how does showing a film that starts with the lyrics 'I want to take you to a gaybar' and with pretty damn suggestive (if not exactly pronographic, from what was actually seen of it) images, to a crowd predominantly of Muslims who are generally disapproving of such things - and they are (completely understandably) offended - mean that all religion is bad for the world?

I can be offended by religious programs and stuff being shown to me. Do you see me going all mental at such a point? No, what we, civilized people do, is pick up our stuff, and just walk away. religious people, ooooh no, they got to ruin the entire thing, make sure it isn't shown at all. Attack the people showing it physically. Religious people can't be reasoned with. Freedom of speech, the "western" civilization most proud thing, and religions biggest enemy.

So me and scatter and Revenge cant be reasoned with?

All these constant religion bashing threads are not being "mental at such a point"?

Im confused.

These people are offended by this? What gives people the right to think its ok just because they are religious? Its like going to an anti-theist and showing them the gospel, they get angry, and violent to points.

Im sorry that you don't see it this way, but your making your own point invalid by your post.

I live in a flat with 2 very militant anti-theists and you say "what we, civilised people do, is pick up our stuff, and just walk away" Uh huh. We being athiests? Am i not civilised? do i fling my poo? I think perhaps you misunderstand cultural differences and religious differences. In the middle East your brought up on this way, its social conditioning, religious or not, while we are socially conditioned today to have free speech, to think that religion is bullcrap and to think that science is king.


I also take offence to the humanities idea in that picture - its very misinformed.

Humanities is a science - except how can in history for example we claim one truth? there is no one truth, any number of things could happen for any number of different reasons. History is rewritten and overwritten from many different perspectives many with many different motives - Why would a national historian write a history the same as a minority oppressed group for example? they wouldn't, which is truth? who knows; we can only judge based on evidence and our own opinion.
"... historians expect their work to be superseded again and again." (E.H. Carr)

how does showing a film that starts with the lyrics 'I want to take you to a gaybar' and with pretty damn suggestive (if not exactly pronographic, from what was actually seen of it) images, to a crowd predominantly of Muslims who are generally disapproving of such things - and they are (completely understandably) offended - mean that all religion is bad for the world?

Religious people can't be reasoned with.

Taking it too far saint, you are generalizing a whole religion on video's you see on the web? Wow.
Bloody hell. You say the religious people are ignorant, pretty hypocritical when you also fail to take into account that the vast majority of these people are not the extremists you see in the media.

One thing I do not agree with though is theocracies, I don't think a country should be run under a religion. This is one of the main problems with the Islamic faith, since socially they are brought up with the outdated rules of the Qu'ran hammered into them.