Re: Blasphemy Day
jojo <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Mar 2025 02:14:37 +0000
| Newsgroups | alt.atheism,talk.atheism,alt.agnosticism,talk.philosophy.humanism,sci.skeptic |
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Xx/v]andrak|≡xX wrote: > jojo wrote: >> Xx/v]andrak|≡xX wrote: >>> jojo wrote: >>>> anthk wrote: >>>>> 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. >>>>> >>>> >>>> there might be something to synchronicity, but >>>> panpsychism.... ehhh dont think so. >>>> >>> >>> No one's saying there's synchronicity jojo. >> >> you are saying it, you are saying there is panpsychism. >> > > I don't know what that is. it means you are connected with everyone and everything in the universe through some substrate.