Sarx

Rabbi Shapiro gives a talk and shares a POV. The response is surprising:

Yet after my talk, no one said to me, “I found what you said to be totally false, but it was interesting to entertain the idea for a moment,” No one said to me, “You know I hold a totally different view of things, and your comments helped me realize how strong my faith truly is.” All I got was, “How dare you!” and “You have insulted by faith and my God.” Honestly, any god that can be insulted isn’t really God.

That last is truth. I’m amused whenever anyone says, “we need to defend the faith” or some such. My personal favourite was the woman who said to me, “I’m insulted for Jesus.” (I’d just been quoting some fathers on forgiveness.)

Adam has more on this over at Pomomusings, about a radio hostess who needs to save Jesus from the evil Emergents.