{"id":25424,"date":"2010-05-07T22:45:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T22:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/05\/07\/jesus-christ-on-comedy-central\/"},"modified":"2010-05-07T22:45:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T22:45:35","slug":"jesus-christ-on-comedy-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/07\/jesus-christ-on-comedy-central\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Christ on Comedy Central: William Donaohue Mad, Confused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new show called &#8220;JC&#8221; is planned for Comedy Central.  The details of the show indicate that it has potential to be rather funny.  But what is even funnier is watching the Catholic League trying to figure out exactly how to be mad at Comedy Central.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not certain what is more despicable: the nonstop Christian bashing featured on the network, or Comedy Central&#8217;s decision to censor all depictions of Muhammad,&#8221; said William Donohue, president of the Catholic League&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which implies that Donohue would feel less bad about his religion being lampooned if other religions also got more lampooned. Or, perhaps he feels badly that the Muslims have this special ace in the hole: The fear of actual jihads and fatwa edicts. In the old days, this wouldn&#8217;t  have happened. In the old days, the church would just send in the Knights Templar or somebody.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gxnZK5i67vuSLHEv_p8Db2L9mCAgD9FHV64G0\">details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new show called &#8220;JC&#8221; is planned for Comedy Central. The details of the show indicate that it has potential to be rather funny. But what is even funnier is watching the Catholic League trying to figure out exactly how to be mad at Comedy Central.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6C4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}