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.

by DaeguBill on 06/17/2009 12:25:22 PM EST

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The Urine of Christ vs. The Blood of Christ.  Apple juice vs. wine.

I'm an alcoholic, so I'd probably have to go for the former.

Where do I go to sign up for indoctrination?

by EveningStarNM on 06/17/2009 03:16:06 PM EST

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Cenk spoke about this group of Hindu fundamentalists in India who are putting out a soft drink with the main ingredient of cow urine.  People will do some bat-shit crazy nutso stuff because of their irrational beliefs.

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

by aidbo on 06/17/2009 05:26:40 PM EST

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But I guess it's healthier than cyanide kool-aid.

by birdboy1 on 06/17/2009 05:35:45 PM EST

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...you might wish that it had been cyanide kool-aid.

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!

by EveningStarNM on 06/17/2009 06:39:57 PM EST

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