This is just a rant. This is only a rant. Had this been an actual essay I would include more cursing - but I don't care, I'm just letting off steam.
Someone today told me I was being offensive towards their beliefs and to stop it (a christian! a mormon!! on facebook!!!!!).
The 'freedom of speech' cuts both ways. You have the right to say what you want. That means people have the right to say they are offended and ask you to stop. Notice I never said that you 'have to do' anything, just that in America, people have the right to say what they will. Especially on Facebook - block me! Don't read it!
I insulted Mormonism on a friends Facebook post - the post itself was 'insulting' to Mormons only because of how accurate it is and this friend had a Mormon friend who took affront to my biting comment, but not at the picture... I'll include the picture below because its just so awful and true at the same time:
I was told I was being offensive and should stop, by a Mormon who likes Fox News and is a self-declared Conservative who likes Hannity. These are the class of people who were most offended by the offense Muslims took at the Mohammed insult videos. "Freedom of speech", they cried! "Don't watch it" they yelled!
If you want to accept your freedom to say what you want, then accept that other people will have it to, and will insult you for silly beliefs - I mean, this a religion which says in no uncertain terms that 'hot drinks are not for the body or belly' - and yet they all drink hot cocoa.
That's why this is only a fake rant, how can you really take anyone seriously that believes there is a planet on the other side of the sun that we can't see?
I don't care who is president. They are all ineffective and political at this point.
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