(February 1, 2016 at 1:29 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(February 1, 2016 at 1:10 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Religion may deserve mockery, but he was arguing against mocking religious people. There's a big difference.
Yes I will mock religious people who use it to justify sexism, bigotry, homophobia and especially violence and oppressive laws. And I will mock people who use religion to bastardize science.
Don't expect me not to. I think worrying more about offending or getting offended than the actual harm religion does far too often, allows bad ideas to go on to bad acts.
Well, those folk are only a subset of all religious people. I have no problem with mocking assholes, but the assumption that all religious people are assholes who deserve mockery is fatuous.
