{"id":423,"date":"2008-10-30T09:49:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T14:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2008-10-30T09:49:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T14:49:52","slug":"freedom-of-speech-vs-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of Speech vs. Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when those <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/4670370.stm\">cartoons in Europe<\/a> spawned a bunch of death threats and street protests from radical Muslims? And the good guys were saying, hey, don&#8217;t touch our freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>A new book about the movie, &#8220;The Last Temptation of Christ&#8221; is out. It reminds me that there were protests and death threats from Christians fighting against freedom of speech not too long ago.<\/p>\n<p>That was about a movie imagining Christ imagining having a different life. What if he&#8217;d married and had kids? Pretty tame, I think, but it was enough to get scary for some of those involved.<\/p>\n<p>(And of course, THE JEWS got blamed for a screenplay written by a Christian, directed by another Christian, based on a book written by a third Christian.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when those cartoons in Europe spawned a bunch of death threats and street protests from radical Muslims? And the good guys were saying, hey, don&#8217;t touch our freedom of speech. A new book about the movie, &#8220;The Last Temptation of Christ&#8221; is out. It reminds me that there were protests and death threats from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languagelit","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}