{"id":20178,"date":"2015-05-08T23:02:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T05:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=20178"},"modified":"2015-05-08T23:02:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T05:02:40","slug":"two-contrasting-ways-of-reacting-to-mockery-of-ones-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/05\/two-contrasting-ways-of-reacting-to-mockery-of-ones-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"Two contrasting ways of reacting to mockery of one&#8217;s faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20179\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/05\/800px-The_Book_of_Mormon.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20179\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/05\/800px-The_Book_of_Mormon-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"Book of Mormon marquee \" width=\"300\" height=\"171\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to enlarge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than a few commentators, writing about the recent attack by two radical Islamists on the \u201cDraw Muhammad\u201d event in Texas, have noted the contrasting (that is, peaceful and relatively good-humored) manner in which the Latter-day Saints have responded to Broadway\u2019s extremely vulgar \u00a0and extraordinarily popular mockery of <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Mormons<\/a> and Mormonism:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2015\/05\/04\/media-slam-draw-muhammad-event\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here<\/a>, for example.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-journalism\/2015\/05\/07\/nyts-condemns-offending-islam-makes-advertising-money-bashing-mormons\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/angrywhitedude.com\/2015\/05\/radical-mormons-slaughter-the-book-of-mormon-theater-goers\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/angrywhitedude.com\/2015\/05\/heres-awds-submission-to-the-draw-muhammad-art-exhibit\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/theprogressivecynic.com\/2015\/05\/04\/extremists-attack-draw-muhammad-contest-illustrate-problems-in-islam-and-bias-in-the-media\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/05\/06\/the-new-york-times-loves-blasphemy-except-when-it-targets-muslims\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/05\/04\/mocking-religion-is-not-hate-speech\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And then there\u2019s this one, at <em>Forbes<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/stuartanderson\/2015\/05\/07\/have-mormons-become-americas-best-advocates-for-freedom-of-speech\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cHave Mormons become America\u2019s best advocates for freedom of speech?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And there are probably a lot more that I haven\u2019t seen.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 More than a few commentators, writing about the recent attack by two radical Islamists on the \u201cDraw Muhammad\u201d event in Texas, have noted the contrasting (that is, peaceful and relatively good-humored) manner in which the Latter-day Saints have responded to Broadway\u2019s extremely vulgar \u00a0and extraordinarily popular mockery of Mormons and Mormonism: \u00a0 Here, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO 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