BYU/St. Mary's

[VaTerp]

Originally Posted by fiasco

I think mocking someone else's religious beliefs is silly, no matter how outlandish you may think they are. If you want to disagree with someone, that's just fine when you do it in a mature way.

But to ridicule (mock and deride) the beliefs that someone else has is immature and petty, and it only leads to becoming more insular and less accepting of people who don't share the same beliefs.

Do I always practice this? No. I'm not perfect. But I wish I was better at it, because I know I don't appreciate my beliefs being ridiculed, and I'm sure you don't either.

Personally, I don't care if anyone ridicules my beliefs. I have enough confidence and conviction in what I believe in that it does not matter to me. But I'm less sensitive and less easily offended than most.

I only used ridicule because that is the word Snaqs used. More appropriate terms would probably be criticize or question.