2011-04-03

Tim Minchin on The Good Book, Brains Falling Out and Loving Jesus

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by Neil Godfrey

In a world of book-burning bigots and murderous mobs it’s necessary to come up for some comedy air – – –

The Good Book

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If you open your mind too much. . . .

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I love Jesus

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Geoff Hudson says:

2011-04-03 22:56:35 GMT+0000 at 22:56

The good book must be the Koran!

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Bob Carlson says:

2011-04-04 08:25:22 GMT+0000 at 08:25

In a world of book-burning bigots and murderous mobs

If Fareed Zakaria is right, there really weren’t any mobs:

The senior UN official in Afghanistan said that there was abundant evidence that the killings were not the result of out-of-control mobs but rather deliberate acts of murder by Taliban militia.

Keep in mind that these protests have been extremely small by Afghan standards – not a single one had more than 100 people at it, according to the U.S. army spokesman.

So it’s politics as much as religion at work here.

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1. Neil Godfrey says:
  
  2011-04-04 09:32:21 GMT+0000 at 09:32
  
  Absolutely. A simple test to see if it is the Moslem religion per se that is to blame for attacks on western targets is to observe that these sorts of attacks were unknown for most of the time Moslems and westerners have been around. The association of these attacks with political and military scenarios is as plain as day.
  
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Geoff Hudson says:

2011-04-04 18:55:23 GMT+0000 at 18:55

I find Minchin very distasteful. Do you think he would be brave enough to sing a song “I love Mohammed”?

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1. Neil Godfrey says:
  
  2011-04-04 21:36:01 GMT+0000 at 21:36
  
  Then you would be advised to avoid Chicago’s Lincoln Hall between 14th and 18th June this year: http://www.timminchin.com/2011/03/30/chicagos-just-for-laughs/
  
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  1. Geoff Hudson says:
    
    2011-04-04 23:55:50 GMT+0000 at 23:55
    
    Are you Minchin’s agent?
    
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  2. Geoff Hudson says:
    
    2011-04-05 21:08:52 GMT+0000 at 21:08
    
    How come you know so much about what is going on in Chicago?
    
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