I didn't mock Christians. I mocked transubstantiation. Which is ridiculous. Don't like it? Oh well.
Mocking a deeply held belief of a Christian (which doesn't even hurt anyone else) is to mock them personally. But hey, I don't want to stop you from hating on those you think deserve it!!!
2Vermont, please realize that you are not a victim in a thread that is actually about a company financially supporting the instiutionalized marginalization of an American minority.
I don't think mocking is always hateful. I mock the gay night at Hamburger Mary's. It's so over the top it's mock worthy. That doesn't mean I hate the gays. Quite the contrary. And when I call you a cannibal because you literally believe you are eating your human Jesus cracker, it's not hateful, again, it's mocking.
Snide is not hate.
Does mocking circumcision come off as hateful to you?
I didn't mock Christians. I mocked transubstantiation. Which is ridiculous. Don't like it? Oh well.
Claiming to not see the similarity in mocking one vs the other makes me proud of you for at least admitting that you're aware of your limited capacity.
Hopefully you don't accuse me of being a spontaneous asshole. I just can't handle such accusations from you. After all, what's good for the goose is good for the pussypancake.
Well maybe it's just me then. I see no other Catholics upset by this. I must be hypersensitive to having my faith ridiculed. Persoanlly I think mocking any deeply held belief/ritual is hateful, including circumcision.
There is a key difference between mocking transubulamacatification and circumcision. Circumcision is an actual, provable thing that happens and effects lives. Transwhatsit is the belief that the wine actually turns to blood. This is patently something that doesn't happen. It is the belief alchemy, that a substance can magically become another substance.
I don't say this to offend, but its just...a fact. You can believe it all you want, but it has never been recorded to happen. With any substance. Ever. This is why no one practices alchemy any more. They tried it for a few hundred years, but eventually that was enough evidence to show that it is not a thing.
I don't not say this to mock people who believe its true, but I don't have any qualms about mocking a thing that is just crazy from my point of view, but also from a scientific point of view.
I dare say this has offended - but I honestly don't mean to. I just don't know how I can dispute this in any other way?
But Reeve, that's where faith comes in...other Catholics can be like, yup, seems crazy, right? But I have faith and I believe. Whereas 2V is all...don't pick on me, haterz.
No. Thats not where faith comes in. Thats where actual denial of the physical world comes in.
Look, I can argue about whether Jesus existed or not, right? But no matter what, I can never prove it either way. There simply isn't enough evidence. So the faithful believe, but I don't. I think its unreasonable to believe that, but its the best I can do.
Thats not the same as actively stating as truth a physical thing that doesn't ever happen.
Or maybe it is. Maybe thats my whole problem with faith full stop. I love hope, but I don't do faith.
Anyway, whatevs. Im really not that bothered, people can believe what they want. It just rubs me wrong when faith is more important than facts, whatever the subject. I mean, faith that the Titanic wouldn't sink didn't go so well, and thats pretty much how I see faith, as a willingness to be blind to reality leading to destruction.
In truth, I am only answering as I am trying to pass the time until I go out tonight lol.
I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? I shall only engage in commerce if books are the coin. -- Catherynne M. Valente
"This prick is asking for someone here to bring him to task Somebody give me some dirt on this vacuous mass so we can at last unmask him I'll pull the trigger on it, someone load the gun and cock it While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket."