(January 26, 2015 at 5:27 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: If I may I disagree. They're not mutually exclusive.
A good barometer on the tolerance shown to others by religious organisations is their reaction to blasphemy and specifically the people (be they individuals or groups) doing the blaspheming.
A lot of religions desire a world in which scrutiny of their affairs is limited to those who have the power to affect them. By making light of this desire (perhaps through blasphemy), one is effectively scrutinising and critiquing it at the same time.
There's pretty much always a polite way of putting exactly the same argument.
