Besides that, I am at a content, peaceful place since deconverting. Its the right of free people to believe in things they can't prove, just as it my free-right to disbelieve and not be able to positively prove my disbelief. Life goes on regardless.

In nearly all cases, their brainwashing is not their fault and it makes no sense to make fun of them. Insulting people just pisses them off and they're not going to listen to anything else you say, no matter how right you are. You'd have a hard time convincing them the sun was out at high noon.

And here we have one saying she'd be more insulted if you mocked her beliefs than she would if you insulted her personally. I guess that's just one more example of how irrational believers can be. Try to be polite and reasonable and it just pisses them off. That programming they get sure does run deep.

Specifically, I wouldn't make fun of them just for the sake of making fun of them. Sure, it'd be fun, but it wouldn't achieve anything for either side. But if I want to point out a flaw – either in the Christians or their beloved deities – I will ridicule away. If an aspect of their belief system is so absurd that it induces lolz, there is no point in trying to disguise it.

For me its not a matter of one side being more sacred over another. The simple fact that the god concept cannot be proven or disprove, what is really the point to ridicule? I've been guilty of it many times myself but heck, when I was a believer I was guilty of making fun of atheists. So until one side can actually make a positive assertion that stands against all criticism, making fun of religion is exactly the same as making fun of disbelief. If one is making a claim that cannot be proven, it would go to think that both claims could maybe be irrational.

The Atheist wants to say a belief in god is irrational since it can't be proven but yet, many themselves admit that you cannot positively prove that god doesn't exist, so I would ask, if that is the case, how is that anymore rational than the religious person making their claims? Sure we don't go and make claims that defy the laws of the universe and that if it would be the case, it would have no other option but to be a "super"natural event, yet I don't know if one side is more rational than the other since either side cannot be proven either way.

So the ridiculing just seems pointless. I say live and let live.

Actually, I can empathize with the writer who said this. If a family member of mine were insulted, I'd do my best to defend them even if they could take care of themselves. It's love. And Christians do believe they have a loving relationship with the Big Dude.

That granted, I still agree with you