[Livia]

Originally Posted by Jesus.

The main issue is the difference between faith and religion. People of faith are happy to keep their beliefs personal and private, but it's religion that actually wants to inflict it's backward beliefs into the public sphere, with issues like terrorism, sex, and homophobia (as 3 examples). If religion came without the interference into normal life, then there wouldn't be the need for atheists to continually point out the insanity residing in books written by men that knew very little about the world they were describing.

But hey ho, atheists have had probably 50-100 years of publicly challenging Abrahamic faith, religion had over a thousand years of torturing and murdering people for even being suspected of doubt, but religious people now feel victimised and attacked for having their beliefs mocked.

Here's a tip, if people can actually mock the truths you hold most dear, on the basis of inconsistencies and magical thinking in your holy books, then re-examine your beliefs.

I think I take a fair amount of good-natured shtick on here about my faith. I am happy to laugh at myself and at my religion. I think that's what this thread was about. But it's never quite enough, is it. It has to develop into a general mocking of anyone's faith by those who have none, of being accused of being stupid and ignorant because I believe in something that someone else doesn't believe in.

My religion does recruit, I don't want to sign anyone up or turn them around to my way of thinking. I have no wish to disuade Atheists from their beliefs, and yet I am continually amazed at the lengths some unbelievers go to try to disuade me from mine.

Your last paragraph is typical of atheists. Why the hell should I re-examine my faith because I'm asked to by someone who doesn't understand what faith is?

Anyway... this thread, as usually happens with any thread to do with religion, has been taken over and turned into a faith-bashing instrument instead of the "should religion be satirised" dsiscussion it started out to be.