Does it bother you more when non-Catholics mock Catholicism?

Though church attendance has never been lower in the Republic of Ireland among Catholics (it was 30% in 2011, as opposed to 91% in 1973), many people still identify as Catholic, culturally at least.

84.2% of people identified as Catholic in the 2011 census.

For those who do identify as lapsed Catholic, atheist or agnostic, do you think there's a difference between someone from a Catholic background mocking Catholicism, or making light of the Catholic church, and someone who doesn't come from that background?

Take Bill Maher, the controversial comedian and talk show host in America. Maher has always been upfront about being raised Catholic, and coming from an Irish background (he tweeted in 2012 “Watching rerun of [Olympic] opening ceremony at 3am. Despite all the **** they've given my people - the Irish - over the centuries, I still love the Brits”).

Maher is nevertheless very critical of the Catholic Church today.

In 2008 he said “If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you ‘Pope.’

It’s like if you can’t pay your mortgage, you’re a deadbeat, but if you can’t pay a million mortgages, you’re Bear Stearns, and we bail you out. And that’s who the Catholic Church is, the Bear Stearns of organized pedophilia. Too big to fail.”

Similarly, George Carlin, another American comedian, spoke of his Catholic upbringing many times during his career. In one of his HBO specials, he said

“But, in the meantime what they [Catholic bishops] ought to be doing is telling these priests who took a vow of chastity to keep their hands off the altar boys! Keep your hands to yourself, Father! You know? When Jesus said "Suffer the little children come unto me", that's not what he was talking about!”

However, there are many celebrities and comedians who do not come from a Catholic background who haved mocked Catholicisms and the scandals in the Church over the past few years.

Harry Shearer, who many will know as the voice of many characters on The Simpsons, including Mr Burns, has quipped, more than once, “Jack Benny took a fatherly interest in me – not in the Catholic priest sense of the word”.

John Landis, who directed Animal House, An American Werewolf in London and Trading Places, was once speaking about The Exorcist. He said, “it takes a basically ludicrous premise – Satan is in the body of this little girl, and somehow the Church, when they're not molesting young boys, will protect us from Satan!”.

Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller, in their documentary series Bullsh-t, had a joke about how “the Catholic church is in trouble. Priests raping boys will do that”.

While the content of each of these jokes is somewhat similar, what marks them as different is that Carlin and Maher were both raised Catholic, while Shearer, Landis and Jillette weren't.

Do you think people who come from a Catholic background have more of a right to mock Catholicism than those who don't come from that background? Or is a joke made from someone from a non-Catholic background no different than a joke made by someone from a Catholic background?