(June 25, 2015 at 8:14 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote: It has become quite strict. For example you can't criticise a religion because it is politically incorrect, stuff like that.
Fuck moses. Fuck jesus. Fuck allah.
See? It can be done.
Fuck three nonexistent things. Yeah, I don't have a problem with that.
Also, in reference to what you quote, it is possible to criticize a religion without being bigoted about the members of it. Many people seem to be confused about this point, but there is a significant difference between saying that you believe a religion is false and that everyone who is a member of it is a child molester. Catholicism is false, but not every Catholic is a child molester. However, a significant number of Catholic priests are child molesters, and the organization systematically protected them, which means that the Catholic Church (the organization) is evil. Of course, that should have been obvious from the Inquisition, but we can be sure that they continue to do much evil in our time as well as in the past.
It would be wrong, though, to say that all Catholics are child molesters, or even that all priests are child molesters. Probably, some of the priests low in the organization had nothing to do with hiding the child molesters. But, they are part of an evil organization that has done that, and very likely continues to do that.
We can do the same sort of thing with other religions. Not all muslims are murderous terrorists, and so it would be wrong to call them all murderous terrorists. Some, though, clearly are evil scumbags, and some of their evil is religiously motivated (at least in part).
Of course, getting things right (that is, being accurate) is harder to do than to just judge entire groups of people. This is why people with shit for brains often are bigoted racists, misogynists, etc., because it is easier to judge entire groups than to judge people individually by their merits. Thinking to too difficult for some people, and so they don't do it.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
