant we are of them.

The difference is this: The muslim who issues death threats is celebrated. The muslim who issues and executes his death threats is a hero to his church and his people.

In the West, if a Christian does this, he is hunted down, arrested, sent to court and likely faces incarceration or death himself.

The moral relativism of the Left disgusts me.

I would argue that it took Christians some time to learn not to be offended. We use to enforce blasphemy laws in the West; America had Anthony Comstock–a censor as bad as any Ayotollah. But we learned not to take things so seriously–after a long series of deliberate efforts to offend people. Now, almost no one is alarmed by a piss Christ. The muslims are just starting this learning process.

thuja on March 11, 2008 at 6:09 PM

I applaud the Danes/Swedes for publishing the mohammad cartoons. Though it was antagonistic, someone needed to hold the mirror. I just wish the, ok, I’m gonna say it, pussies, in the U.S. media would have had their backs and published them on the front page of every paper here.

And do we really know it was a Christian that made the threat, and not someone from CAIR

donsingleton on March 11, 2008 at 4:14 PM

Good point.

The person said they wanted someone else to slit the guy’s throat. That’s not really a death threat, so much as a horrible wish. Also, by saying that Jesus will deal with him if no one else will, isn’t the guy saying right there that he’s not going to slit the editor’s throat. I don’t really see the death threat anywhere in there.

Now, I don’t believe the above story is true, but it’s certainly vastly more credible than what the moral equivalence retards peddle. They deserve our contempt.

You have heard that it was said, “Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.”
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you (Matthew 5:43-44).

But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you (Luke 6:27-28).

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse (Romans 12:14).

Any “Christian” who thinks Jesus would have anything to do with slitting someone’s throat needs to reread the New Testament a few dozen times and stop skipping over the parts where Jesus talks about love and forgiveness. Threatening to kill someone over a little thing like a cartoon is one of the most un-Christ-like things I can imagine.

According to John Murtha, they’re in the Marines.

SlimyBill on March 11, 2008 at 5:41 PM

Heh, I give this one a 10, ya nailed it SlimyBill!

So where is the Suicide bombers and headchoppers in Chrisitianity ?

_
According to John Murtha, they’re in the Marines.

Muslims also regard Jesus as a sacred prophet.

Or allow each man to marry up to three more women each. Hillary, how’d you like to share Bill with Jennifer, Dolly and Monica?

Bigfoot on March 11, 2008 at 4:23 PM

She already has. rimshot

Y’all have been great. I’ll be here all week. Please tip your bloghost, and try the veal!

How can we expect a leftie to reconize the differance between death threats, world wide demostrations and riots and one lone death threat, no demostration and no riots??? That would be too much to expect.

He said one person had left a message saying he wanted to see the editor’s throat slit and that “if no one dealt with it, then Jesus would do it”.

I always thought that Jesus needed to kick a little more ass, myself too. This peaceful crap is b-o-r-i-n-g.

Trying to discuss the rise of Sharia law with these people is pointless. “It’s a religion of peace”, they say. “It’s a small percentage”, they repeat. “It’s a neocon plot”, they muse. This politicalization of national defense will be the death of us.