Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Unfortunately, once you start to regard the mockery of things others hold dear as a virtue, you by extension are mocking, deriding and denigrating not merely institutions, but the people who believe in them. Now whether that institution is the Church, the Monarchy, the military, the Government, someone else's football team, school, class or whatever, you are making a virtue of offence and, once you start down the road of saying that offence in any form is good, all bets are effectively off.
Excuse me for copying and pasting some words, but mocking, deriding and denigrating not merely institutions and ideas, but the people who believe in them, is basically what you do every day.