2008-07-11 - Rider Down, NW11

Tynan you were telling me that offense and hurt were not the same thing so I used race to illustrate that offensive words can indeed be hurtful however lets be clear as I did not draw any moral equivalence between racism and criticism of religious beliefs.

Ok, fine.

I do not believe that religion should be above crictism but then I do not believe that the statement "Jesus is a cock" is legitimate criticism.

I am sure you do, but I was not expressing what you thought, I was expressing what I thought.

Religious prejudice whatever which way you want to dress it up is still prejudice and historically has led crimes equally as henious as those justified on the basis of race.

"Religious prejudice whatever which way you want to dress it up is still prejudice" - is this some kind tautologist victory through semantics ? I honestly don't get your point ?

If you are saying I am prejudice (hostile?) toward religion - then yes you are right - if you are then saying that this historically has led to heinous crimes, then yes this is also right - what point is it that you are making ?

I would suggest before you reply (and I am having to guess your intentions here) you might want to take a quick look at the wikipedia entry on the 'Slippery Slope' logical fallacy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

I wonder if your prejudice extends just towards Christians or does it extend to all religions?

All religions.