Why is it not only acceptable but encouraged to mock the Christian faith?
Saying that in a way that is intended to offend you is not a mockery of the faith — it mocks you for being foolish, and it’s furthermore rude and anti-Communitarian. Please report it as abuse, and please out those who encourage it by listing their names. i will undertake to inveigh against any practice of rudeness here. For example, i often state here that Mormons are not Christians (because the being named “Jesus Christ” that they believe in is clearly a different being from the Being whom we Christians call “Jesus Christ” — and, in fact, Mormons are not even monotheists); but i try to do so in a way that is not intentionally offensive to the feelings of any Mormon and does not depreciate them as persons. (in fact, the only good argument i have ever found in favor of the LDS doctrines is the clearly above-average job that they do at turning out good, worthwhile people.) So i am not mocking their religion, nor mocking them for believing in it, nor encouraging anyone else to mock it o
NKJ Romans 8:5-8 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. NIV Romans 8:5-8 Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; 7 the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. It is not part of the nature of an ungodly (non-Christian) person to be positively, or even fairly, predisposed to God, Chr
