RE: Why are Atheists afraid to insult Islam and Jews?
April 21, 2015 at 7:16 pm
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2015 at 7:21 pm by Brian37.)
(April 21, 2015 at 6:59 pm)Deidre32 Wrote:(April 21, 2015 at 6:56 pm)Brian37 Wrote: What?
Sorry, but that is the argument used when someone wants to shut down a conversation. I bet you don't like Bill Maher either.
When you form a group on old books with fantastic claims and go to war over them and cause the entire planet to have to divert resources to it; I think that blasphemy verbally by people who wish that would stop is appropriate to those who are participating in that conflict show that only care about their own tribes.
Since when did atheism become synonymous with walking on eggshells? Religious people kill over their beliefs, I think being killed because you offended someone with no intent of killing them, is far worse than getting offended.
If you believe that insulting theists will destroy religion, it won't. But, if that is where you'd like to spend your energy, that's fine. Atheism isn't synonymous with walking on eggshells or insulting. It doesn't need to be either or.
"How dare you insult Islam"...............Lots of Muslims say that to Christians and atheists as well, should we not insult them? You are going to tell me an insult is worth silencing someone as a blanket solution? If all 7 billion humans got to silence those who insult them we could all think of others we'd like to silence.
And when you use the word "destroy" you are using that to falsely equate that to a call to use force against believers.
"That is not true" by itself is enough for many believers to say "SHUT UP" and in some places in the world you get arrested or killed just for saying "that is not true".
FOR EXAMPLE ONLY
If I say to someone "that is bullshit" that is the worst they will get from me. Being blunt does not make me a fascist, it simply makes me blunt. Nowhere in "that is bullshit" can you read into that "I want government to silence you" or "I want you dead because you say stupid things". It just makes me blunt.
I can also post Mr Deity's "Way of the Mister" video response to the Pope who equated picking on religion was like picking on someone's mother. He cussed the Pope out, you going to stop everyone who blasphemes religion?
No I will not stop "insulting" religion. Humans have rights, but ideas don't deserve taboos, just because you have the right to claim them. And that "insult" was not an insult, it was more like saying "No the New York Yankees did not win the Superbowl, they play baseball, that is a ridiculous thing to claim".
It is a blunt way of saying "Think about what you are saying".
