Ostracism began in Greece. What goes around, comes around. I suggest painting yourself as Jesus and the Greek Orthodox theologians as the Sanhedrin, setting the court of the Sanhedrin in the interior of a teapot.
This whole thing sounds like a joke! But still, it wouldn't be the first time ignorant and evil men hid behind religion. Isn't ignorance, hatred and vengeance worse threats to christianity (or mankind) than a comic book? In my oppinion politics and religion should not be mixed in the first place. Scary!
Who is any church, any religion, or any believers of a religion to voice out against a comic book that is doing no harm to anyone? What are they afraid of? Why don't people lighten up about things instead of creating wars on everything? Maybe the old ways just aren't working anymore!!! Evolution didn't end with us growing thumbs and watching television!!!
Vote Greece out of the EU! :P ... just kidding! Although we shouldn't be kidding about such matters, or soon we will ba faced with the same sort of religious paranoia (and terrorist paranoia) that do not allow people to breathe as they wish in the US... Please, please! People! WAKE UP!!!!!!
Isn't that austrians were the far right wing peasants of europe just few years ago? Hmm, now they are the liberal artists...
The greek law is nevertheless paranoid and laughable. But hearing some austrians teaching "democracy" to the Greeks is even more. They cannot even pronounce the word right...
I can't believe this happened. I am deeply ashamed of such an act. I sure that this is the work of an extremist judge and it is definetely not in the name of the Greek people.
As EU citizen, this scares me a lot. I've accepted that there will always be some idiots on the streets who cannot grasp the concept of freedom of speech, but member state governments destroying it is simply unacceptable.
Greeks are stupid. Why do they care what he says about Jesus Christ. Ignorant assholes hate it when people tell the truth, don't they. They must be pussy's afraid of people learning what really went down. By putting this harmless cartoonist in jail only serves as proof that it may actually be the truth and quite frankly, I think the public is sick of being lied to all the time. And everyone knows this is what stupid politicians(includes the court and all other forms of government)think they jobs are, and that is to hide all truth. They are fearful and think if they can control our thinking - well they will. I've had enough, have you?
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Since the days of Socrates, condemned to death for blasphemy, nothing seems to have changed in Greece. High time for a real separation of church and state, be it in Greece, USA, Israel or Islamic states. Freedom of (un-)belief is a real human right!
In the "original" land of DEMOCRACY and FREE THINKING, you people have completely lost all of your MARBLES!!!! Jesus is a pretty tough individual, he can take a little ribbing here and there....really.
this strange fable of taking a man to trial because of his drawings of the jesus seems strange for the land that invented democracy...being a religious hardliner really sucks...
Being a greek and reading this makes me feel sad. Strange,our church is facing a crisis these days because of high-priests wearing thongs and doing things that even tv is ashamed to show.Now that's hypocrisy!I fully support this guy
He has the right to draw and publish what he wants to. The goverment of Greece can`t judge him for "So called crime" he made in a
different country. The whole thing sounds like something from the dark ages. Gree court are making joke of themselfes.
Early religious art was portrayed by artists, who were commissioned by the church to represent religious icons and events the way the church wanted. It was the Impressionist movement that allowed artists to break free of those constraints. Greece has obviously not caught up with the times.
This conviction goes against the ideas of the European Union. Blasphemy is a strictly religious charge, and has no place in European law, especially in the context of satire.
This prosecution is as absurd as it is barbaric; the very notion that one's freedom to express a personal perspective can be subject to the whim of a foreign state's judiciary is tantamount to a return to the evil days of the Spanish Inquisition.
The whole idea that a foreign country can jail a person for something that is legal in your own country is absurd and scary. What's more: in an enlightened society in the 21'st century any religion can only be seen as a sign of stupidity - modern thinking transcended this long ago. The law of blasphemy should be removed from all law.
Apart from the obvious freedom of speech issue, it is apalling that someone can create a work of art perfectly legally in his own country and then be sentenced to a prison term by another.
I wish to see the artist remain free. It is not the function of art, nor has it ever been, to avoid offending overly sensitive people in foreign cultures.
