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Jesus Christ cartoon in development at Comedy Central

My first reaction is to get all angry and defensive. I wonder why.

I don't think it's particularly because of anything except the fact that my pride is wounded. I take pride in identifying with Jesus, and mocking Jesus knocks down my pride. I feel like my main motivation is really the fact that I want so desperately to be right about faith that any challenge that comes up against that, including satire, is something that needs to be shot down.

I react the same way when someone takes a jab at Christians or church or makes a comment about how God doesn't exist. I would rather be right than love someone.

Being the person that I am, I scrolled down and read a bunch of the comments... I have a love-hate relationship with reading religiously-charged comment threads. But anyway, reading through it I wonder whether I'm supposed to defend or fight against offensive media. I still don't know.

Being angry or defensive never got anyone anywhere though.