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#41
RE: The Blasphemy Thread
October 12, 2023 at 2:15 pm
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RE: The Blasphemy Thread
October 13, 2023 at 12:40 am
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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"
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#43
RE: The Blasphemy Thread
October 13, 2023 at 5:05 am
(October 12, 2023 at 1:11 pm)FrustratedFool Wrote: Wasn't Gandhi Hindu?

Also, plenty of Buddhist believers use violence against those who they feel are sacrilegious against Buddha.

My mistake. But it still applies. Hinduism has no concept of blasphemy, either - the notion doesn't exist in the dharmic religions.

Buddhists violating the teaching of Buddha? Pfft. Next, you'll be asking me to believe that Christians break the Ten Commandments.

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#44
RE: The Blasphemy Thread
October 13, 2023 at 5:47 am
Lol. Yeah, dogma and praxis rarely line up withany consistency. But since it's the praxis which beheads you and not the dogma, I'll judge whether blasphemy exist under an ideology by what adherents do and not what they say.
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#45
RE: The Blasphemy Thread
October 13, 2023 at 6:24 am
(October 13, 2023 at 5:47 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: Lol.  Yeah, dogma and praxis rarely line up withany consistency.  But since it's the praxis which beheads you and not the dogma, I'll judge whether blasphemy exist under an ideology by what adherents do and not what they say.

That’s not really a tenable position. Violation of the ideology doesn’t make that violation part of the ideology. Kinda definitional, that is.

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#46
RE: The Blasphemy Thread
October 13, 2023 at 7:44 am
I understand, and synoathise with what you day. But without taking behaviour into account you end with saying silly things like Islam is a peaceful religion or Buddhists don't assault people for blasphemy. If an ideology in the abstract says X, but the followers routinely do Y, then it becomes tricky to talk about the religion being X or Y.

Guess it depends on the context of the chat and whether fine distinctions are being made between what is said and what is done.
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RE: The Blasphemy Thread
October 13, 2023 at 10:01 am
Mary the mother of Jesus got her cherry popped by a man who was not Joseph and proceeded to lie about being knocked up by God. Joseph didn't believe it, but everyone else did, and Joseph went along with it to make it seem like he was not a cuckold.
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RE: The Blasphemy Thread
October 13, 2023 at 10:26 am
(October 13, 2023 at 10:01 am)Ahriman Wrote: Mary the mother of Jesus got her cherry popped by a man who was not Joseph and proceeded to lie about being knocked up by God. Joseph didn't believe it, but everyone else did, and Joseph went along with it to make it seem like he was not a cuckold.

Makes more sense that the alternative!
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RE: The Blasphemy Thread
October 17, 2023 at 7:29 am
Cucked by God.
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RE: The Blasphemy Thread
October 17, 2023 at 10:00 am
(October 13, 2023 at 10:26 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote:
(October 13, 2023 at 10:01 am)Ahriman Wrote: Mary the mother of Jesus got her cherry popped by a man who was not Joseph and proceeded to lie about being knocked up by God. Joseph didn't believe it, but everyone else did, and Joseph went along with it to make it seem like he was not a cuckold.

Makes more sense that the alternative!

Nah, story says nobody else believed that shit.  Just joseph.
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