If I can get made fun of for being jewish and be fine, then so can christians. They need to put an H on their chest and handle it. As said before, as long as they are being made "fun" of and not harassed. Harassment is unacceptable under any circumstance.
its ok to mock christains?
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You know, I hate scientology, but that specific argument is not only hypocritical but also getting really old now... Yes, Scientology is absolutely ridiculous... But what's the difference between scientology... And just about any other religion?Monkfish Acc. said:
lol is this a weekly show now? Perhaps one day I will log in, click on forums, and see Gaming, Off Topic, News, and Religion as a whole new section to have these arguments in.ChromeAlchemist said:
So many atheists are looking to make religion classified as something like a mental disorder. It's only going to get worse because religion is "against" what so many people want to be accepted.
I take your point, but it's part of Christianity being the dominant religion in most of the countries that people here live in; it's part of most of our heritage, like it or not, so people feel that they can mock and deride it. The fact that Christians can, by and large, tolerate this abuse, without burning effigies or worse is a credit to them.
The reason why if you were to mock and deride Jews in the same way, you might be condemned as a Nazi, is that the recent history of the Jews is pretty harrowing; most people are concerned not to appear as if they condone what happened in the holocaust. Making a joke about black people isn't even the same thing: it's a matter of race, not religion. I think most Buddists can probably take a joke at their expense.
I do, however, agree that a lot of the mockery of Christians is pretty cheap. For instance, every time there's a thread on here about favourite works of fiction, some joker has to come along and say 'the Bible', and probably thinks they're being really edgy and clever by doing it. Of course, if they believe it is a work of fiction, and superior to all other works of fiction, that's fine; but I'd imagine nearly every time it's a cheap swipe.
But as I said, it's because of Christianity's dominant position that people knock it. People always go for the number one. Coca-Cola gets its business practices ripped to shreds, and rightly too, but no-one ever bothers looking in to Pepsi. McDonald's gets picketed, and leaflets distributed about it's activities, but I expect that if anyone looked in to Burger King, they'd find very similar things. Of course, I'm only guessing, but the point is that being the most popular in a particular field will always make people want to find negative aspects of what you do.
I can't imagine there ever being a Christian holocaust, because I don't see any true hatred in nearly all of the mocking and derision, just annoyance and a bit of fun. I'm not a Christian: although I do think that a lot of the negative comments made against them are petty. But you know, they can take it: and as I said, that's to their credit.
The reason why if you were to mock and deride Jews in the same way, you might be condemned as a Nazi, is that the recent history of the Jews is pretty harrowing; most people are concerned not to appear as if they condone what happened in the holocaust. Making a joke about black people isn't even the same thing: it's a matter of race, not religion. I think most Buddists can probably take a joke at their expense.
I do, however, agree that a lot of the mockery of Christians is pretty cheap. For instance, every time there's a thread on here about favourite works of fiction, some joker has to come along and say 'the Bible', and probably thinks they're being really edgy and clever by doing it. Of course, if they believe it is a work of fiction, and superior to all other works of fiction, that's fine; but I'd imagine nearly every time it's a cheap swipe.
But as I said, it's because of Christianity's dominant position that people knock it. People always go for the number one. Coca-Cola gets its business practices ripped to shreds, and rightly too, but no-one ever bothers looking in to Pepsi. McDonald's gets picketed, and leaflets distributed about it's activities, but I expect that if anyone looked in to Burger King, they'd find very similar things. Of course, I'm only guessing, but the point is that being the most popular in a particular field will always make people want to find negative aspects of what you do.
I can't imagine there ever being a Christian holocaust, because I don't see any true hatred in nearly all of the mocking and derision, just annoyance and a bit of fun. I'm not a Christian: although I do think that a lot of the negative comments made against them are petty. But you know, they can take it: and as I said, that's to their credit.
depends what you mock them for... my friend is religious and i mock him for having ginger hair =D
not in a mean way, i dye my hair red so he just says im as ginger as him
but im guessing you mean mock their religion?
i dont know, ill go ask...
not in a mean way, i dye my hair red so he just says im as ginger as him
but im guessing you mean mock their religion?
i dont know, ill go ask...
Any joke made about WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) is completely and utterly non-racist and acceptable, especially if it's about Male WASPs, which makes it completely non-sexist as well...
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The above idea pisses me off. The fact that WASPs can't have anything to themselves, yet all other minorities have their own groups that they prevent WASPs from joining... That, in and of itself, is bigotry, and will not be tolerated by me. If I am ever caught in a situation like that, I will call out the person who is prejudicing against me for being White/Male/Christian, and I will take them to court for discrimination... take that bitches!
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The above idea pisses me off. The fact that WASPs can't have anything to themselves, yet all other minorities have their own groups that they prevent WASPs from joining... That, in and of itself, is bigotry, and will not be tolerated by me. If I am ever caught in a situation like that, I will call out the person who is prejudicing against me for being White/Male/Christian, and I will take them to court for discrimination... take that bitches!
I suppose it's because it hasn't been around long enough to be a 'real' religion. Plus, who do they pray to? Everyone else has a God in some form or another...Caliostro said:
For my two cents, I think it's okay to mock Christians. But only if everything else could also be mocked in good humour.
-isms only exist in people who believe they do. As they say, ignorance is bliss.
I don't think that their is too many jokes about Christians, but a lot of people freak out at jewish jokes and black jokes.
This man right here, is a true person to be respected. It should be okay to mock these things, all of these things, because that proves that no one cares about things like religion or race or sexual orientation.plastic_window said:
Well what a lot of people rationalize christian jokes being ok and all others not. Is because, they weren't opressed. Jews were opressed, blacks were opressed. But, Christians wern't. Now I have never heard a buddist joke so would like to find out what one is. But, what people have to learn is either it's ok to make fun of everyone or no one. We cannot say, "White joke, funny. Christian Joke, funny. JEWISH JOKE? NOT FUNNY!" It should not work like that. But it does and so it goes.