Conservative Catholic Columnist Ross Douthat: We Need Blasphemy

Yes. That's Pope Benedict transubstantiating a condom.

If  Charlie Hebdo existed as recently as 1826, its cartoonists would have been executed by The Inquistion.

"The last execution of the Inquisition was carried out in Spain on July 26, 1826. This was the execution of the school teacher, Cayetano Ripoll, for the teaching of Deism in his school. In Spain the practices of the Inquisition were finally outlawed in 1834."

"Returning To The Dark Ages?"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/10/returning-to-dark-ages.html

We need blasphemy. Conservative Catholic Ross Douthat. A liberal society depends on the freedom to offer opinions that offend some of its members. "If a large enough group of someones is willing to kill you for saying something, then it’s something that almost certainly needs to be said, because otherwise the violent have veto power over liberal civilization, and when that scenario obtains it isn't really a liberal civilization any more." The New York Times