Larry David Urinates On Jesus In "Curb Your Enthusiasm"

I certainly understand why Christians would be offended by this. On the other hand, I also recognize that it is meant as a parody of the news stories we sometimes hear of people seeing the face of Jesus or the Virgin Mary in an old grilled cheese sandwich. In the course of the episode the family that owns the photo believes that his urine that splashed right under the eye of Jesus is a tear and that a miracle has occured.

However, I find this to be cowardly. Larry David knows that many in the Christian community will respond with nothing more than private disgust. They will not burn down buildings in wild and violent riots, they will not go on murderous rampages. If Larry David wants to be more than a just a comedian coward picking an easy target that he knows he can get away with offending, he should have an episode that somehow works in the image of Islam's Prophet Mohammed. That is the way he should go about showing that he is an equal opportunity offender, willing to attack the religious icon even of the Islamic community for comedic purposes knowing the response they had to the Danish cartoons.
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