It’s a quaint notion to seek engagement and respect. There’s very little respect for a counter point of view for religious nutters. I don’t think that approach would be particularly useful. However, I’m not trying to openly engage the nutters. I write a blog. I sit in my darkened paddock, chewing my cud, lobbing stink bombs across the ether. I do it for my own self indulgence and self expression. Maybe someone will sit up and take notice, maybe they won’t.

Oh to be a world famous llama.

Thanks for your valuable opinions. Most welcoming.

I think I made it quite clear in the blog that I see this language as hateful and vilifying.

Religion deserves no special respect. You can change your religion if you want. You can choose to turf it out of your life if you want. You can change and alter it in anyway that you please.

You can’t change your sexuality, your skin colour, the country you were born in, your left-handiness and I’m sure a whole range of other things. “Hate speech” towards religion is well overdue and its time it was called for what it is. A method of control. It’s outdated and useless. Time to ditch it.