It's shocking. How dare they. The Australian writes about our puritanical television viewers and how British television has to be stripped of religious criticism before it's aired here, or our citizens get all Muslim-cartoon-rioter over it.
It's not as if those real Americans are pretending to be thin-skinned. This is not faux outrage. They are genuinely shocked that outsiders do not take Christianity as seriously as they do.
Oh, yeah? We're thin-skinned zealots from the land where "God can't take a joke"? We'll teach you what's funny. The cruise missiles and predator drones are standing by on our aircraft carriers.
(Hmm. That would be funnier if it weren't a little bit true.)
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