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RE: Blasphemy II
May 11, 2012 at 1:08 am
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
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Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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RE: Blasphemy II
May 11, 2012 at 9:05 am
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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RE: Blasphemy II
May 11, 2012 at 9:16 am
(January 7, 2012 at 6:59 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I wish I had a picture of it, but a tattoo artist I know has a photo of a tattoo he did in his portfolio. It's titled "Jesus Fucking Christ".
You guessed it - it is a tattoo of Jesus. Fucking Christ. In the ass.
I genuinely didn't guess that but now that image is burned permanently into my mind anyway so once again Cthulhu, thank you. -.-
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RE: Blasphemy II
May 12, 2012 at 1:51 pm
I didn't answer... has anyone else here read T.S. Eliot's essay "After Strange Gods"? He makes point that religious blasphemy can't really be talked about in a secular society as a prerequisite for blasphemy is a genuine belief in what you are blaspheming. The summing up quote goes something like this: "It is no more blasphemy for an atheist to take the Lord's name in vain, than if a parrot were to copy the oaths of his master."
Astute point, IMO... that's why salmon Rushdie incurred so much wrath, when other people who had commented on the "satanic verses" that the novel alluded to did not... Rushdie was raised Muslim.