[size=14pt]Religious leaders unite against planned Jesus cartoon[/size]

It's not on the air yet. It's not shot yet. There's no pilot yet. There might not even be a script yet.

But Comedy Central's plan to develop an animated project about Jesus Christ has the biggest names in the TV watchdog business forming a protest supergroup to preemptively smite the show.

Brent Bozell (president, Media Research Centre), Tony Perkins (president, Family Research Council), Michael Medved (talk radio host), Bill Donohue (president, Catholic League), Rabbi Daniel Lapin (American Alliance of Jews and Christians) and Tim Winter (president, Parents Television Council) are joining forces to form the Coalition Against Religious Bigotry.

Comedy Central's "JC" is in development, which means it's still a couple of steps from getting the green light as a series. The project is about Jesus trying to live as a regular guy in New York City and wanting to escape the shadow of his "powerful but apathetic father."

Because Comedy Central recently censored "South Park" for its portrayals of the Prophet Muhammad, some Christian leaders see the prospect of a Jesus cartoon as proof of an offensive double standard.

CARB will hold its first press conference on Thursday to urge advertisers not to support the project, should it ever hit the air.

"After we reveal the vile and offensive nature of Comedy Central's previous characterizations of Jesus Christ and God the Father, we expect these advertisers to agree wholeheartedly to end their advertising on Comedy Central and discontinue their support for unabashed, anti-Christian discrimination," Bozell said in a statement.

"Why should they be supporting a business that makes a habit of attacking Christianity and yet has a formal policy to censor anything considered offensive to followers of Islam? This double standard is pure bigotry, one from which advertisers should quickly shy away."

Comedy Central had no comment.

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Are they just waking up to the fact that Jesus has been pilloried by cartoonists to the point that he has a talk show and fights with the devil and lost.

When will Christians start focusing on the message rather than the person.

lagerwhenindoubt:

Are they just waking up to the fact that Jesus has been pilloried by cartoonists to the point that he has a talk show and fights with the devil and lost.

When will Christians start focusing on the message rather than the person.

I wonder myself. They keep clinging on to the signpost while ignoring what is on it like lost souls. What is more important, the messenger or the message itself?

Does it matter? what mockery can they make of Christ , that can be worse than the humiliation he had suffered. Except for getting things straightened out by protesting the double standard of censorship. If not, they should be left alone jare.

If the message is what is important, why should what is done to the messenger matter so much? A cartoon of Jesus? Why should that cause so much distress? This is why the three middle eastern desert dogmas(judaism, christianity, and islam) are known to be such shallow religions.