I wasn't talking about the George Michael painting, that was in Erskineville. I was talking about the painting in Newtown that occurred AFTER the SSM vote which depicted George Pell and Tony Abbott which was absolutely disgusting, not to mention offensive, that young kids walking the street would have seen.
My mistake, I thought you were referencing the George Michael one, which I saw no problem with what so ever.
In regards to the Pell and Abbott one, yes it was insulting,
BUT I see no problem with it. You know why? Because both Pell and Abbott have been hugely insulting to the LGBT community over the years. No one off comments, but continuous bullshit hate speech directed at the LGBT community. So you know what, can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen. Especially that prick Abbott, he's destroyed peoples lives with his policies (not just the LGBT community), so screw him.
And by the way I have no sympathy for Christine Forster (Abbott's lesbian sister), I reckon she's absolute scum as well, for supporting her brother's targeting of other minorities but yet finding it convenient to stand up for her minority when her brother was using the same weak arguments, that he used on other minorities, to target her minority. She's a complete hypocrite
Atheists don't believe that same thing that we do - I accept that, however, as mentioned earlier, what we have a problem with is them making fun of it. I thought you would understand that... we know that Atheists don't believe the same thing that we do. People talk about it and make fun of it on message boards is different to a person who has a microphone and is influential on mainstream media. More people heard it therefore more people reacted to it.
I do believe that some religious beliefs should be made fun of, because they are ridiculous. Just as I believe we should make fun of flat earthers, it's a ridiculous belief. The idea is that, strong, stable, concrete, hard to defy beliefs would not be made fun of, rather you'd look like an idiot making fun of beliefs that are quite strong and stable in logic. So making fun of certain beliefs, to me, is more about the weakness of those beliefs, if it wasn't weak, and didn't required 100% faith it wouldn't be ridiculed (e.g. believing in the loch ness, tooth fairy, santa claus with reindeers, etc). But I do agree that Kyle overstepped the mark and was vile about it and as such deserves the backlash he's copping. You can ridicule beliefs without being a complete scumbag about it, which Kyle was (a scumbag)
And I have said this time and time again, the Church is accepting of people regardless of sexuality. We know homosexuality is not a choice, however engaging in homosexual activity is.
That's fine but I ridicule that belief, because the SSM plebiscite showed that a vast amount of religious people, did not adhere to that "belief" and demonized and performed hate speech on homosexuals purely for being homosexual.
