My view of "Draw Mohammad Day", expressed by analogy.

[daibhidc]

I don't think there's anything wrong with drawing a picture of the Christian God as a man in robes with a big white beard. Or however else you wish to draw him.

I'm less sure about doing so for no other reason than to piss off the Free Church of Scotland.

Comments

[rhiannon-s.livejournal.com]

but the Wee Frees react in such a wonderfully funny OTT manner...it's like when they oppose Sunday ferry services just because they can walk on water.

[rob-t-firefly.livejournal.com]

I have no quarrel with the Free Church of Scotland. If they tried to limit my freedom to create art which doesn't fit their belief system, however, I would suddenly feel an overwhelming urge to piss them off, and I would feel quite justified in doing so.

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

I do have a bit of a quarrel with the Free Church of Scotland. (I choose my analogies carefully.) The bit about Sunday ferries rhiannon alludes to above, for example.

Well, it'd be more accurate to say I have a quarrel with some members of the Free Church of Scotland. I'm sure there are many Wee Frees who have no problem with Sunday ferries, as long as they aren't forced to take them[1].

So I'm not convinced the best way to protest the Wee Free attempts to cancel the ferry to Lewis would be to dance around the island on Sunday shouting "Look at me! I'm doing stuff on the Sabbath and there's nothing you can do to stop me!" In fact, I'd probably call it counter-productive, since its main effect would be to piss off the above moderates who, unlike the stern Kirk Elders, don't already exist in a state of permenant pissed-offness.

[1]Well, fairly sure. Actually, I'm a lot surer about the existence of moderate Muslims, so for the purpose of the analogy...