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Originally Posted by Skybird
Blasphemy is not bashing religion - blasphemy is calling any resistence to religion having its demanded way, a crime of hate, intolerance, or whatever.
You really have pushed yourself into a corner there.
Just check the many ways in which religiously motivated discrimination has found its ways into the laws and constitutions of quite several of your American federal states. For some reason that simply indicates double-standards, I have never heared a religious complaining about this sort of discrimination of different believers, or atheists. It seems that in some Americans' understanding even Bin Laden benefits from the circumstance that at least he was no atheist.
There are many people in your country that are afraid that their neighbours could find out that they are atheists, fearing for their jobs, the safety of their children when the are at school, their social life.
I had you separated from the usual religious zealots until today, but you repeatedly have illustrated now in some snapped comments the kind of double standards that usually come from right the religious zealots form which I tried to see you different. Should I take it that I have overestimated you?  Please say No.
Play your radio silent enough so that others do not need to bother. Then the others maybe will stop yelling at you. And maybe then you see what the link between both events is.
If somebody still wonders what blasphemy is, and when it is called that: not agreeing with this text - that is blasphemy. Simply replace the words "Islamic" "Sharia", "Muslim" etc generally with "religious" or "any religion", and you see what blasphemy is, and what the purpose is of making this call.
And maybe you also see why not just Islam is a problem, but any orthodox fundamentalism in any religion in general. Christian and/or Jewish zealots have much more in common with those Islamic evil-doers they condemn, than these zealots are aware of. The difference is only clothing and language. The mindsets are the same. |
And you have done nothing but prove my point; that you are using this thread yet another platform to trash religion. You simply take the opportunity to tell us that religion (except for your religion) is bad. That's a whole lot like the very people that you profess to stand against.
How silent is a silent radio for you? Am I allowed to go to mass? If I do, may I sing hymns? How many? Of what type? May I say 'God bless you' when someone sneezes? If so, how often? May I recite the Pledge of Allegiance? If so, how often should I omit 'under God'? I wasn't even aware that my faith was bothering you. I never proselytize, and certainly not on SubSim. In fact, the only time I talk about religion is when someone (usually you) is telling me how stupid religion is (except for your's, of course), and what a small-minded bigot I am for practicing it (also except for your's). It would seem that the very existence of the faith that I practice and the fact that I do practice it is an affront to you. In fact, on SubSim, it is
always the atheists throwing the punches and those of faith absorbing them. I am tired of it, Skybird. Very, very tired of it.
And you can respect me or not; it makes very little difference to me. As for me, I'll keep my views regarding you to myself.