Skin colour and nationality are things someone has no control over though. Religion, give or take the issues of teaching it to kids, is supposed to be an informed decision and one that possibly also informs your world outlook/logic in a considerable way*. Skin colour, genitals you have or wish to fumble are not reliable indicators of any moral or physical attributes that would go with that, give or take certain biological/medical statistics.
*if you set out and derive a moral belief system that happens to coincide with some established religion then fair enough, I would wonder how you got there but hey. Religion tends to be big on the "surrender to the higher wisdom of [blah]" which seldom sits right with me.
I dare say we have a slightly different definition of mocking too, I would have considered it a theoretically humorous device, one that is probably about as hard to pull off as a good pun (or see things like sarcasm being the lowest form of humour in the eyes of some) and is almost always in danger of going into strawman territory, or indeed operate on a similar level to Poe's Law (others reading a sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from the genuine article) but for strawmen.
One of the cartoon comedy shows once had a sketch with "this is what [insert religion/belief of choice] actually believe" in nice disclaimer style text at the bottom. Such a thing would be a successful mocking session in the ones I saw, "hurr durr I'm a [insert religion/belief of choice]" less so.
In all of this I still think my favourite is that old talk show when they got a couple of the pythons on to talk about life of brian and also invited some religious types as well. At some points it felt like them beating up an unarmed man/men (not that I am in favour of Marquess of Queensberry Rules) but still where I would find myself, and from what I have seen where this show finds itself.
For the full thing
For the main part I am thinking of then skip to about three minutes in the second part.
Also
*if you set out and derive a moral belief system that happens to coincide with some established religion then fair enough, I would wonder how you got there but hey. Religion tends to be big on the "surrender to the higher wisdom of [blah]" which seldom sits right with me.
I dare say we have a slightly different definition of mocking too, I would have considered it a theoretically humorous device, one that is probably about as hard to pull off as a good pun (or see things like sarcasm being the lowest form of humour in the eyes of some) and is almost always in danger of going into strawman territory, or indeed operate on a similar level to Poe's Law (others reading a sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from the genuine article) but for strawmen.
One of the cartoon comedy shows once had a sketch with "this is what [insert religion/belief of choice] actually believe" in nice disclaimer style text at the bottom. Such a thing would be a successful mocking session in the ones I saw, "hurr durr I'm a [insert religion/belief of choice]" less so.
In all of this I still think my favourite is that old talk show when they got a couple of the pythons on to talk about life of brian and also invited some religious types as well. At some points it felt like them beating up an unarmed man/men (not that I am in favour of Marquess of Queensberry Rules) but still where I would find myself, and from what I have seen where this show finds itself.
For the full thing
For the main part I am thinking of then skip to about three minutes in the second part.
Also
