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5. Let's examine the 'if the shoe were on the other foot' argument.....
....wouldn't those of us, religious folks, like the same protection against that "which offends, humiliates, intimidates, insults or ridicules" us?????
Not hardly.
"Oxford don Richard Dawkins, in his God Delusions, described God as a “petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
This is the same God who was born on earth of the virgin Mary, the God whose name is Jesus. As a Christian, it cuts deep to hear the person you love abused like this. And of course it’s an attack on our character: “You worship a God like that?”
But I’m glad Dawkins can speak freely. Because free speech is important. Free speech is how goodness and truth comes to be discovered and tested and defined. It’s how what is harmful and false comes to be exposed and discarded.
We argue, we question, we challenge each other, and we grow.
And if my opponent resorts to the ad hominem, to call me a “Bigot with Bible” (to cite a recent example), then that just reveals the emptiness of their argument." MercatorNet: Areopagitica Tasmania
The point: simply provide an answer to whatever is said.....not shut down the right to say it.
Unless one is a Fascist/Nazi....Democrat.
....wouldn't those of us, religious folks, like the same protection against that "which offends, humiliates, intimidates, insults or ridicules" us?????
Not hardly.
"Oxford don Richard Dawkins, in his God Delusions, described God as a “petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
This is the same God who was born on earth of the virgin Mary, the God whose name is Jesus. As a Christian, it cuts deep to hear the person you love abused like this. And of course it’s an attack on our character: “You worship a God like that?”
But I’m glad Dawkins can speak freely. Because free speech is important. Free speech is how goodness and truth comes to be discovered and tested and defined. It’s how what is harmful and false comes to be exposed and discarded.
We argue, we question, we challenge each other, and we grow.
And if my opponent resorts to the ad hominem, to call me a “Bigot with Bible” (to cite a recent example), then that just reveals the emptiness of their argument." MercatorNet: Areopagitica Tasmania
The point: simply provide an answer to whatever is said.....not shut down the right to say it.
Unless one is a Fascist/Nazi....Democrat.