Religion should not have special immunity from criticism.

"My opponent likes to run circles once he has been pointed out,... I stayed within the bounds of this debate." No, I addressed your argument line by line. "I appreciate the grammar lesson as well,... I hope it leads you to a girlfriend and out of your parents basement someday before you turn 40." Ad Hominen. "My opponent claims I have pulled "destructive criticism" out of thin air,... I want to provide some evidence to my madness,...www.wikipedia.org" From Wikipedia: -This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. -This article does not cite any references or sources. http://en.wikipedia.org... Forgive me if I am now any less convinced of your argument. So again; go to the dictionary list of criticism. Choose the appropriate one. "Surely you have heard of constructive criticism,... well, as you can let your mind guess,... destructive is the opposite,... destroy someone's creation, prestige, reputation and self-esteem" Criticism that is constructive does not create something physical (they are words), encourage prestige (which would involve multiple parties extolling virtue not criticism), reputation (again multiple parties plus a +/- value) maybe it will build self esteem - feel free to link a relevant, valid psychological article. "If we do not allow for some kind of "special" immunity to those people that are being harshly criticised simply because of there religion,... than how does a society govern morality when it comes to how fairly we treat jews, blacks, muslims, homosexuals, etc, etc...." Fallacy - slippery slope. Contradiction - How is it distinctive or unique if you want it applied broadly? "Lets say this is a few years down the road and you have been promoted to McDonalds assistant manager,... You are in charge of hiring a new nugget operations tech,... You have 2 applicants,... Charlie the non denominational no faith libertarian,... and Susan the muslim. Your criticism of Susan,... she is a muslim, muslims are the cause of all the terrorsim in the world. You hire Charlie, because you dont like Susan because she is a muslim,... Susan does not have a job,... you have violated her rights to be muslim and to work through criticisms of her religion that led to oppression,..." Firstly there are already anti-discrimination laws in place for such an event. Secondly there is no criticism except what occurs internally. Thirdly there is no violation of ability to be a religious person which is distinct from discrimination in regards to that belief. At any rate one would think, inflicting the living hell that fast food work appears to be, if anyone was so inclined, hiring them to the position would be the done thing. :D "History shows us that religion, race, and sex MUST have some kind of SPECIAL immunity when it comes to criticism such as destructive criticism in particular, because it does and has led to oppression." Contradiction. You claim it must have special immunity (distinctive, unique) but wish it applied broadly. "One does NOT have to the right to oppress someones rights to have that religion" Fallacy - Straw man. It has never been argued that it does and you have failed to show the validity of lumping violence, destruction, slander, discrimination and oppression under criticism. "nce someone criticized someone with motives based soley on religion, that becomes oppression based on religion" Person X says "I believe Christians are immoral." How exactly are you now oppressed? "Without special immunity against religion based criticism,... we walk a dangerous path that this country has been down before,..." Falllacy - Slippery slope. My opponent has singularly failed to construct any valid form of destructive criticism. Merely applying the two terms together does not create a valid construct. Even when treated as valid it is clearly not the opposite of what it is claimed. Additionally she/he continually contradicts, urging special immunity, special in the sense that it is applied broadly i.e. not special. There has been complete failure to address any points raised in my opening R1, and I have dealt with all of Cons.