Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
1. A humourless Christian is about as much use as a punctured watering can. The same goes for any humourless person.
2. An aspirin is probably as effective on a neo-Nazi as it is on a nun.
1a. Is it reasonable to infer then that you have no problems with me making 'Jew', 'Negro', 'fag' or 'dyke' jokes?
1b. Is it reasonable to infer that if Jews, African-Americans or homosexuals do not laugh at those jokes then they're "humourless"?
2. You're just trying to evade a straight response.
Why don't we just call it for what it is? We both know you cannot make a coherent case for asking a Christian to have a 'sense of humour' about those jokes without simultaneously arguing that the classes of people I mentioned must have a 'sense of humour' about offensive jokes about them and what they hold dear.
If shavix and howard have not intended their posts to be offensive, all they have to do is apologise for the offence caused and alert the mods to remove the posts/thread. But we both know that's not going to happen.
You're not a Christian; you don't find those jokes offensive. I am a Christian; I do. Now you don't strike me as the kind of person who would make or condone a joke that Jews (or African-Americans, or homosexuals) explicitly state to be offensive. What prevents you from taking the same position with Christians?
LH
EDIT: Does your statement - "Take it from whom it comes" - imply that you expect a homosexual not to take offence at statements like "God hates fags"?