aniron
Because the religious "drivel" doesn't contain hundreds of swear words or goes out their way to make fun of others religions. .
No, but I can find religious drivel that does go out of its way to portray non-believers as objects of pity, ridicule and scorn, and religious drivel that actually suggests some people living lives which do not harm others are worthy of death on account of their sexuality.
Why not extract the rafter in your 'brothers' eye before removing the dust in ours? No one really suggests religious bigots and stirrers of hate (of which there are plenty) should be put to death.
Why is it that some ex-JW's seem to think that somehow it gives them the right to condemn and make fun of any other religions or anyone who has a faith. Just because they had their lives messed up by a MAN-MADE ORGANISATION, which they had the choice to be in or not.
You are suggesting here that there are some religious organisations which are not man-made. Please provide evidence for this. I am sure you would not want to force your beliefs on us just on the basis of your say-so.
Just because a group of old men in Brooklyn messed your life up, don't think its the same for all other ex-JW's, many of us still have a strong belief in God. Even though I've been through hell with the JW's these past 4 years, after being one for 28 years. I left behind a man-made organisation, not God.
Oh lord, please preserve us from the baby with the bath-water argument; no one has ever proved there ever WAS a baby in the bath-water. Please don't judge me ("Just because a group of old men in Brooklyn messed your life up"). I believe it contradicts your own beliefs.
And it doesn't mean you are right, and just as humanists, atheists, and quite a few believers have to put up with stuff they find offencive from traditional religionists, so too do traditional religionists have to put up with stuff they find offencive from humanists, atheists, and quite a few believers.
Get over it. Just because you feel your beliefs (because they involve a claimed ultra-powerful entity) should be treated with respect doesn't mean they should. It is like me claiming my opinions should be respected solely on account of the fact they were given me by an all-powerful sky kangaroo. You will note racists and bigots feel their opinions should be treated with respect to, and as we both would agree this is not so, I don;t see how you can assert your beliefs are in any way under a special protection against parody, facetiousness, lampooning, sarcasm, irony or whatever else.
If god really minds he can take it up with the people concerned; I think he's 'bad' enough to look after himself, huh?
Its a trend thats appearing more and more on this forum. "Lets make fun of those who still believe in God, Christ and the Bible. They must be really stupid to still believe in that stuff"
I think the main problem is people believing in god and Jesus as they understand them from a traditional literalistic perspective have failed to show they are not really stupid in believing in 'that stuff', i.e literalistic interpretations of the Bible as regards origins and man's history.
Ahhhhhh... poor them. Not my problem; if they can't prove their beliefs (be they about the Loch Ness Monster, ghosts, Jews, god, whatever), whilst I respect their RIGHT TO AN OPINION, I will not respect their opinion. Since when did respecting fantasy-views of the world do any good to anyone?
