Should we ban blasphemy

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

And a lot will be solved by trashing it. No, it's just an excuse to take a few flogs at everyone's favorite whipping subject.

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.