Dems respect diversity but how deeply?

Personally, I only **** nuns, praying before and after. With Jesus on our side, conception is ruled out.

So, that's an option.

Do you regard yourself as a person who respects diversity even while you are symbolically spitting on Christian religious traditions?

I was raised Mennonite and my answer would be, not all christians or christian traditions. Just the really stupid ones whether that stupidity arises out of fixed ideas or tendencies towards authoritarianism and theocracy.

Ought I to avoid spitting on the Catholic church for its centuries of child molestation, covered up by the highest levels of the institution?

Ought I to avoid pissing on evangelicals who look forward to an end where only they arrive in heaven and everyone else (like all the Jews) burns forever?

Ought I to blow kisses to a religious group who operate so as to enforce their ideas on others outside their faith community? Not going to happen.

Any faith group ought to be free to go about it's daily activities if they are merely minding their own business. There are, of course, thousands of such communities in the world (you won't find criticism or satire from me regarding Dervishes or Buddhist monks in a Tibetian monastery).

But the instant they set out to promote the expansion of their community's rules and laws to include others, then it is very likely I am going to identify them as potential enemies. If they are offended by anything I say or do, tough luck. If you get political, you are as legitimate a target for insult as any other political entity in the wider community.

And who are you to judge, exactly?

Do you assume superiority?

Why don't you forgive and love?

Do you seek to help others or destroy them for the sins you judge them for?

And who are you to judge, exactly?

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And who are you to judge, exactly?

Silly. We all make moral decisions and moral judgments constantly.

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Do you assume superiority?

Sometimes, sure. Again, these are questions we all entertain. I'd assume that your moral behavior is superior to Hitler's and I'd guess you think so as well. I'll wager you believe that christianity is the one true faith, that is, you believe it superior. Or do you hold that there is no way one might insist that christian beliefs/ideas can be held superior to satanism? Or Jainism? Or atheism?

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Why don't you forgive and love?

Tell me about your love for Islamists.

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Do you seek to help others or destroy them for the sins you judge them for?

Depends on the sins, of course. Depends on severity of the "evil" involved and whether those "sins" are on-going or being planned. Would I destroy an active shooter in a mall if I could bash his head in with a baseball bat? Of course. But if you are suggesting there is any chance of christianity (or any major faith) being "destroyed", then you'd be a paranoid fool.

What about you? All you do is judge others, your obsession with other people's sex lives,

coupled with condemnation for doing anything pleasurable is the most judgemental thing I've come across.

You really should see someone about your prurience. It's not remotely healthy, and you are a very disturbed individual.

Judging someone in the Bible refers to condemning them beyond redemption, and often to death, for sin.

But the question is whether you are doing so within a paradigm of love and forgiveness or hate and condemnation.

Good is obviously superior to evil, but we are all sinners and so it is arrogant to assume superiority instead of staying humble. Just because Hitler's sins might have been worse than yours, doesn't make you a good person for feeling superior to him.

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Judging someone in the Bible refers to condemning them beyond redemption, and often to death, for sin.

Why even bring it up. That has nothing to do with you or me or anyone.

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But the question is whether you are doing so within a paradigm of love and forgiveness or hate and condemnation.

This is a false dilemma and a fine example of how abstractions appear to make things simpler but in fact do not. Augustine stole an apple from a tree (Confessions). Hitler ordered the death of six million Jews.

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Good is obviously superior to evil, but we are all sinners and so it is arrogant to assume superiority instead of staying humble. Just because Hitler's sins might have been worse than yours, doesn't make you a good person for feeling superior to him.

"Good" is superior to "evil" because the words mean that. What is considered "good" in one culture can commonly be thought of as "evil" in another culture. Would your humility allow that present notions of gay sexuality held by many religious sects are no better or not superior to the notions held by Athenian society?

In any case, I'm not going to continue with this. I'm sure you are a fine fellow but this is the sort of conversation which does not interest me.