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May 26, 2009, 03:43 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2009
Location: So Cal
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I believe that if you are making fun of a deity, then you are also fostering intolerance and oppression towards the group that holds that deity as sacred. You are targeting their values and their beliefs. It is very similar to targeting other groups, whether they be mentally ill, developmentally challenged, or of a different culture. It all fosters mis-education, stereotypes, stigma, and ultimately hate.
I'm glad that you are able to let this roll of your back. If that works for you, then great. I, however, choose to speak out about issues that tend to make my blood boil such as this.
I don't see the issue you have with that. What difference is it to you whether I spend my days screaming at the sky? If you are going to embrace the rights of the owners of the donut shop to name their store whatever they want, it wouldn't matter what group, or deity they targeted, and you would have to therefor embrace other peoples rights to stand up and protest that name. If you didn't, that would seem very hypocritical.
I am not trying to make this post about religion. I used the religious reference as an example, because I thought it might help you understand my ideas and thoughts a little easier. It's okay though...you don't have to understand. Your views and opinions are your own and that is okay with me. But my views and opinions are my own, and that is okay as well. 
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Originally Posted by SeptemberMorn
Hunny, why don't you send the donut shop that brochure and any information you have on the improv group? That would be doing something possitive and could possibly change their views.
Elysum, your idea would be making fun of a diety, who happens to be MY diety. I think you know that. There's a big difference in that and what the donut shop is doing. Yet, it probably would be allowed. There was a so called "work of art" that was allowed to hang somewhere, I don't remember where now, that had human excrement to form the shape of Christ or Mary, I'm not sure which one, and they called it "art" and "freedom of speech." So, when someone pokes fun at the mentally ill, I don't let it bother me because you're going to find these kind of people everywhere. What's the saying, "There's one in every crowd"? 
That kind of statement reflects on the person that is doing it, not the person(s) they are talking about. |
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