Learn to live with satire

People who believe they are entitled to kill anyone who dares to mock their religious beliefs need to get a life, as distinct from taking lives.

No amount of mockery or humorous comment can justify murder, arson, or violent assault. When Monty Python’s The Life of Brian was released there were protests at cinemas.

And yet I remember those I heard objecting asking that the song: ‘Always look on the Bright side of Life’ be played at their funerals, forgetting it featured in the movie in a most irreverent context: a crucifixion scene.

In one of her last performances Joan Rivers joked about Nazis in leather being attractive.

She was Jewish and a woman who understood humour. No section of society and no belief system escaped her savage wit.

John Fitzgerald

Lower Coyne Street

Callan

Co Kilkenny