Imperial_Samura
Anticrust Smurf
Hmmm, in a modern setting, I wouldn't be offended, per say, as you would have to be committing some wrong against my views or me to offend me - and my religious views at this point in time aren't linked really to temples or Churches. However, I would view it as very wrong, legally, and morally, as it lacks basic respect for people,. Gods are irrelevant in this, they can fight their own battles if they exist, but for the people who worship there, work there, find faith or happiness or hope or whatever, well, it's wrong to spit on such things. Respect and decency are the operative words here.
After all, I believe I am going to be cremated when I eventually shuffle of the mortal coil, but I find people who desecrate cemeteries to be aboslute scum. Pointless, meaningless, insensitive destruction. Same with people who desecrate war memorials.
As to ancient temples, well I study a lot of history, and I know it's important to learn about the past, and in a way it keeps the religion alive. And there is a fundamental difference between some yahoo, or religious fanatic or skin head or whatever destroying a temple or church out of malice or just ignorant destruction and archaeologists and historians who preserve and learn from them in a careful, controlled and hopefully non-damaging manner. And once again, it's down to people. Many ancient religions either no longer exist or have changed vastly - thus most ancient temples have no followers to be offended, in fact, if not for archaeologists the temples would probably end up being destroyed by the crawl of time.