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    Fundamentalist Christians protest at Paris theater

    PARIS (AP) — The city of Paris is filing legal complaints against a group of fundamentalist Christians who have been protesting a play currently showing at the municipal theater, claiming it is blasphemous, the mayor said Friday.

    Riot police have been called in to chase off demonstrators bearing crosses loudly protesting in front of, and sometimes inside, the Theatre de la Ville since the Oct. 20 opening of the play.

    "Sur le Concept du Visage du fils de Dieu" ("On the Concept of the Son of God's Face"), by Italian Romeo Castellucci is a provocative story centering on a young man caring for his aged and incontinent father. A portrait of the face of Christ looms large onstage throughout and projectiles are ultimately thrown at it.

    Each night, police have had to defend the theater from a group of ultra-Christian protesters — organized by the group Renouveau France — who turn up with crucifixes and banners denouncing "Christianophobia," determined to disrupt the show .

    Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said in a statement that Paris can't tolerate "such expressions of fundamentalism and intolerance."

    His statement said the city is filing complaints when demonstrators try to interrupt performances.

    The play has been shown elsewhere without incident, including in Poland, Italy and Spain — traditionally Catholic countries.

    Commentators backing the play contend it is not intended to offend Christ.

    The director of the theater, in the center of Paris, Emmanuel Demarcy-Moto, denounced the "odious threats" and vowed that the show must go on.

     
    • ReeceL  •  Athens, United States  •  6 mths ago
      I'm glad the Christians stood up Jesus! What a terrible thing for a play to have in it. What has the world come to?
    • Laude  •  Pleasanton, United States  •  6 mths ago
      The only people Jesus protested against were the pastors of his day, the pharisees. They were full of #$%$ and he had the balls to confront them on their rebellious religious stand they took against everyone who wasn't like them. He said it like it was when he called them "Vipers and snakes," I want to follow the real deal, the real Jesus doesn't crusade, he loves! The play doesn't offend Jesus, it only offends the pharisees of our day! They are offended by everything except their own mirrors! They love to be right and that is what they live for.
      • GJB 6 mths ago
        I'm a Christian minister who teaches the scriptures, and I agree with you.
    • UncommonSense  •  7 mths ago
      It would have been informative if Paris AP clarified what they meant by "fundamentalist Christians."
      • While We Are Still Free 7 mths ago
        They mean anyone that ISN'T MUSLIM!
      • hopflower 7 mths ago
        No. They mean fundamentalists UNLIKE Catholics, Episcopalians, Lutherans who are all High Church Christians. Fundamentalists really rarely have a doctrine, they go strictly by the Bible and little else.
      • Marcos 6 mths ago
        Evangilcals & Baptists are by and large fundamentalists christians....those that think speaking in tongues is real are........holy rollers is what they used to be called.....it's kind of like porn, hard to define but we know it when we see it....
    • 19MCJ50  •  Kansas City, United States  •  7 mths ago
      Let's see them do the same with thing with Allah's face. How long would any one give the theater before it was destroyed by Muslims?
      • beans and cornbread 7 mths ago
        THANK YOU FOR NOT BEING BLIND LIKE THE OTHERS
      • Dave 7 mths ago
        You're right, fundamentalist christians are just as bad as fundamentalist muslims. Neither should be tolerated or encouraged.
      • radio free earth 6 mths ago
        So that somehow justifies the intolerance of christians? bullpucky!
    • David  •  7 mths ago
      : "We are intolerant of intolerance! ... umm ... what?"
      • Carlos N 7 mths ago
        yeah me too.
      • Ed 7 mths ago
        Exactly !!
      • Marcos 6 mths ago
        kind of like what people say about Brazil..it is tolerant...which translates into anything goes with no standards of behavior...........
    • Joel Binkley  •  7 mths ago
      Change the play to feature Mohommad's face and then see how long it takes before the theater is destroyed.
      • A Yahoo! User 7 mths ago
        You've got that right!
      • A Yahoo! User 7 mths ago
        Shut up your fool - It's the stupid christians that are acting like #$%$ this time, who even mentioned Muslims? Guess all these religious freaks are the same when it comes down to it...
      • Aryan 7 mths ago
        Islam and its adherents have nothing to do with this article and the story presented. This has to do with fundamentalist Christians who are ignorant and absorbed deeply in bigotry. In the end, all religion is poision.
    • Uneducated Stupid Idiot  •  6 mths ago
      I was gonna say "Don't they have anything better to do than protest some stupid play?" .. but then here I am posting on Yahoo articles :)
    • camillus  •  Atlanta, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Hmmm- according to the article, Elite cultural bigots (French) pay money to see 'projectiles' (euphemism for terds?) being thrown at a picture of a compassionate defender of the poor, weak, & sick. Followed by many intolerant, hateful atheist comments of approval & defense of; uncreative, uninspired, socially unproductive, un-innovative & anal fixated absurdity. SAD!
    • Mere  •  Las Vegas, United States  •  7 mths ago
      There is a thin line between protesting outside a theater because you think a play is blasphemous and threatening to kill people because their newspaper printed images of a certain Muslim prophet.
    • informant  •  7 mths ago
      wonder what would happen if it was about Muhommad???
    • Isis  •  6 mths ago
      As long as they don't violate France's laws about assembly and protest, I don't have a problem with it. Of course, no protester can enter the theater which this article says is happening.
    • Subotai  •  7 mths ago
      A new social re engineering has been put into action the last thirty years on Western Society and we are now seeing its effects .I shall explain this later on. I wonder if it was the Muslims protesting...well, " fundamentalist Christians" : Funny experssion and very surprising since it is logical to accept that every Christian should defend the name of Christ . People should understand that Christ for them is God , so why the surprise for the demonstrations? Why calling " fundamentalists" those who were supposed to do what they did ?

      In fact , long ago a play very offensive to Christ was demonstrated against ...by Muslims! I wonder if Christians have become too soft due to media and peer pressure who has imposed an inverted moral code for year on them for years !
    • Greg B  •  7 mths ago
      The headline is deceptive--those doing the protesting are Catholics, not fundamentalist Christians (who are of the Protestant persuasion).
    • Bryan Correll  •  Charlotte, United States  •  7 mths ago
      The only thing good about this story is that it takes place in France instead of the USA. Maybe we can lose the idea that fundamentalist loudmouths are an America phenomenon.
    • Tina  •  Chicago, United States  •  7 mths ago
      So youer offended. So what
    • no one  •  7 mths ago
      OK children. all of you just quit bickering and go outside and play!!
    • JLM  •  Zelienople, United States  •  7 mths ago
      Hey glass,it's wrong if the muslems do it but ok for Christians? I think intolerance is wrong in anybody's name.
    • Yahoo  •  7 mths ago
      The article has no information about why they are throwing projectiles at the face of Jesus. Hard to decipher this one.
    • anne j  •  Beaverton, United States  •  6 mths ago
      What if it were muslims protesting? Would there be the same actions taken? We Christians have a right to protest as well.
    • MikeS  •  New Orleans, United States  •  7 mths ago
      Christians that protest open disrespect to Christ are fundamentalists, but muslims violent and deadly over cartoons of mohammed are merely devout?
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