(January 29, 2015 at 12:25 am)Eager Mind Wrote: Just out of curiosity, does anyone here not believe that their should be freedom of speech and religious expression in our country?
Should the humiliation of Christians possibly be considered a hate-crime? Where do you draw the line and does no line take us down a slippery slope?
Love over tongue-lashing or na?[/i]
No empathetic person, I would call sane, no matter their label, should suggest hating others merely because they exist.
But I do hate bad claims and bad logic and those claims should never get a taboo staltus, even if the other has the right to make the claim.
I can value the likes of Muslims like Malala and Muslim Senator Keith Ellison and the likes of Martin Luther King Jr, and the likes of Ann Frank. But that does not mean I have to like god claims as ideas.
I am a flaming social liberal for mixed religious marriages and gay marriage. I am certainly willing to vote for believing politicians who hold the same economic and pluralistic views I do.
BUT that does not mean what they hold to be true, even the non violent religious people. Liberals and moderates of ALL religions always fail to understand that whatever good they point to in their holy books, they are still using the exact same books with the same words, that others use to justify bigotry and violence. THAT is something everyone should accept and be aware of.
Human rights are a given, but ideas by themselves should never get blind value and should ALWAYS be open to criticism and blasphemy.
Bigoted hate is ignorance. Hate of bad logic should be the norm and is simply a matter of evidence.
