BUT, if they decide to believe something foolish, I have every right to say anything I want about that foolish belief -- including saying "That's foolish".
If I started a cult, and my cult said that all my followers must drink glasses of apple juice and imagine that apple juice is my urine, and my urine is a part of me and by drinking it my followers become one with me, EVERYONE will call me crazy and evil and every other slander. Yet, if an ORGANIZED religion does the same thing with, say, wine being the blood of Christ... well now, that's understandable and you can't make fun of that.
This is a contradiction. To be fair, either you should not be allowed to criticize anybody or you should be allowed to criticize everybody. I'm for the latter.
I'm an alcoholic, so I'd probably have to go for the former.
Where do I go to sign up for indoctrination?
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
Sheesh! Cow-urine kool-aid! This is a crazy world.
Hey! Do you think my new hair style will help me attract more girls? The girl at the shop said it would.
And I believe it!