Originally Posted by connor the judg:
“Most people take their beliefs that are non religious very seriously. Why are religious beliefs more important then any other? I agree with your last point and that also means I can say what I like about religion; it works both ways.”
It depends on what kind of beliefs you're talking about. If it's something easily disprovable (like the Holocaust didn't exist, that the world's flat, white supremacy, or something like NAMBLA) I'd have no problem mocking their beliefs. Religious beliefs, beliefs in aliens, things like that are non-tangible. I can't prove they're wrong. So I'd have no reason to mock their beliefs, other than they're just not mine. And my beliefs are no better than theirs. Just different. Now, when you get in to specific religious beliefs, like all the nutters who think the whole world needs to comply to what
their religion believes. I don't have any problem speaking badly of that specific belief ... just not of the religion in general.
All I know is, the world's a convoluted place, and life is a tricky path to go down.
And it's very much like what goes on, on this board. I'll argue to the death if someone states something provably incorrect. People can think what they like about any one person. I don't like this one. I like that one. But when they get into, I don't like this one because they're thus-and-such ... well, they have to apply that to all of them. Or when they seem to think they know what a person is thinking, or said just before the film started rolling ... that's provably wrong. They don't know. And judging someone on something they can't know ... in my 'code of morals' is wrong. But I'm also not going to say I never violate that ... I'm human, after all.