The religious have every right to be offended. I mean we all have a right a right to be offended. Everyone of us have felt offended at one time or another. Sometimes it hurts but sometimes it opens you up to the truth. I was once lampooned in a city newspaper. The issue was immigration and a writer wanted to go on one of my journeys into the poorest neighborhood in America. At the time it was a place called Over-The-Rhine in Cincinnati, Ohio. After I brought her under the blankets of poverty I couldn’t wait to read the story. And when I read it, I was offended. It broke me because what was being said wasn’t true. You see I was never obnoxious to the authority above me that I would only write about what I was seeing and thoughts on what needed to be alleviate the suffering of undocumented workers. And never once did I act like a tornado. enquirer/editions/2002/04/06/loc_samples_peter_deane.html When I brought this up to one of the men who had offended me he said that he never said that and that he described me as a pit bull. He said that I wouldn’t let go. I brought this back up with the writer who then wrote a column that alleviated the offence. But in the end we all have a right to be offended… and we have a right to offend. From these things we learn the truth of who we are to each other and ourselves. Religion or religious figures are not above your common man or woman. We are just as equally offensive to each other and we just have to deal with it. You don’t have to offend back if you don’t want too… but you can try to at least why they are being offensive and if there is any merit or truth to their offence. Anyway, the truth is, in the end, it made me stronger… because I just went on doing what I was doing knowing if there were haters out there who wanted to offend sooner or later they will have to cease, that is, if you hold the absolute truth of who you are. Miss Garcia didn’t even have it right in the whole offensive article, when she said, “This man is good when hes good, and when hes bad, hes really bad,” said Linda Garcia, who works with immigrants at Housing Opportunities Made Equal. But the truth is when I’m good I’m really really-really-really-really good. When I’m bad… I’m bad. Anyway, the religions of the world need to get over themselves, and need to get over the sacred peoples of their books as untouchable. It is all our right equally to be offended or to offend. They, religious people, even devout Catholics, are no more sacred, than anyone else alive today that is offended or is offensive. We all have that right… equally… it is what it is. Helping without offending... and that was a dilemma that needed to be solved... enquirer/editions/2002/04/13/loc_samples_dilemma.html
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