Re: Blasphemy Day

Bob Casanova <[email protected]> Wed, 02 Oct 2024 20:38:32 -0700
Newsgroups alt.atheism,talk.atheism,alt.agnosticism,talk.philosophy.humanism,sci.skeptic
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 02:06:06 +0000, the following appeared in
sci.skeptic, posted by shogun <[email protected]>:

>Bob Casanova wrote:
>> On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 16:59:04 +0000, the following appeared in
>> sci.skeptic, posted by shogun <[email protected]>:
>> 
>>> 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.
>>>
>> There was no need to confirm what I wrote; I already knew I
>> was correct.
>
>
>nice. so are you a pious person?
>
Why do you ask? It wouldn't affect the accuracy of my
comment either way.
>
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Bob C.

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