Yet it's insisted that when
those tables are turned that billions of devout Muslims around the world must
either find the satire or find a way to comprehend that it's all just the
healthy exercise of free speech rights championed in Western culture.
As a grown man living in a
contemporary society, I would have to consider myself an atheist. But I wasn't always one. It's an evolution that has occurred over time
with the broadening of knowledge that has shaped my perspective on any number
of things. In the course of that
personal evolution, science has overtaken faith.
But atheist or not, I've never
moved away from the idea that all religions deserve respect -- not just the ones
practiced by those who would ridicule the religion of others.
This idea of ridiculing from a safe distance, an entity held sacred by billions of one's fellow human beings just to see them squirm seems more an exercise for the amusement of psychopaths than one of free speech.
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