Oh, okay, I get it, and yeah, they should be like modern day Christians. Christians are comfortable enough in their knowledge I'm going to burn in hell, that that don't mind if I mock jesus every now and then.
Yeah. I thought what you said was ridiculous. As if the only alternatives to do towards someone who feels offended, god or otherwise, is to satirize them or cower to them.
I support the right to mock things and publish cartoons about them, all that's part of free speech. I don't support murdering artists.
I also don't support simplistic thinking.
I didn't intend the only alternative is to cowering is to satirize them, but to stop satirizing them for fear of death is in fact cowering. I also have trouble criticizing a public reaction to people being murdered. It's not simplistic thinking, it's emotional, and I don't believe one has anything to do with the other. This isn't about thinking sensibly, not about governments or politics, it's a matter of the general public standing up and saying enough is enough. When that little town in Missouri was burning to the ground, I thought the rioters were in the wrong in their reaction, acting like stupid animals attacking people who had nothing to do with it, but I still feel wrong to criticize it like that. I know the circumstances of the two situations are different, but if the mosques of Paris were ablaze over this, I would see it as very similar.