I'm not sure which is more disgusting about what you're about to read: scantily dressed men and women mocking Christianity, or what a college administration was forced to admit as it faced outrage from students and others on social media.
A student group at New York's Vassar College recently staged two sexually explicit dance performances mocking Christianity and Catholicism inside the school’s 121-year-old chapel. The shows took place on November 21 and 22, just before Thanksgiving. Performers appeared in religious attire, including priest and nun costumes. While the displays drew criticism and concern from some students, campus leadership ultimately approved the performances. Because of course they did.
‘Whoreship and Prayer’
The Vassar Burlesque Society’s disgusting performance of campus “art,” titled “Whoreship and Prayer,” packed in crowds for its two-night run on November 21 and 22. A campus source said the show featured students prancing around in priests’ and nuns’ outfits, because at Vassar, it appears, featuring sacred Christian symbols in a strip routine passes as "enlightened expression."
Sydney Mize, a neuroscience major, told The College Fix that the event “was clearly meant to be a mockery of Christianity” (emphasis, mine):
I perceived this as an attack on Christian values and the practicing Christians on campus. I saw this as a mockery of our beliefs and a way to belittle us. I saw this as a clear communication from the college administration that Christianity is not protected under the college regulations the same way that other religions are. We are the exception, it is okay to mock and hate Christians where it would not be acceptable for any other religions.
Is there any doubt?
While Jews are universally hated — simply for being Jews — by untold numbers of leftists (not to mention, *allegedly* Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens).
Christians and Christianity are constantly mocked and ridiculed. Why? Because they know it's safe to do so. Try it with Muslims and Islam, they also know, and God knows what might happen. Does that make those who target Christians and their beliefs cowards? Of course it does.
Speaking of Cowards
Sydney, a Vassar sophomore who was granted anonymity, emailed the dean of student living, the college president, and additional administrators, laying out why Christian students believed the show violated Vassar’s own commitments to diversity and inclusion.
She said the Office of Institutional Equity, which oversees identity-based complaints, including religious concerns, then contacted her to follow up. According to Sydney, she subsequently met with Brian Van Brunt, Vassar’s Institutional Equity and Title VI Coordinator.
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Van Brunt not only acknowledged that the performance mocked Christian imagery; he also conceded the college administration would have handled it differently if a faith other than Christianity had been targeted (emphasis, mine).
“He basically said … it would be different if it were another religion,” Sydney said. Referring to comments students made on the anonymous social media platform Fizz, she said one hypothetical they talked about was if the flyer had referenced Allah. “If Allah was used … then it wouldn’t have been allowed. And he said, ‘Well, obviously that’s a different situation.’”
Hold the leftist bus.
Exactly what kind of "obviously different situation" are we talking about here?
The question is rhetorical: the "different situation" is that those who attack Christians and Christianity are well aware that if they criticize Islam — much less display a mere depiction of Allah — terrible consequences will likely follow.
The Quran rebukes blasphemy and warns of consequences in the hereafter, but that has not stopped self‑appointed enforcers from demanding death in life.
Instead of reading the text’s calls for patience and for simply walking away from those who mock Islam, Islamist extremists tend to turn "hurt feelings" into worldly punishments, using blasphemy as a convenient tool to police and censor speech, crush dissent, and commit horrific crimes.
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According to Vassar’s student newspaper, The Miscellany News, Whoreship and Prayer sold out both nights. In its coverage, the paper described the performances as "a fusion of religious motifs with sexual choreography." Nice.
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