A Word On Humor and "Self-Censorship"

It is widely known in the blogosphere that censorship is applied unevenly with regard to religions. I tried to upload "It's In The Koran" for private use to Youtube.com and I received a tos violation on it. I did a little research and found that if you search Bible Humor you get a page of stuff some offensive some not. Search Koran Humor and you get zilch. Jesus Humor--pages, Mohammed Humor--none! Oh...Muhammad Humor got 4 hits one was a comedian, the rest was a bunch of videos of a cat boxing like Muhammad Ali. Google did even worse.

I was thinking...Maybe a disclaimer like those on the Bible Humor page would have made it acceptable...

Noodlez's The Movie of Jesus-

This project is about the paradox of Jesus, and about if Jesus wasn't as smart as he everybody thinks he is, then like a real life footage if Jesus doing 2nd grade Math, but if this video offends anybody, then I'm sorry, but this is all in the spirit of fun, so again, sorry. I was the narrator and Ryan H. was Jesus. I thought this video was funny, so enjoy.....

Beat Kids at a church

Using fear tactics to control the weak? HIGH FIVE.

Look, this is something that if you are religious WILL offend you. (also if you have no sense of humor)But before you go flagging it please consider whether you should determine something to be inappropriate for EVERYONE based on what you personally find to be offensive. That is a selfish, irresponsible thing to do. ask yourself, would jesus flag this video or would he turn the other cheek like he does in the bible. he might even get a laugh out of this. i bet he had a sense of humor, i mean, look at the platypus.

The Beat Kids has a point-is censorship selfish? Well it does seem one-sided as far as Google and Youtube are concerned.

Just to recap--Jesus and Bible Humor=OK.

Mohammed and Koran Humor=Not Ok.

This is ok:

This is NOT:

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