Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Stubbornly remaining ...

... Why artists can't resist the lure of Christianity. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

A simple case can be made for this imbalance: outside of Northern Ireland, the discussion or dramatisation of Catholicism is unlikely to risk inciting violence by extremist believers or nonbelievers. Depiction of Islam, though, does raise this possibility.
In other words, there isn't anything really transgressive about an irreverent take on Christianity. It's just so much posturing.

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