RE: Questions for your Religious friends.
June 3, 2021 at 10:25 am
(This post was last modified: June 3, 2021 at 10:28 am by Fake Messiah.)
People have a right to disrespect gods, sacred symbols, your sensibilities, feelings, ridicule your religion.
At least they have that right to disrespect and offend in free countries. That's why the founding fathers didn't make this country on some religious principles, but secular, humanist principles.
Where people don't have these freedoms is in theocracies.
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
At least they have that right to disrespect and offend in free countries. That's why the founding fathers didn't make this country on some religious principles, but secular, humanist principles.
Where people don't have these freedoms is in theocracies.
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
