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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
No. I didn't think I ever suggested anything of the sort. I just don't like it -- it strikes me as deliberately antagonistic towards Christians. I don't say things that attack other people's religion, and I appreciate when someone shows me the same courtesy.
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Thank you. My intention was to show you courtesy by only using the initials.
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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
It's funny. If someone says "talking on a cell phone in a restaurant is rude" they get pretty much universal agreement. But if they say "that's blasphemous, therefore rude," they get sermonized (har har) about taking away everyone's free speech. Before you take all religious people to task for being overly sensitive, observe your own reactions...
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I think that's about shared values. Feeling that using a cell phone in a restaurant is a value that you share with others. Blaspheming is something you don't share. It probably doesn't help that religious words bother you, but fucking cunt doesn't. I have a friend who has that perspective, and he confuses me - he curses up a blue streak and then when I say G-damn, he says "yo man, there's no call for that".