I saw these two news stories on the same page of my Queensland newspaper and couldn't help but think of Jake Kotze's synch2019film 'Miringle' and Martin Scorsese's movie 'Kundun' which the Chinese government aren't fans of, and I doubt would get a HK screening now ... that's if it ever did.
I remember Scorsese's film 'The Last Temptation of Christ'getting banned in my home Australianstate of Queensland when it was about to be released at the cinemas in 1988, so the Chinese don't have a monopoly on censorship, either.
All there seems to be in 2021 people or groups of people trying to censor or cancel people who they don't want to hear.
I wonder what Jesus ... or the Dalai Lama ... would do?-)
I needed a cup of coffee to get through the podcast:-)
I would normally have skipped an episode of Skeptiko such as this one, but I went to bed with my iPad running in Apple Podcasts and this episode must have downloaded overnight into my subscription list and I woke up hearing some angry clown going off the deep end at someone because he doesn't agree with his viewpoint on something.
And of course it was Alex the Angry Clown, the host of the Skeptikopodcast, who when he disagrees with a guest who he has invited on to his podcast for a "discussion" goes apesh!t angry to the point it's a wonder the angry clown doesn't blowa blood vesselin his angry brain.
And as far as masks go, I think Alex should wear one on his podcast.
Not so much a surgical mask, but something to suit his personality, such as a Mexican wrestler's mask, or a Rorschach mask like the one out of the movie/graphic novel WATCHMEN -
We are told that we shouldn't judge others, but we all do, don't we?
And while Alex does have some interesting guests on his show, ultimately, I think he just makes a fool out of himself when he lets his anger get the best of him.
I don't believe in an historical Jesus(whatever that is), or an historical Crowley, Satan, or whateverhistorical personAlex wants to bring up on his show ... because what is history anyway, right?
It's not solid fact, it's just someone or group's version of what they think is historical facts about that person are.