I myself have actually been through this. I had a person, more of an acquaintance than a friend, who added me on facebook. She found my postings offensive because she was a "deeply religious" person. I stopped posting for a little while, and then one day I just realized that I was being untrue to myself. I have a sense of humor, I love to laugh and share the laughs. I had other friends on facebook who were atheists and felt that my postings were quite humorous. I then went back to posting the funny things and the things mocking religions and the person again had a problem with it.
I told her frankly and honestly that I had every right to post anything I wanted that did not violate the rules of facebook and that should she dislike something I posted she could delete me as a friend, but that asking me to stop posting something that simply made her feel uncomfortable or mocked was not right. She disagreed, and defriended me. I felt no great loss. When it comes down to it, someone who is easily offended by such things as something making a joke out of something that is already a joke in and of itself, well that person is just a little too easily offended. I also have to agree with the other people on here who point out that this person blatantly contradicted himself many times and is simply trying to censor you and change your thought patterns or beliefs.
Oh and one last thing, he is right, there is a huge difference between the bible and Spiderman comics. Several actually. One is a completely fictitious account of a hero figure, the other is a book about a teenager who was bitten by a radio active spider and became Spiderman. Also one is a wildly entertaining story and the other is a book that is thousands of years old and so culturally irrelevant that it can't even be consider quaintly amusing anymore. And lastly I can't remember ever hearing a story about mass murder or hatred being caused by reading Spiderman comics, but I can honestly remember thousands being caused by reading the Bible, one of which is a church right here in Topeka called Westboro Baptist. So frankly, this person can be offended by your funny posts all they want. What they need to realize is how deeply offensive their religion is to thousands of people on a daily basis without their even posting anything at all on a facebook wall.
I told her frankly and honestly that I had every right to post anything I wanted that did not violate the rules of facebook and that should she dislike something I posted she could delete me as a friend, but that asking me to stop posting something that simply made her feel uncomfortable or mocked was not right. She disagreed, and defriended me. I felt no great loss. When it comes down to it, someone who is easily offended by such things as something making a joke out of something that is already a joke in and of itself, well that person is just a little too easily offended. I also have to agree with the other people on here who point out that this person blatantly contradicted himself many times and is simply trying to censor you and change your thought patterns or beliefs.
Oh and one last thing, he is right, there is a huge difference between the bible and Spiderman comics. Several actually. One is a completely fictitious account of a hero figure, the other is a book about a teenager who was bitten by a radio active spider and became Spiderman. Also one is a wildly entertaining story and the other is a book that is thousands of years old and so culturally irrelevant that it can't even be consider quaintly amusing anymore. And lastly I can't remember ever hearing a story about mass murder or hatred being caused by reading Spiderman comics, but I can honestly remember thousands being caused by reading the Bible, one of which is a church right here in Topeka called Westboro Baptist. So frankly, this person can be offended by your funny posts all they want. What they need to realize is how deeply offensive their religion is to thousands of people on a daily basis without their even posting anything at all on a facebook wall.
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(July 21, 2012 at 12:31 am)cato123 Wrote:(July 21, 2012 at 12:22 am)C.W. Sims Wrote: I for one, as a homo, must say that if he was a homo, then he had to have looked fabulous on that cross. Nearly naked, body all ripped, oh wait.... yeah, never mind. I'm gonna just stop right there before I offend anyone.
I have a certain distaste for the emoticons, and particularly despise the laughing/rolling dude when used in response to one's own statement, but.....
Holy fuck that was funny! "Nearly naked, body all ripped,....". Oh, fuck me. I'm still laughing but can no longer piss myself since I've emptied the tank.
