Well, you could think of Mormonism and its Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a joke. Or you can think of them as an evil and hateful organisation. Full of nonsense, full of injustice, full of hatred. Here’s an example:
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012
I’ve been watching with increasing bewilderment and concern over the reaction of two London universities (London School of Economics and University College London) to the “Jesus and Mo” pictures. Coyne of “Why Evolution Is True” has a couple of posts on this today:
Pharyngula also has a piece on the LSE:
To this eclectic mix I would add the brilliant piece by Eric MacDonald:
It’s clear that the LSE and UCL have made a mistake. Religion is NOT protected from criticism and does NOT deserve any special privileges. Those who call themselves “devout” need not fear criticism as they’ve already closed their minds and can continue to live in the happiness of their delusions. Certainly the “devout” have no legitimate mechanism to feel “hurt” or “offended”, and any claims for such feelings are mock by definition.
Equating criticism of religion to racism as these universities are doing is mistaken and beyond rationality. In the short time that I’ve looked at bogus degrees at British universities it has become evident that universities are more interested in generating revenue than in instilling knowledge. By capitulating to the religious, by appeasement to the irrational, these two universities have shown that they will do anything to acquire as much money as possible by stamping on rationality, by censuring and silencing the minority.
LSE, UCL, shame on you.
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012