What are your views with regards to blasphemy? Are you offended by it? Should blasphemy be limited, or tolerated at all? Did this thread offend you? Discuss freely.
Blasphemy - your views
What are your views with regards to blasphemy? Are you offended by it? Should blasphemy be limited, or tolerated at all? Did this thread offend you? Discuss freely.
I think they all should be allowed, BUT I will try to limit use if I am around someone who I know will be offended by it.
Cattle die, kinsmen die,
the self must also die;
but glory never dies,
For the one who is able to achieve it.
Sayings of the High One.
Blasphemy laws, as we have in finland, arent quite part of the modern world. Correspondinly those are nowadays used only to defend islam from the truth.... like its criminal to point out mohammed was a pedophile, guess it will be criminal too to read parts of the quoran that arent favorable to them..
Freedom of speech.. just should never be touched.
Blasphemy is a form of prayer. It is a sacrament.
I think that every country has some special mentality, habits, history and traditions, which will make blasphemy to be allowed or not, more or less tolerated. Some generalized, universalistic moralizing about blasphemy is therefore meaningless. That's speaking from a merely legal(istic) point of view.
If I'm offended or not depends almost entirely on who it's coming from and on their character. The more despicable their character is, the less I am offended by it, because I am only offended if it takes me by surprise.
Last edited by Lutiferre; 09-11-2009 at 10:23 PM.
A man who fights for a cause thereby affirms the cause of the fight.
Yes blasphemy should be allowed. True freedom of speech entails the freedom to offend.
Anti-blasphemy laws/taboos are primarily a tool of social cohesion and doctrinal conformity, thus, they only make sense when applied to believers. Otherwise, if you're god is omnipotent and omniscient, he most certainly doesn't need you to defend him.
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split."
-Robert E. Howard
Dare I ask then, do/did I offend you?Originally Posted by Lutiferre
Sure. If anything, they are to be defended from themselves.
That's also why, if I get offended by it, it's only if it is used as a way to insult me personally, that is, with a total disrespect of me and my beliefs.
A man who fights for a cause thereby affirms the cause of the fight.
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