SabahTheLoner
Master of the Art of Couch Potato Cuddles
"Our ability to laugh at any beliefs - even our own - is not a mark of insincerity." United Aspects of Satan: The Black Book, Page 26 (Loki) 2016 by Damien Ba'al
In Satanism, mockery for the fun of it, even to the believer of the philosophy/religion, is strongly encouraged. It's no surprise that people like to make jokes, and very often a joke that mocks someone is really funny. It might even be so funny that the group the joke is making a mockery of might find it comical. In my experience, witty jokes targeting atheism are often actually liked by atheists. I even found myself laughing at such mockery at times, usually utilized in songs.
I do know that this isn't the case for all people however. Many Christians I've known take Christ so seriously that anyone trying to make a religious joke using the religion as the subject often get serious retaliation from offended folk. Merely suggesting or even plainly pointing out that Jesus has attributes some conservatives equate to queerness or non-white, for example, it met by very upset conservatives justifying why Jesus could in no way be anything but a white European who happened to never have a spouse because of his status or something along those lines, not even taking in the fact that half of those comments came from themselves and Jesus was actually born in the Middle East, and possibly wasn't even of that ethnicity, much less a European one. (There is some archeological evidence of Jesus existing, there's just very few things scientists are able to say for certain based on their findings.) Also the example is what I've observed from other conversations, I never actually mocked a Christian in their face for quite a few reasons.
What is the veiw you or your religion has on jokes based on making fun of a belief, even your own?
In Satanism, mockery for the fun of it, even to the believer of the philosophy/religion, is strongly encouraged. It's no surprise that people like to make jokes, and very often a joke that mocks someone is really funny. It might even be so funny that the group the joke is making a mockery of might find it comical. In my experience, witty jokes targeting atheism are often actually liked by atheists. I even found myself laughing at such mockery at times, usually utilized in songs.
I do know that this isn't the case for all people however. Many Christians I've known take Christ so seriously that anyone trying to make a religious joke using the religion as the subject often get serious retaliation from offended folk. Merely suggesting or even plainly pointing out that Jesus has attributes some conservatives equate to queerness or non-white, for example, it met by very upset conservatives justifying why Jesus could in no way be anything but a white European who happened to never have a spouse because of his status or something along those lines, not even taking in the fact that half of those comments came from themselves and Jesus was actually born in the Middle East, and possibly wasn't even of that ethnicity, much less a European one. (There is some archeological evidence of Jesus existing, there's just very few things scientists are able to say for certain based on their findings.) Also the example is what I've observed from other conversations, I never actually mocked a Christian in their face for quite a few reasons.
What is the veiw you or your religion has on jokes based on making fun of a belief, even your own?
