RE: I love my Christian friend
July 26, 2009 at 8:39 am
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2009 at 8:40 am by Purple Rabbit.)
(July 21, 2009 at 6:50 pm)LEDO Wrote:It is essential to have that free speech without exception. What other means to fight ignorance would we have than to use our free speech against those faith claims? Pre-emptive nuking? Moreover, how would we know about those claims, without free speech?(July 21, 2009 at 2:52 am)Purple Rabbit Wrote:(July 20, 2009 at 4:38 pm)LEDO Wrote: Yes, the same way as Christians and Muslims...why we could go door to door, torture people who did not convert, have a crusade or two, and knock down perfectly good buildings with usable planes. Or we could not care. Is it imporatant to convert people to our way of thinking?Faith is under the right of free speech. Trying to let people think your way is just vanity, but of course nothing human is strange.
But what if your faith claims homesexuals, blacks, or women are inferior? Is it right to have that free speech when it leads to hate crimes, slavery, genocide, and subjugation of women? Or if your religious free speech leads to the murder of an abortion doctor?
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0