Insensitive? Yes. Lucrative? Yes also.

On this fairest of weeks, the week of Easter, it is a time for families to celebrate and Christians and Jews alike to be thankful for Jesus' sacrifice some two-thousand years ago that even today changes lives. Click here for more information on the significance of Easter.

This also happens to be that lovely time of year that the media decides is a really good time to bring up old debates on the credibility of the Bible, the accuracy of the Christian faith, and the person of Jesus. Is it insensitive? Of course. You wouldn't catch major networks criticizing the Quran during Ramadan, or watch a documentary on the falseness of Muhammad during Rabi'ul awwal.

Why is it that the media feels that attacks on one faith is acceptable during their most holy hours, while for others it is not? Perhaps it is the long-outdated idea that Christians are among the majority in North American, or perhaps it is just that scenes of burning embassy's after a Muslim cartoon was printed in Europe still burn fresh in our eyes. They seem to believe that these shocking stories will boost their ratings and viewership. Where is journalistic integrity?

Whatever the reason, it is offensive. It should not just be offensive to Christians, but to anyone who claims faith in anything. Now don't get me wrong - freedom of speech is an essential part of what makes us truly free in our nation. We just need to show a little sensitivity when it comes to stepping on the toes of those bowing in respect to these holy days.

I won't draw swastikas during Holocaust Remembrance Day, so please don't publish Bible criticisms during Easter.

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The following are the articles that prompted my outrage:
An anti-bible special feature on CBC (url unavailable), and
National Geographic's "The Gospel of Judas"

Note: Judas was one of Jesus' twelve apostles who betrayed Jesus, leading to his arrest and death before his resurrection three days later. Please note that although the above link calls this text a 'Christian' text, it has in fact been rejected by hundreds of years of Christians as heretic nonsense, and is believed to have been written as many as two hundred years after the Gospels that record events of the same time frame.