Re: Blasphemy Day
shogun <[email protected]> Wed, 2 Oct 2024 16:59:04 +0000
| Newsgroups | alt.atheism,talk.atheism,alt.agnosticism,talk.philosophy.humanism,sci.skeptic |
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| Organization | bakufu |
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Bob Casanova wrote: > On Wed, 02 Oct 2024 09:08:20 -0700, the following appeared > in sci.skeptic, posted by Don_from_AZ > <[email protected]>: > >> shogun <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Bob Casanova wrote: >>>> On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 17:16:28 +0000, the following appeared in >>>> sci.skeptic, posted by sora <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>>> David Dalton wrote: >>>>>> Sept. 30 is Blasphemy Day, which from Wikipedia “educates >>>>>> individuals and groups about blasphemy laws and defends freedom >>>>>> of expression, especially the open criticism of religion which is >>>>>> criminalized in many countries”. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> religion from 2k or 1k or 200 or even 50 years ago is no longer >>>>> relevant. >>>>> >>>> Relevant to what? >>> >>> >>> relevant to helping people navigate life in 2020s and post. >>> >> It's relevant if you live anywhere in the Islamic controlled world, and >> many other places as well. >> > Yep. The answer to which you replied is hopelessly > parochial; "it's irrelevant to my immediate social circle, > therefore it's irrelevant for everyone and everywhere". >> i would regard religious people as fundamentally wrong, being on the wrong side of history. being wrong also means it provides no benefit to its adherents. they are choosing to become obsolete.