If Christians don't believe in graphic depictions of God, why are they so outraged when pictures mock God?

The second part is even more baffling. Why do some Christians act outraged at Muslims trying to censor danish cartoons of Mohammed when they try to ban Harry Potter books from our schools and protest art depicting God in a style that they do not agree with?

I agree with you. In fact, I would go further: why do SO many Christians insist that our faiths are similar when ideologically, they are poles apart? Christianity began as a dissident Jewish sect. But as this religion spread through the Roman empire, and especially once Jesus was deified, then at THAT point, the religions split apart forever. For us as Jews, G-d is G-d and man is man - they never 'merge'. The mere idea that G-d would take human form is BLASPHEMY. Jews believe that all humans are the children of G-d. Christianity has evolved a totally different belief system. It has taken the Jewish scriptures, MIStranslated them, REinterpreted them and also the concept of messiah, and now insists that we as Jews 'missed' or were too 'stubborn' to recognise our own messiah! Talk about arrogance! Why don't more Christians accept that the very notion of 'messiah' is a JEWISH one. The JEWISH messianic prophecies were written by JEWS, for JEWS. We as Jews use accurately translated Hebrew. In short, we understand OUR scriptures. But no. Many Christians maintain that Judaism is 'irrelevant'. Charming. The Jewish and Christian G-d is not the same G-d. How can it be, when Christians believe in the trinity? When they believe that G-d was made flesh in Jesus? And to those people who keep cheerfully stating that Jews regard Jesus as a prophet - no, we don't. We never did. We never will. CATALIZ - BUT you've just gone and missed the vital point! In Judaism there is NO such idea as the 'suffering' messiah! That is a CHRISTIAN concept. CATALIZ AGAIN***********************************... You totally ignored what I said. The Jewish concept of messiah does not include ANY 'suffering' messiah. You are using a MIStranslation of the Torah. Kindly don't tell ME as a Jew what my religion doesn't 'understand' about OUR OWN SCRIPTURES.

But, but, but, Michelangelo painted God's picture on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Catholics are considered Christians, aren't they? Maybe this is simply a European thing or Americans haven't heard of the Sistine Chapel.

Don't you get it? It's the attitude that's shown by the mocker. No one wants to be made a fool of, unless they're idiots. Oh wait a minute, it's Christians that we're talking about here. Never mind.

isn't my problem if vindictive individuals wanna do such things

simple: it's disrespectful =\

i love the white jesus' though. priceless.

BLASPHEMY IS WRONG...