I'm a christian and I can usually take a joke about christianity, unless it's hateful, mocking, or downright insulting. I don't really think it's okay to mock or insult religions, race or anything like that, but jokes, I think, are different if they're the right kind and in somewhat good taste and not necessarily trying to be hurtful or offensive, and it's completely possible to disagree with someone on the basis of religion without mocking them or screaming in their face and being a blatant turd. I do notice, however, that it's more acceptable in general to insult or mock christianity than other faiths, but maybe it's just me. If I read a statement attempting to denounce religion in general, it's more usually aimed toward judeo-christian based faiths than say buddhism, or scientology. Most of the publicity that churches or religious groups are usually negative, and I think that might lead people to criticize or judge a religion on the whole instead of that one group, or person. Like those guys at the Westboro Baptist Church. They protest at soldiers' funerals, downright HATE gay people, and probably other bad stuff that I can't think of right now. They use bits and pieces of the bible to confirm they're actions, but contradict the bible on the whole when preaching hate and intolerance, but if someone sees those people on television or hears about them on the radio they might think, "Oh, those crazy christians", instead of, "Oh those crazy group of specific people that go to that specific church that aren't necessarily associated with everyone claiming to be of that particular faith". And the Crusades, which were supposedly done in the name of God, but that was just the church manipulating the gullibility of the nation in order to sate their hunger for power. Or the king, I don't really remember, it was something like that though. But the faith was used to justify it, and people don't look very kindly on that and so they blame it on the religion and the people associated with it instead of the instigators. The issue with the molestation and the Catholic church is probably something too. You see that, you think "Those sicko-bastards, I'm never going to church ever". I'm not excusing any of those actions, and I can see why people think it's more acceptable to criticize christianity than other religions when seeing crap like that. It's only been a few misguided people doing misguided things, but so much attention is being given to them, so all's you hear about is the crap people do instead of the good people do. Of course, you could just think it's stupid, I don't know. I'm just stating my opinion, and I'm not talking to anyone in particular.
