Pig Toys/Calenders/Tissue Boxes BANNED

There is a definite line between being tolerant of other people and letting them essentially dictate your life.

This with out a doubt I think is letting another group dictate something about your life and is placed under the veil of "tolerance". I'm not saying there is some weird conspiracy since every religion in any country would undoubtably try the same thing.

I still remember in Toronto a few years back a city Christmas tree was renamed a "holiday tree" for "tolerance" purposes. That was totally pathetic in my mind and a perfect sign of other religions just being allowed to walk all over people in the name of tolerance. I mean you won't see a Jewish Menora being called "Holiday candles" or the fast of Ramadan being called something like the "holiday fast".

Also if I was to go to a country such as Egypt, or Turkey do you really think my complaints against things in popular culture based on "religious tolerance" if I was Christian would even be considered?
 
People have taken the idea of protecting someone from "offense" too far.

Yeah, something that is going to encite fear or anger, prob best not to have it.
But some of the things we see banned today are just pathetic.

Take film posters for example, there have been plenty recently that have been banned because they show guns in them....
I can understand some people hate guns that's fair play, but banning a poster after a few mothers complained about it....
This world is seriously going to become a horrible place to live if people keep making stupid rules and being pathetic.

If you were to make a film poster that would not offend a single person it would have to be a blank white poster with "no frills" writing.
Oh wait a minute, that would offend blacks.... :O
 
Take film posters for example, there have been plenty recently that have been banned because they show guns in them....
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What the hell? o_O
 
Well, if you walk outside now, walk for about 30 minutes and come home, you'll probably see a few things that offend you. It's part of life. Most of us just learn to deal with it though.
 
Solaris said:
So they should.

Less than half the people in England are Christian (I'm guessing here) so why should everybodys taxes go to a religous celerbrzation that excludes alot of people, if you just call them holiday lights, then eveyone can join in the fun.
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In America a lot of state governments and local offices took care of this by making Christmas a secular government holiday. Everyone becomes satisfied.

It's declared as a "celebration of the man Jesus of Nazareth's birth" IE: How we'd celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Celebrating his life rather than the government giving it the religious connotations- and everyone is satisfied, the religious people because nothing really changes in practice, and the secularists because it's not a religious celebration endorsed by the government anymore.

I'm just glad here in America there is no right to 'not be offended.'

Such a thing goes against Free Speech itself. People don't seem to realize the door swings both ways.
 
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