SEE HERE We live in troubling times when virtue is lampooned and ridiculed and people are honored whose obvious mission is to destroy the traditional values of the United States. We live in a time when diversity is counseled without ever asking the question why? Why should we honor diversity, differentness? Isn't the mission of each person to become as wholly real and committed to the truth as possible?
There are differences that are of no particular account, matters of taste. I like silver colored cars but I used to like red ones. That's difference without much importance, a mere matter of taste. "De gustibus non disputandum est." — basically that one ought not dispute about matters of mere taste. But that also means one hardly should celebrate them either.
When people attack the religious values of others by lampooning them it is not a mere matter of taste. What it is is intentional ridicule. Religion is about ultimate truth. Different religions teach different things and it is certainly appropriate to engage is discourse about the evidence that supports them. It is hardly appropriate to ridicule them or engage in activities which intentionally foster anger and animosity, and particularly when by so doing you misrepresent the religion.
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