What is it that Steve attacks that you hold sacred Mr Offer? Religion wishes to be relevant beyond its membership. ISIS are trying to build a fucking country on the basis, Iran already had and Saudi Arabia is hypocritical. The USA is getting there, shameful speech at a time.

If religion is so "sacred" then nobody can get offended by criticism because your mate Jesus will come and sort us all out.

Or Allah, Buddha, the Noodly one, whatever.

No. If you have a faith then fine, enjoy. This thread is about the damage organised religion does to society, fucks people up and makes them bigots. As Steve Shaw points out, the supposedly moderate Church of England is bleating over a short film of people praying being banned from being shown before Star Wars in cinemas. Good! If people want their children to be fucked up, they'd take them to church. Nobody pays good money to see a film and be subjected to offensive claptrap. Meanwhile the same church defends their vicars when they ban yoga sessions from church halls because of a historical link long forgotten to a religion that isn't theirs, and support attempts to ban adverts on buses saying there probably is no God so go and enjoy your life.

If you can't understand why people are fed up with shallow low intelligence mumbo jumbo, it's because it isn't benign. It really is bad for society. We vote in politicians and therefore the laws they bring are as high as it gets. With the film, I heard a bishop on the radio today claim that the church is above the law. No it fucking isn't, and neither is the mosque, chapel, synagogue or Lloyds.