Let me put it this way, Gloria. Jesus himself, as I am sure you are aware, often used irony, sarcasm, mockery, and threats against those he considered wrong. I'm sure I don't have to cite chapter and verse for you. He got angry—the anger Christians like to call "righteous" in order to permit themselves to be similarly angry and intolerant. Jesus pointed out the absurdities of the religion in which he had been raised and educated and for this he was considered a subversive and a heretic. You say that you yourself, Gloria, believe in "standing up" and opposing injustice. In my teaching and writing I, too, "stand up" and oppose injustice. It is reported that there are governments all over the world—China, Iran, North Korea, to name only three—which imprison and torture horribly until dead all who espouse beliefs contrary to the government. Indeed, many of these victims have themselves been Christian! I am certain, Gloria, that you abhor and oppose such policy. Yet a universal dogma of Christianity is that the Christian god and his son Jesus will imprison in Hell and torture forever for their thought crimes all persons who hold the wrong beliefs! So here I am "standing up" and calling this stupidity! Here I am, scorning it, mocking it! Here I stand, laughing derisively at the believers in it and crying, too, at its tragedy. As many cultural historians have shown, this concept of so-called "divine justice" and punishment has for over a thousand years enabled both Christians and Moslems to commit heinous crimes against humanity in the name of their god. So here I am "standing up" and proclaiming this belief in the "divine justice" of eternal torture in Hell for the thought crimes of doubt and disbelief to be idiocy!