From the June 2005 Reason:
A Greek court has sentenced the Austrian cartoonist Gerhard Haderer to six months for blasphemy. Haderer’s comic book The Life of Jesus, which depicts Jesus as a hippie who surfs and is friends with Jimi Hendrix, is banned in Greece but has sold some 100,000 copies in the rest of Europe. Haderer faces imprisonment if he enters the country.
And, if he never actually enters the country—but instead just kinda stands on the border of Bulgaria or Turkey and leers in like some goathorned Pan bent on parodic mischief—the Greek government encourages the citizens of Komotini and Alexandroupolis to grab a handful of rocks and stone the goddamned heretic to within an inch of his miserable, godhating life.
related: Kris Kristofferson, “Jesus Was A Capricorn”
How can being friends with Hendrix be a bad thing?
Safe, so far, in Turkey, but stay (move?) out of the EU. Try googling- eu arrest warrant -.
So conviction in Greece obligates Austria, or UK, to extradite, even though the same act is not criminal there. That EU does some scary sh%t!
Lyrics: “Jesus Was A Capricorn (owed to John Prine)”
Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic foods.
He believed in love and peace and never wore no shoes.
Long hair, beard and sandals and a funky bunch of friends.
Reckon they’d just nail him up if He come down again.
‘Cos everybody’s got to have somebody to look down on.
Who they can feel better than at anytime they please.
Someone doin’ somethin’ dirty, decent folks can frown on.
If you can’t find nobody else, then help yourself to me.
Get back, John!
Egg Head’s cousin Red Neck’s cussin’ hippies for their hair.
Others laugh at straights who laugh at freaks who laugh at squares.
Some folks hate the whites who hate the blacks who hate the clan.
Most of us hate anything that we don’t understand.
‘Cos everybody’s got to have somebody to look down on.
Who they can feel better than at anytime they please.
Someone doin’ somethin’ dirty, decent folks can frown on.
If you can’t find nobody else, then help yourself to me.
Help yourself, brother.
Help yourself, Gentlemen.
Help yourself Reverend.
I am Jack’s utter lack of surprise. Everybody knows that Greece 2 is not as good the original.
These people may have given us Aristotle and Socrates but they also gave goatsex and Arianna Huffington.
Off topic of Greeks etc., but I loved the Last Temptation of Christ. Great, great movie.
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I believe Greece has officially apologized for Ariana Huffington.
No word on the goat sex, but that was surely the lesser offence.
Amusingly, Saudi Arabia would put you to death for printing that comic book, but for entirly different reasons.