re: #173 CuriousLurker

My parents taught me to show people common courtesy. Apparently, that’s an outdated concept if parents are no longer teaching their kids that it’s okay to say things like that, regardless of whether it’s about religion or some other subject.

Meh, people deserve courtesy. Ideas don’t, and religions are just ideas. “Courtesy” for everything is the death of rebellion and the soul.

I wonder what the reaction would have been if it had been an anti-Semitic screed aimed at Jews and the word “Allah” had been replaced with the Hebrew word for God? Would you still be amused? Would more people have jumped down your throat?

Aimed at Jews, no. Jokes about YHWH, yah, equally entertaining. If people take jokes about their deities of choice as personal insults, that’s really their personal problem.