I generally agree with you that it isn’t decent or moral to mock someone’s religion.
But it’s also immoral to force your religious beliefs onto others.
So the question becomes how best to challenge the notion put forward by a religion that it is not allowed to be mocked? Under threat of state sanction and/or violent reprisal?
IOW when is acting in an immoral way to challenge something immoral acceptable?
So the question becomes how best to challenge the notion put forward by a religion that it is not allowed to be mocked? Under threat of state sanction and/or violent reprisal?
IOW when is acting in an immoral way to challenge something immoral acceptable?
To the first paragraph, I’d say to write articles, maybe with visuals of a Charlie Hebdo cartoon, piss christ, and lines from the Book of Mormon, and challenge people to choose which are protected by free speech, which are offensive, etc. There are creative ways to do it without making a contest to mock a religion.
To your second paragraph, it would never be moral to be immoral. What’s is the meaning of the word “acceptable” here? It’s legal to be immoral. Geller had a GREAT point to make. Maybe I’m going back to Mom’s old saying, Two Wrongs don’t make a Right.
She could have chosen a strong, creative way to make her point without having to be a formal official mock against a religion. I defend to my death her right to speak freely but I don’t believe it was right.