Re: Blasphemy Day
anthk <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:23:22 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-10-02, shogun <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > The closest to a religion I'd believe would be synchronicity+pansichysm, but far from any judeo-christian/islamic sect or dogma.