no, what i was saying there was that you can say and do whatever you want within the law because its easier to shut up sometimes than go to jail. right and wrong arent always reflected in the law. you asked me if it was ok to go around doing and saying what you want, i said yes. its that simple.
what?
im pretty sure you can do that and even if you were arrested, you could still have a decent chance at winning your case in court because you are allowed an opinion about anyone as long as you arent threatening them with physical harm.
insult you like what?
well, i live in america first off. secondly, george bush is what i would call a religious fanatic. i didnt vote for him and i wish he wasnt even thought of as representative of our country, but i live where i live, and cant help the perceptions of others who would idnentify him with me just because we both live in the same country. i dont agree with a lot of the ideas that underpin current US foreign policy, or even some of the precepts of established US law. i think the religious right in this country is out of fucking control and we, meaning the rest of us who dont identify with them, are now forced to reap the negative effects of their legislative pronouncements of morality, and their attempts to establish "the judeo-christian/american way of life" all over the world by destroying sovereign nations.
by the way, there are a lot of violent buddhists. zen buddhists, no, but that doesnt make their religion any less of a fantasy.
i didnt judge quickly, my first two posts attempted to answer your original one, but then i got tired of the fact that you seemingly ignored all of the people who actually tried to answer you and just kept plodding on as if no one was even there. i actually challenge the whole premise of this thread, because i think that most of the time its the religious people on here who are far ruder than the atheists or agnostics, they, after all, are the ones always telling people they will burn in a lake of fire, or that they will forever be without peace, or that they are small minded fools who can never hope to understand god's will as they do. why dont you open your fucking eyes to a little of that?