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Originally posted by speeder
Regardless of your viewpoint, that would be "Pope", not Pooop. Unless you are trying to offend all Catholics by comparing their leader to feces/crap. In which case, never mind.
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Thatīs part of the defensiveness I try to explain. The misspelling is intentional. I am not trying to offend him as a person - I donīt know the man. Itīs the position he upholds that scares me. Much worse things are said about non religious leaders, but there is seldom such a universe rage among their followers. Name calling has (unfortunately) become very common in for example politics - but you donīt see there followers getting all twisted up in a global rage. I have seen so many different unkind names for your President on this forum. But I do not see any large masses of republicans burning down offices and issuing death penalties.
Religion in my mind should be something personal, something that I believe in no matter what people claim. And something that can not be touched or disturbed by other peoples opinions. I should be safe in my belief without a desperate need to defend it. I should feel above petty name calling and slander. It wouldnīt touch me, I would not care. Feeling safe and secure in my belief.
And why is it that religions seem to give different amounts of that security to their believers ? I rarely hear of Buddhists raging like for example Muslims do today.
So yes, the misspelling was intended and the reaction expected.