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Golly... its getting pretty blatant, isn't it?

Keep your iconoclastic hands off my icons!

A better class exercise would have been to put the names of Mohammed, Buddha, Obama, the Professor, their own, and Jesus on the ground, and, in the interest of inter-religion dialogue, tell the student to dance on the name they feel safest stomping into the dirt. Fun to ensue.

Now, what if a student wrote "Obama" on a piece of paper...

Lewis, in That Hideous Strength, has a scene where, IIRC, someone has to desecrate a crucifix in order to join the academic inner circle. I suppose that was farfetched seventy years ago.

I was thinking along the same lines as Smokey. Immerse a photo of Teh Won in a jar of urine and see what they say. Have an art major do a portrait of Il Douche in bovine dung, and see what they say. Design a urinal that looks like the pResident, ears and all, and see what they say. Just be prepared to defend yourself by whatever means necessary.

In his novel Silence, the late Japanese novelist Shusaku Endo tells of the plight of Japan's Christians during the persecutions of the 17th Century. The narrator, a Portuguese prist, recounts the Shougun's method of detecting illegal Christians within the Japanese population: a picture of our Lord and His mother, taken from village to village and placed upon the ground. The Shougun's men then compelled each resident to walk upon this picture in such a way that his or her feet trod directly upon the image of the Lord's face.

Those who complied were left alone. Those who refused, or even hesitated, were judged to be traitors and executed, either summarily by the sword or at agonizing length in public pour encourager des autres.

Many refused.

Would you?

@B Lewis: I don't know.

But then, I wouldn't be much different from St. Peter, would I?

The holy Apostle St Peter and Judas Iscariot BOTH betrayed the Lord Jesus Christ during the last hours of His life.

The difference between the two?

Peter repented. Judas did not.

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