Wain wrote:
anyway, my question is, how come when threads like these exist we are told to lighten up if we are offended, but when a thread comes by that OBVIOUSLY is joking about potential alternative uses for a bible the thread is locked after 11 posts because "making fun of one's faith isn't funny".
They're "just bleeping jokes" after all.
Indeed.
No-one in that thwead actually made fun of the Cwistian faith. They may as well have been talking about any other big book, like the Qur'an or the Yellow Pages.
And I tend to think that if one really takes their faith seriously, why care about someone wiping their ass on this book? Now, an age-old artefact of the faith, owiginal parchments or whatever with actual histowical value? I can see why that would be offensive.
But when something is mass-produced and somewhat akin in that wespect to the aforementioned telephone diwectory...
