Religious Confidence

So you’re at a party with friends and a group of you guys starts to talk about how disgusting smegma is. The guys start to really crack jokes on how nasty it is. Suddenly one of the guys in the group gets noticeably uncomfortable and runs towards the exit.

So, what could this mean? Most of the guys will probably assess that guy has a problem with smegma. He might have smegma, and felt embarrassed to hear people talk about it.

Smegma is nothing to be confident about having, but one’s faith supposedly is. I’m a pretty confident guy. I generally have great self esteem. These qualities make my day to day social interactions easy without much stress. Co-workers make jokes about me and I make jokes about them; All in good fun.

So why do the actions of many people of faith show they have no confidence? Why can’t Faith be discussed or even examined scientifically? Why can’t it be challenged? Where is the confidence?

A voiceover actor for a well known animated series (South Park) has recently resigned because the show made fun of Scientology, his faith. In the article below you’ll see that he had no such problems when the show repeatedly made fun of many other religions. Where is the tolerance, where is the confidence?

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Isaac Hayes Quits 'South Park'

AP NEW YORK -- Isaac Hayes has quit "South Park," where he voices Chef, saying he can no longer stomach its take on religion.

Hayes, who has played the ladies' man/school cook in the animated Comedy Central satire since 1997, said in a statement Monday that he feels a line has been crossed.

"There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins," the 63-year-old soul singer and outspoken Scientologist said.

"Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored," he continued. "As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices."

"South Park" co-creator Matt Stone responded sharply in an interview with The Associated Press Monday, saying, "This is 100 percent having to do with his faith of Scientology... He has no problem — and he's cashed plenty of checks — with our show making fun of Christians."

Last November, "South Park" targeted the Church of Scientology and its celebrity followers, including actors Tom Cruise and John Travolta, in a top-rated episode called "Trapped in the Closet." In the episode, Stan, one of the show's four mischievous fourth graders, is hailed as a reluctant savior by Scientology leaders, while a cartoon Cruise locks himself in a closet and won't come out.

Stone told The AP he and co-creator Trey Parker "never heard a peep out of Isaac in any way until we did Scientology. He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin."