I realize that it's a very common means of expressing one's disagreement, but it's a very weak and ultimately self-defeating means.
We can identify with it without being embarrassed of ourselves.
He didnt put any emphasiss on ridiculing religion but on criticising it for its flaws of course he did include ridicule as it any person should have the right to ridicule a religion as they would ridicule a president or a law under free speech And I am pointing out that his including ridicule as a form of protest is wrong.