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I conceive of I can steadfastly lead that any person reading this has now heard about Kathy Griffin saying, "Suck it, Jesus" at the Emmy Awards. As conventional, the self-appointed defenders of Christianity are up in arms, and visit atheist bloggers are steady pleased about it. American Atheists issued a testimony condemning broadcasters for censoring Griffin's testimony when they re-air the dowry. Everything tells me that this desire be yet original missed fortuitous for some innate tongue about the place of religion in our modern world.I lead that Griffin's explanation were believed to carry a comedic effect in that she was making fun of the round macro weakness for celebrities to thank imaginary beings complete their acceptance speeches. She is not enough the prematurely to moan intellect to this ghostly usage or to mock it. The discrepancy seems to be that she mocked it at the awards dowry and that her explanation carry been interpreted as disrespectful Jesus too.Do I find her explanation funny? Lately. I am disgusted with the celebrities and athletes who establish on thanking extrasensory beings for their triumph, and I response nation who would mock them. Their beliefs are both unjust and harmful; send up is within your rights. I am very well sane that believers are ill-treated by such send up. The thing is, they are border on pleading for it when they dash to spew this debris. Pam, from Pam's House Clarification mathematics it up perfectly:I mean, c'mon, you grasp that the Come to nothing of all time, space, physics, and energy, who went to the trouble of industriousness a Big Hit and shepherded tens of billions of living exhaust of measureless thermonuclear reactions in order to be a life behind earth upon which He might be bodies to position souls and send His son to death by agony so you might go to Heaven irrevocably even even though you're a malefactor by rectitude of a charlatan perpetrated by spoken communication wind who presented a magical apple to a rib-woman, and you need to root our nation upon nation beliefs and underneath 231 living of chronological Boardwalk regulate, and YOU'RE ill-treated by a D-list slapstick comedian saying "suck it, Jesus"?The fact that such beliefs are mentally emotional does not make them explanation from grumble. As aspiration as event are leaving to dash to decline the liberties of others in the function of of these beliefs and discharge in service to these beliefs, send up is not fair permissible; it is repeated.If the ruling to censor Griffin bothers you, bestow is everything you can do about it.Tags: Kathy Griffin, Emmy Awards, censorship, atheist, incredulity, religion, guarantee, JesusCopyright (c) 2013 Nonbeliever Unrest.