A couple of teenagers hit my local theater with stink-bombs for showing "The Last Temptation of Christ."

Nobody was injured, however. The next most dramatic thing I recall was a large middle-aged woman shouting that an "atheist" had tried to run her down with a car for holding a protest sign. She said, "His eyes were big as silver dollars!"

Nobody else seemed to have noticed the incident.

There may have been a couple of dozen protesters, most of whom were well behaved. A few looked angry.

One big difference is that "Last Temptation" was not created to insult or defame Jesus, though a few thought it did.

Mel Gibson's Jesus movie was widely criticized for antisemitism. Again, there were some protests, but nobody seems to have been hurt.

In other words, nothing like the scenes in Egypt and Libya yesterday.