(May 25, 2011 at 5:07 pm)Zenith Wrote: I'm just curios... why do they not make a law to punish the 'prophets' that preach the date of the end of the world, after it is clear that it did not happen? (after, because there needs to be a good justification)Sadly I think the law would consider this more of a freedom of religion issue then freedom of speech and it seems to be that anything goes in the name of this freedom as long as there is no immediate harm being done such as sacrifice.
I mean, something like prison for life, death sentence, something. Think about how much evil these guys do, and for their deceit, they are not punished at all! On the other hand, they gather lots of money from the feeble minded; perhaps there are also people that sell their houses and give him the money or something, because the end of the world is coming!! You know, if deceiving the population had been punished, and punished harshly, then few would have dared doing something like that again. I do believe that people should have "freedom of speech", but within some limits!
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell