Heaven, according to The Simpsons, is an Irish-themed bar featuring Riverdance, heavy drinking and fighting. But that’s just the Catholic version. In Protestant heaven, people in polo shirts spend eternity playing croquet and badminton. An episode broadcast last week featured the voice of Liam Neeson as an Irish priest, Father Sean, who converts Bart and Homer Simpson to Catholicism. Gordon Linney, the former Church of Ireland archdeacon of Dublin, said: “I found the depiction of the Protestant Heaven hugely offensive; it made us sound boring. The Catholics were having much more fun. “It is wrong for anyone to set out intentionally to cause offence, especially in religious matters, but sometimes religious people take themselves far too seriously and take offence too easily. We have survived screen and strife for over 2,000 years, so we’re not going to get upset about a cartoon.” Read More >>>
