{"id":1655,"date":"2016-01-07T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2016-01-06T22:04:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T03:04:27","slug":"charlie-hebdo-cover-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2016\/01\/charlie-hebdo-cover-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Hebdo’s cover one year after the attack (and the Vatican’s reaction)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Today marks a year after the terrorist attack<\/a><\/strong> at the offices of Charlie Hebdo<\/em> on behalf of a pestilent god. Although the magazine took the unfortunate but understandable decision<\/a> not to draw Muhammad<\/strong> again, they didn’t say anything about Allah.<\/p>\n

So this is the cover of issue on the first anniversary of the attack<\/a>:<\/p>\n


\n<\/a><\/p>\n

A godly figure with a Kalashnikov over his shoulder and the headline: “One year later: The murderer is still at large<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

This didn’t sit well in the Vat-cave<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In a commentary, the Vatican daily Osservatore Romano<\/a><\/em> said treatment of this kind towards religion \u201cis not new\u201d \u2013 and stressed that religious figures have repeatedly condemned violence in the name of God<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBehind the deceptive flag of uncompromising secularism, the weekly is forgetting once more what religious leaders of every faith unceasingly repeat to reject violence in the name of religion<\/strong> \u2013 using God to justify hatred is a genuine blasphemy, as pope Francis has said several times,\u201d it said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ohh<\/em>, really? Why don’t we recall the words of Pope Francis<\/strong> exactly a year ago, when he advocated<\/em> violence in the name of god<\/a>:<\/p>\n

His comments followed the fatal attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo<\/em> in Paris last week.<\/p>\n

To illustrate his point, the pontiff told journalists on the papal plane his assistant could expect a punch if he ”cursed his mother”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

”It’s normal<\/strong> – you cannot provoke, you cannot insult the faith of others,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s rejecting<\/em> violence in the name of religion? Go figure!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s recall the words of Pope Francis exactly a year ago, when he *advocated* violence in the name of god just after the terrorist attack at Charlie Hebdo:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,9,291],"tags":[40,307,28,32,45,110,227,266],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-secularism","category-skepticism-and-science","tag-catholic-church","tag-charlie-hebdo","tag-christianity","tag-double-standards","tag-free-speech","tag-islam","tag-pope-francis","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}