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2007-03-28 Great White North

Choir to depict bible hero as a suicide bomber

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Posted by Steve 2007-03-28 09:25|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1
Oy.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-03-28 10:01|| 2007-03-28 10:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Vey

Posted by Thinemp Whimble 2007-03-28 10:13|| 2007-03-28 10:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Mr. Capet says presenting Samson as a terrorist is not meant to offend anyone

What a fuktard in the most complete liberal "let's pretend" vein. These are the exact same boneless twits that would shudder at the thought of even looking at a Muhammad cartoon.

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-03-28 10:13|| 2007-03-28 10:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Not meant to offend just blur the line between good and evil.

The video, How Modern Liberals Think, that made the rounds yesterday really hit the nail on the head.

Posted by danking_70 2007-03-28 10:31|| 2007-03-28 10:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh!.....canada.

Posted by RWV 2007-03-28 10:55|| 2007-03-28 10:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Huh. As I recall, Samson was betrayed, captured, blinded, enslaved, and then brought to the temple for ritual humiliation. And then he pulled it down. He didn't walk into the temple dressed as a worshipper and pull it down when no one was looking.

Wikipedia has the Samson story. Check especially the part about Samson's wedding to a Philistine woman. Sounds like a typical Palestinian affair. (Although Wikipedia also says the Philistines were Greeks.)

Posted by Angie Schultz 2007-03-28 11:07|| 2007-03-28 11:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Accounts pending.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-28 11:15|| 2007-03-28 11:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Not meant to offend...

Attempts to create discussion are always designed to offend someone.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-03-28 11:55|| 2007-03-28 11:55|| Front Page Top

#9 it will be edgy when they take on Islam. Until then it is just another bunch of wanna-be's misbehaving because that is the only way they can get attention. How tiresome.

It is a weird quirk in our culture that zero talent and zero skill can pretend to be "art" as long as it steps outside the bounds of decency or taste.

I can vomit on the sidewalk and call it art, but it still stinks.

Posted by Fester Jomons8988 2007-03-28 12:15|| 2007-03-28 12:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Why don't he set it in 2007? Have Samson destroy a Gaza cesspool causing massive floods or something?

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-28 12:20|| 2007-03-28 12:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Wikipedia ... which can be edited by anyone.

"Mr. Capet says presenting Samson as a terrorist is not meant to offend anyone or point the finger at one group"

Yeah, uh huh... but after hearing for the last few decades that it DOES NOT matter whether you INTEND to offend, I really don't care what Mr. Capet has to say about it. I'm offended, and I demand reparations! That, and the Victoria Philharmonic Choir get rid of their mascot.

Or something like that. (I'm not really good at this yet; maybe I can get a grant in Victim Studies to get better!)

Posted by eLarson 2007-03-28 12:56|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-03-28 12:56|| Front Page Top

#12 what Angie Schutz said.

Posted by liberalhawk 2007-03-28 13:18|| 2007-03-28 13:18|| Front Page Top

#13 the first paragraph, that is

Posted by liberalhawk 2007-03-28 13:18|| 2007-03-28 13:18|| Front Page Top

#14 First it must be determined if Samson's grievances were Legitimate.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-03-28 15:08|| 2007-03-28 15:08|| Front Page Top

#15 But in what's sure to be a controversial interpretation of the story, a Victoria choir will next month present Samson as a suicide bomber.

I trust that when they say, "controversial interpretation", they really mean "perversion".

This is the usual moral equivalency bullshit. Actually, this goes beyond the typical bovine fecal matter to an illegitimate argumentive method called, "tu quoque". It is a form of argumentum ad hominem which seeks to justify wrongdoing by assigning similar conduct to the accuser.

Portraying Sampson as a vest bomber merely seeks to ameliorate the immense and horrific stigma rightfully borne by Palestinians for their use of this heinous practice. There is no other possible significance to attach to this deplorable moral prestidigitation. To cast this sort of rubbish in its best possible light, I'll quote Edith Wharton:

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
Edith Warton

At best, this is merely an attempt to be different for difference's sake. At worst, this is a scurrilous effort at minimizing or justifying the criminally despicable practices of Palestinian terrorism.

"We didn't want to just present the work as a simple morality tale," says Mr. Capet.

Perish the thought that a morality tale should actually convey the precise moral it was intended to. That would be "old school" and we can all be sure that Capet wants no part of such outdated notions as integrity, ethics or intellectual honesty.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-03-28 16:08|| 2007-03-28 16:08|| Front Page Top

#16 I suppose it is generally thought that that pulling down the pillars was divinely approved. However, that is in no way a universal opinion. There are numerous opinions on Samson. The phrase, "the Lord was with him" or "the spirit of the Lord was with him" does not appear nor anything like it at the moment of the pull down. Furthermore the phrase "the Land had peace for... years" doesn't appear at the end of the Samson cycle. Finally the Samson cycle is followed by several chapters showing the run up to the Benjamite civil war which was certainly a bad event.

Posted by mhw 2007-03-28 18:55|| 2007-03-28 18:55|| Front Page Top

#17 the Samson cycle

I used to run Army washing machines with that setting.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-03-28 20:56|| 2007-03-28 20:56|| Front Page Top