International Blasphemy Rights Day, held each year on September 30, is a day to promote the rights to freedom of belief and expression and stand up in a show of solidarity for the liberty to challenge reigning religious beliefs without fear of murder, litigation, or reprisal.
I do not approve but hey, good luck with that and I certainly support and defend the constitution, so...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_ky9dsrUQI
I can't help but sympathise with the views of this song. The more these religious fanatics (Christians, Moslems, Jews, Hindus or whatever) try to force their views on the rest of us or allow their religious ideologies to destroy any sense of their basic humanity (assuming they have any) or justify committing atrocities and cruelties in the name of their beliefs, the more inclined I am to utterly hate these people. Hatred is a product of fear, and I feel we have every reason to fear them because they do seem to think that they are justified in committing horrific acts of violence in the name of whatever god they bow down and suck up to.
ReplyDeleteWell Your Lordship, I fear them too, but not because of the reason they cite to justify their behavior - only because of the behavior itself. If you look on my facebook page, I posted an excerpt from Matthew 22:34-40 later yesterday.
ReplyDeleteMy tag-line was something about Love your neighbor not being a suggestion. I know that many of the religious people have forgotten the importance of that in their desire to feel superior to others.
You may hate them all you need to. It will not offend me in the slightest. I will have to settle for trying to remind them of the true nature of their responsibilities.
Farbulously Yours - Theo
I agree – everything in the four officially accepted gospels points to this man Christ being a man of peace and non-violence, except towards bankers! (And who can blame Him getting upset with those worshippers of Mammon?) Clearly, Jesus was no laissez faire capitalist; nor was he a warmonger. The gospels of Mary and Judas make interesting reading, since the extant versions of them are translations of originals made around 180 AD, suggesting the possibility that the originals might have indeed been written contemporaneous with when He supposedly lived, or at least shortly after He died. Whereas, I believe that the others were all composed at least 100 years after He was supposed to have lived.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting that there is also a secret revelation of John which, alas, is padded out with Gnostic ideas and beliefs, though the Gnostics represent a very early Christian sect (which also attracted a lot of the more philosophical rabbis of the time – so it was both Jewish and Christian), which was suppressed by the Roman Church once it had the power to suppress any interpretation which differed from its officially accepted one, as put forward at the Council of Nicea.
ReplyDeleteI think the time has come for a new theocracy. One based not on religion but rather on Theo... I shall be know as Theo the first or simply Theodorable.
ReplyDeleteDamn, there's no like button on here!
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