Reply #19: That's the second time you've accused me of that. [View All]

[Catch22Dem]

Look, I respect your position on this matter, but I simply don't agree with you. You accuse me of not understanding (twice now) but I do. I understand the anger people feel about this, but you're confusing my lack of sympathy for a lack of understanding. I simply don't care about it. Call me callus, call me insensitive, call me an asshole if you like, but don't accuse me of not understanding.

Here's the deal, I think the entire world, all religions, need to re-think the validity and importance of religion itself. I aproach this with the same zeal as a missionary trying to prostelytize a nation of "heathens." So, where these folks are deeply offended that their beliefs have been trampled upon by a cartoon depicting their prophet as...um...a cartoon, I'm just as offended that ANYONE could actually give a shit. Believe me, my belief structure is deeply rooted in years of skepticism, and when I see this stuff, my blood boils at all religions. I won't apologize for it any more than a devout Christian would apologize for their love of God.

So, I'm not going to apologize for a paper re-printing it because I don't think it's wrong to do so. I'm also going to disagree with your rape and accident analogies because they reference real people in real situations. They're not cartoons, they're photographs.

But I will say, once again, I respect your position, and I bear no ill will toward you at all.