Vatican Furious Over Charlie Hebdo’s “Blasphemous” Cover
Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/58289/vatican-slams-blasphemous-charlie-hebdo-cover-jerusalem/#PhpVzlC6GaqzJLy6.99“Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god that is able to deliver after this sort.” (Daniel 3:29
The cover of Charlie Hebdo’s special edition marking one year since the terror attack on its office names God as the assassin. (Photo: Charlie Hebdo)
The Vatican newspaper has lashed out against a portrayal of a blood-stained terrorist God on the cover of Charlie Hebdo’s special issue commemorating one year since the terror attack on its Paris office in which 11 people were killed.
The cover illustration on the issue, which went on sale today, shows an angry, bearded God figure splattered with blood and carrying a Kalashnikov rifle over his shoulder. A large caption reads, “One year on: The assassin is still out there.”
The newspaper accused Charlie Hebdo of “forgetting once more what religious leaders of every faith unceasingly repeat to reject violence in the name of religion – using God to justify hatred is a genuine blasphemy, as Pope Francis has said several times.”The Vatican daily newspaper, Osservatore Romano, said that the cover disrespected all faiths. It criticized the magazine for essentially echoing the justification for crimes committed by religious extremists.
The newspaper commentary continued, “In Charlie Hebdo’s choice, there is the sad paradox of a world which is more and more sensitive about being politically correct, almost to the point of ridicule, yet does not wish to acknowledge or to respect believers’ faith in God, regardless of the religion.”
Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/58289/vatican-slams-blasphemous-charlie-hebdo-cover-jerusalem/#PhpVzlC6GaqzJLy6.99
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