Insulting Religion

[Epimethean]

That man skewers religion and barbecues it every time-and he only cooks it well done.

[Anymouse]

Except this bit Spider Rayaan:
"But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, an seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practise regular charity, then open the way for them: for Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful" (Sura at Tawba 9:5).

That doesn't bode well for pagans like myself. Are people like me safe here at atheistforums.org? While I hardly expect atheists to defend my religious position, will they defend my physical person? (Besides my wife; she has already done that.)

James. The church across the street just erected a new cross opposite my yard, visible from my bay windows. (Maybe to block the view of my pagan bumperstickers on my car.) I hope they haven't got any ideas about the Wiccan in the midst of their bucolic little village. . . .

[Justtristo]

The only reason why the beliefs held by practitioners in religions such as Christianity, Judaism and Islam are seen as beyond ridicule. While those held by practitioners in say Scientology are acceptable to ridicule is because those religions above are considered "ancient" and are at the core of most of the world's civilizations , while Scientology is a new one which has little cultural impact. That is despite that the idea of "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of people to Earth in spacecrafts, stacked them around volcanoes and killed them using hydrogen bombs, is marginally than the events of both the garden of Eden and Noah's Flood.