Jesus cartoonist 'jailed'

[Nightstalkers]

A cartoonist who portrayed Jesus as a pot-smoking hippy has been sentenced to six months in prison by a Greek court.
Austrian Gerhard Haderer's comic book The Life of Jesus shows the son of God crossing the Sea of Galilee naked on a surfboard.
It depicts the Last Supper as a drinking binge and the late Jimi Hendrix as a heavenly friend of Jesus.
The cartoonist, who did not attend the hearing, described the Greek court ruling as "absolutely scandalous".
Publisher Fritz Panzer said: "After all, Greece is a member of the European Union and, so you would think, not a religious state, in which an artist's freedom of expression is kicked to the ground."
Haderer's lawyers have appealed against the sentence which can only be imposed if Haderer travels to Greece.
The book cannot be sold in Greek shops until legal proceedings have been completed.
The case against Haderer was started after the Greek Orthodox Church submitted a complaint when the volume first appeared in Greece in February 2003.
At the time Athens public prosecutors ordered all copies of the book to be seized.

 

[Notepad]

Jesus was a date rapist. You can read about it in the Bible, dude. He can perform any miracle he wants. ANY miracle. So, what's he choose? Well, he chooses to hang around a bunch of easily-swayed guys and then makes a ton of wine. Hmm, sounds like Jesus is getting a little Randy in the man department. Frisky little fellah!

 

[Oversoul]

How can an Austrian be sentenced to imprisonment by a Greek court?

 

[Spiderman]

I guess they didn't like his art. But it looks like it has no real teeth unless he decides to go to Greece.

Haderer's lawyers have appealed against the sentence which can only be imposed if Haderer travels to Greece.

 

[train]

that's a new one... convicting him of a crime, when he didn't commit one in that country and then letting it stand in case he ever decides to visit Greece - and being convicted - did he even get to appear in court to battle it?

 

[Spiderman]

Actually happens a lot, although wouldn't you know it, I can't think of any offhand right now

 

[train]

even so - is this not a waste of this country's money, and time?...

by the way - I used Snopes to help undermine my anthropology instructor's Nova and Gerber claims...

 

[Spiderman]

Go snopes! What did your instructor say?

 

[train]

that's what she was taught by other instructors in Anthropology and the school of business (marketing)...

She's interested in researchin them more now...

 

[Oversoul]

Snopes is awesome. They almost always do a great job with their research. I wish they had more content (although they do have quite a bit).

 

[Spiderman]

How much more content do you want them to have?

 

[Notepad]

Enough to tell us what hot dog condiments exist on the moon. Oh, and whether the life there looks like little plumber's cracks.