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In reply to the discussion: What do DUers that defend mocking religious beliefs think of these pictures? [View all]whatthehey
(3,660 posts)I would personally say that anyone who thinks mundane or even vaguely benign images of a mass cultural movement say anything at all about whether that mass cultural movement also has reprehensible or laughable or even downright evil attributes too is missing a whole lot of the necessary worldview to understand such discussion.
There is no group, movement or even individual on earth in history which is either universally positive or universally negative. To risk Godwin, even Hitler loved dogs, and Mother Teresa allowed needless physical suffering. To applaud the one and abhor the next is appropriate, and does not at all imply that it is wrong to generally speaking abhor Hitler in toto and applaud Mother Teresa in toto.
As far as the big three desert monotheisms, there are plenty of reasons to debate whether they are benign or malignant or simply asinine in toto, but only a blithering idiot would claim that there are not aspects of each that fall at the extreme points of all the above.