The Pope Almost Understands

From the Mail:

The Pope has condemned a ' disgusting' taxpayer-funded exhibition in which visitors are urged to deface the Bible.

Visitors were offered pens by gallery bosses so they could scrawl comments on the text - leading to a host of puerile and obscene remarks.

Pope Benedict XVI believes the stunt would not have been contemplated with a copy of the Koran.

His anger over the show, organised by council-funded arts body Culture
and Sport Glasgow, was expressed by a senior Vatican priest.

The adviser to the Pope said: 'It is disgusting and offensive. They would not think of doing it to the Koran.'

Public complaints about the exhibit at the prestigious Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow have forced organisers to put the vandalised Bible on show in a locked case, while still allowing visitors to write comments on blank sheets of paper.

The Made In God's Image exhibit is the work of Glasgow artist Anthony Schrag.
He wanted gays and transsexuals who felt left out of religion to 'write their way back in' to the holy text.

Mr Schrag worked with members of the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) in Edinburgh on the project. But MCC minister Jane Clarke said: 'I had hoped people would show respect for the Bible.

I am saddened some have chosen to write offensive messages.'

The Pope doesn't seem to quite understand; the gallery would never have done this with the Koran for two reasons.

The first reason is fear, and justifiably so. If they had allowed the Koran to be defaced, presumably there would have been death threats at the very least; it is not outside the realms of possibility that there would have been riots.

The other reason is that all of the anti-Christian, 'think freely' Lefties in Britain and the wider West don't generally have a problem with Islam; many seem to see it as an ally in their quest to destroy anything associated with Western Civilisation and the people who created it.

If the Pope woke up to this reality, perhaps he would emerge as a valuable ally in the fight against Islamisation.