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There are some limits. In certain places you can't make fun of the leader of the country. The most free is Lebanon. They say, "Make fun of anyone - but if you make fun of Hizballah, you're on your own." The other thing is religion. Not just Muslims, but no making fun of Jews, no making fun of Christians...
...Dylan--the great American artist of the past 50 years, I believe--survived, which is perhaps the only prosaic thing he's done in his life. A half-decade older than the oldest baby boomers, 68 on May 24, he has predicted their maturation--marriage, divorce, finding and losing religion, midlife crisis and regeneration, a second wind, a third...
...inter-religious conflict. Speaking after a visit inside the al-Hussein Ben-Talal mosque, the Pope acknowledged that "tensions and divisions between the followers of different religious traditions, sadly, cannot be denied." But Benedict said that Muslims and Christians have a shared obligation to counter the contemporary idea that "religion is necessarily a cause of division in our world." Instead, he said, faith is in fact necessary in a world in which reason alone can become a form of extremism. "When human reason humbly allows itself to be purified by faith... it is strengthened to resist presumption and reach beyond...
...Religion," he said at an earlier discourse Saturday, "can be corrupted .... when pressed into the service of ignorance or prejudice, contempt, violence and abuse." He called for a "mature belief in God." The speech at the mosque intertwined theology and a more nuanced view of current events than the purely philosophical discourse in 2006. "Often it is the ideological manipulation of religion, sometimes for political ends, that is the real catalyst for tension and division and at times even violence in society...
...also important, he says, to create a venue for people of different beliefs to figure out how religion fits into the rest of their lives. "How do we integrate having religious ethics in our modern society? How does faith fit into a secular legal system?" says Brown. "Muslims aren't the only ones with these problems." (Read more about the American phenomenon of church-shopping...