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If someone has deeply held religious views then it is almost impossible not to insult them.
Most people won't be, a very small number will. They're the ones with the problem, not you.
Try being deliberately offensive to everyone, then you won't have to worry about accidentally offending someone.
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I see your point - the funny is that I already got an 'abuse' on this(!) post 
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Sad people really, the jokes on them.
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Indeed. Some people just look for things to be insulted or offended about, others just don't want to understand.
As it happened a little while ago, when me my girlfriend and our friend was driving with us home. As we do every week on Tuesdays. Since I bought a new car this year, my radio is different and it shows titles of songs on it. I was thinking ok I won't listen to the usual metal I do, as this friend is religious and I know she is not going to like it. I put in Opeth's two calmer albums. It's bluesy, jazzy, 70's prog, done in a more modern way. Their lyrics are usually telling stories, sometimes about sorrow, fears and some are about the devil - on the other hand some are about love. They are not satanic, but they talk about good and bad. When the song The Devil's Orchard came on and she saw the title it wasn't good, she did react. There is a part of lyrics that goes:"Take the road where Devil speaks: God is dead", that didn't help at all. Even though the song is about a man who is led into sin and at the end repents and is forgiven. But she wasn't open to that explanation. And if a person isn't open to this, I see no reason for me to be careful about what I listen to, or say around them - not that I would attack them deliberately or be insulting, but I am myself and I have my own life and my way of living and it's harming no one. Whoever doesn't want to at least try to understand - well it's a pity. But I am not changing my behaviour because of that.
EDIT: There are people who are religious and don't have problems with this. I just told the story that happened to me lately and was relevant to the subject at hand. I had no problem with some religious people as they actually asked me what I see in it and have understood why I like this music and it's lyrics.
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"Try being deliberately offensive to everyone, then you won't have to worry about accidentally offending someone."
Love that
Speaking as one who has what I think is a deep faith. I am not really religious at all. Pretty hard to offend me.
But as this guy said. Religious nuts from all "religions" well they have the problem not you.
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It's extremely easy to insult a ............. (insert religion of choice).
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: but the fact I may insult a christian.
Christians can be easily insulted. I know, I used to be a Christian.
You got your answers to your earlier post, so move on. You need thicker skin, if this is really bothering you. 
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I got 'Abuse' for next to nothing - and from platinum members too! (the -16 doesn't lie). Some times the butter-hurt flows strongly in someone... I wouldn't worry too much!
And to offend my religious views one must try hard, I'm 100% atheist with a knack for esoterism and mysticism (I mean culturally, I'm no pagan or something trendy like that).
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This happens... an open community with open options... unless you talk about bacon you can get abused, banned, deleted, erased, criticized, trolled, flamed...
Don't give any importance to that... It has no sense.
The best part of that is that you've got interesting answers too, this is what you wanted so... 
PS: forgiveness in CP? this probably will happen after ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) changes color... 
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Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Joan Murt wrote: unless you talk about bacon
As a vegetarian I take offence!
If I were a pig I would also have taken offence 
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How do you know if someone's a vegan?
They'll tell you.
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Now that made me laugh.. 
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They hate UFO Robot Grendizer?
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Had to google that
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I'm sorry, Goldrake (that's how we call it in Italy) is still extremely popular here, even if no longer watched!
Jokes on Goldrake and Vegans are at the order of the day
EDIT: grammar and typos.
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Understandably so, but I have never heard of it before. Something more to check out. 
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Joan Murt wrote: PS: forgiveness in CP? this probably will happen after [Alien] changes color.
I've noticed that he's green on Paddy's day. Does being the same green for a different reason count?
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I had a look at all your messages on the previous question, and none deserves even a downvote, let alone an abuse flag. But, hey ho, there are always people here quick on the attack, we just have to live with them.
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Yes, well there are people who behave like christians, following the words of their prophets and god, and then there are people who call themselves christians in the belief that it makes them superior to other people.
CP's got some of both.
(And you could say the same about any religion, anyway. Basically, people suck.)
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Yes, well there are people who behave like christians, following the words of their prophets and god
Yes, all Christians follow the words literally, and we are all evil.
Mark_Wallace wrote: And you could say the same about any religion, anyway.
You can say it for anything that people blindly believe. Listen to some Americans bickering about republican and democrat, and you find the same religious modus operandi.
Mark_Wallace wrote: Basically, people suck
People don't suck, but most are a bit.. ehr.. simple, and tend to believe everything they're told. It matters little if it is a priest, a politician or a banker.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Yes, all Christians follow the words literally
Except that they don't
According to the Bible:
-- Homosexuality is a sin (but more than half the priests I've ever met are/were gay).
-- Fellatio is equivalent to bestiality (guess which African religion was quickly crossed off my to-do list).
-- "Tolerance" of other religions is sinful (and I had a particularly unpleasant exchange with a "christian" member of CP about precisely that -- unpleasant because of his "christian" behaviour, that is).
Most christians I know -- and I've known a lot; I used to work for the Catholic church -- are either passive-aggressive supremacists or just plain ol' aggressive supremacists, who use the word "christian" when it suits the needs of their (passive-)aggression.
Whether or not they actually believe in their god is immaterial, because I've yet to meet one who faithfully follows the clearly defined rules given by their god; they just make up whatever rules appease their desires, and declare that christianity has changed (I've yet to discover how they go about informing their god that his religion has changed).
Eddy Vluggen wrote: You can say it for anything that people blindly believe
Absolutely.
Dump that iphone in the toilet, OK?
Eddy Vluggen wrote: People don't suck, but most are a bit.. ehr.. simple, and tend to believe everything they're told. It matters little if it is a priest, a politician or a banker.
That's not untrue, but, given the chance to suck, most people jump at it.
Look at any half-trained twat who's been given a uniform, for example -- airport staff, etc.
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BTW, I upvoted your other (perfectly reasonable and civilised) post, to avoid its being automatically removed.
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Religious posts should go to the soapbox, but it's not worth an "abuse" vote.
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