faith help: Do you think is okay to mock ones’ faith, believes? - Help.com

If it is not okay, isn’t that saying that you believe the mockers are wrong to mock others’ beliefs? So, you would be attacking the belief of the mocker that it is good to mock. So that’s about the same thing because the bad thing about mockery is that it might be attacking beliefs. Is that right?

No, its not OK and people should mind their own business when it comes to faith and belief.

It depends on what you mean by “mock.” I think that it’s perfectly fine to make jokes in regards to religion and such things, so long as there’s no ill intent behind them or personal attacks on individuals. I find it to be rather immature for people to get upset and get offended about religious jokes when there was never a personal attack made.

So, I think it’s okay to mock the belief, but you should never mock the individual that holds the belief.

As the saying goes, “You don’t have the right to not be offended.” A person can be as offended as they want, but what is and isn’t offensive is subjective. And I’m not even going to touch “political correctness.” Haha.

mindhealer wrote:
If it is not okay, isn’t that saying that you believe the mockers are wrong to mock others’ beliefs? So, you would be attacking the belief of the mocker that it is good to mock. So that’s about the same thing because the bad thing about mockery is that it might be attacking beliefs. Is that right?

sounds like a riddle, M.

The thing is that it’s really hard to control people who strongly believe that they know the only truth and are required to mock and attack all other faiths. Making a post that mentions a religious word on this site seems to be an invitation for people to start endless arguments about how they know the only truth about religion — even if that’s completely irrelevant to the actual issue the person is asking for help with.

So, one solution is to make slightly stronger rules about this particular topic, to try to prevent people from getting in such fights. So on this site the rule is to not try to convert people to your way of religious thinking. That doesn’t realyl work, people still argue, but it probably helps prevent even worse fighting drama.

Rosabella wrote:

mindhealer wrote:
If it is not okay, isn’t that saying that you believe the mockers are wrong to mock others’ beliefs? So, you would be attacking the belief of the mocker that it is good to mock. So that’s about the same thing because the bad thing about mockery is that it might be attacking beliefs. Is that right?

sounds like a riddle, M.

I have my own answers to these riddles, but I don’t try to push them on others. :)

You aren’t allowed to try and convert people on this site. See the regs. But you are allowed to have a different point of view.

Why not?

There is no magical “protection” for certain concepts simply because they are defined as “beliefs”. The whole problem with “beliefs” is they have no connection to reality and people seem to think they don’t have to face any kind of comment about something if it is called a “belief” or “faith”.

It seems to be a shortcut people use to avoid talking about things. They decide they want to believe something, like certain races being inferior, or one gender being superior, or …. oh wait… you mean SOME beliefs should be protected from criticism and others should not? how do you decide?