Oh, those religious-types and their protests...

So, the Religious Wrong is upset about NBC editing the religious references out of their Veggie Tales cartoons. Now, I can understand this. After all, Veggie Tales was created to be a religious cartoon.  I believe everyone's got a right to express their artistic vision, even if I don't fully agree with said vision... However, at the same time, they're protesting Madonna daring to use a cross in her latest tour. Our dear friends at the AFA have petitions circulating the 'net, calling for public outrage on both subjects. 

It seems to me that we're encountering yet more of that lovely hypocrisy that we keep seeing from these sorts of people. Nobody can touch their artistic vision, yet they can dictate everyone else's...

Until they're willing to allow artistic freedom for everyone, I say unto you, NBC--Hack away!

Pretty bit of poetry

The Soul's Expression
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

With stammering lips and insufficient sound
I strive and struggle to deliver right
That music of my nature, day and night
With dream and thought and feeling interwound
And inly answering all the senses round
With octaves of a mystic depth and height
Which step out grandly to the infinite
From the dark edges of the sensual ground.
This song of soul I struggle to outbear
Through portals of the sense, sublime and whole,
And utter all myself into the air:
But if I did it,--as the thunder-roll
Breaks its own cloud, my flesh would perish there,
Before that dread apocalypse of soul.



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