Organized Religion Discussion Thread

[Twin-Skies]

The problem with free speech is people mistake it for freedom to do whatever they want, regardless of whether or not they're ready to face the consequences.

I don't see much a difference between this argument, and when a rapist says they committed their crime because said victim was wearing provocative clothes.

"Because they had it coming." is a good weak justification.

But doing something which you know is against someone's most hallowed beliefs in the first place? That's flat out bad too.

Rude, yes. Illegal, no. And last I checked, we don't arrest or shoot people for being jackasses, do we?

Furthermore why should religious institutions get a free pass at criticism, more so when they user their doctrine justify their willingess to subvert people?

Shall we arrest every researcher responsible for the blasphemous data they accumulated in the Murphy Report in Ireland, which documented all of the country's most recent sex abuse cases as committed by the RCC? Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali herself has received multiple death threats for her criticism of Islam's poor treatment of women. Then there's that fatwa against Salman Rushdie because of his writing of Satanic Verses. The problem with "blashpemy" is that it is used as a catch-all shield for any valid criticism against the religion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murphy_Report