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I don't mind that any of you are atheists, that's your right to be, but I can only agree when you make jokes about PEOPLE who are misusing religion for political and other purposes. Not the exact religion. I don't see why you would offend me or anybody else's RIGHT to believe.
This is out?
It somehow offends your right to believe, then? How exactly?
I submit that it's quite different human rights that are at stake here. The above cartoon actually threatened to land a German artist in Greek prison in 2005.
He meant it as a piece of religious satire, a playful look at the life of Jesus. But Gerhard Haderer's depiction of Christ as a binge-drinking friend of Jimi Hendrix and naked surfer high on cannabis has caused a furore that could potentially land the cartoonist in jail. Haderer did not even know that his book, The Life of Jesus, had been published in Greece until he received a summons to appear in court in Athens in January charged with blasphemy.
Haderer did not even know that his book, The Life of Jesus, had been published in Greece until he received a summons to appear in court in Athens in January charged with blasphemy.
Again, I am dismayed that people here make common cause with the most brute and blackguard religious right. You know, the guys at whose behest they murdered Jesus?
I'm not sure whether you really support religious cencorship, but if so, please do the rest of us one little favor: don't call yourself a 'liberal'.
(PS. Quantum Mechanics is some seventy years old.) The world's northernmost desert wind.
It somehow offends your right to believe, then? How exactly? * Well not that this one offends ME personally, but I may have "wider angle" because I grew up in communist country. I can imagine people (like Greeks) that grew up in community where religion had much stronger influence, being offended. This caricature "offends" me for different reason. It makes fun of me in a way like it's telling me: "Hey you moron how can you believe in anything that stupid?"...I refuse to argue but then I have to ask back "OK. But how can you believe in anything so pathetic as Darwin's "monkey" theory...you monkey..." and here it goes, we can step on each other throat ...I would rather skip the whole thing and let you believe what ever you want in favor to let me do the same.
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"I'm not sure whether you really support religious censorship, but if so, please do the rest of us one little favor: don't call yourself a 'liberal'." * I do support religious , nationalistic, gender, and other kinds of "censorship" or better say I support abstinence (but do not mix me with Bush and abstinence he recommended, ha-ha) of mucking people around about things that most people are sensitive of. It never had any result that I would be favorable of.
I do not call my self "liberal" and as I said previously my position in politic is not even left of the centre but more centre itself. All though I find I have much in common with views of you "liberals" here...what ever that means, because here in Australia Howard's party is named 'Liberal" and they are not exactly what word would suggest. They are very far right and are liberal only about "free trade" (what ever they make of it).
Quote: (PS. Quantum Mechanics is some seventy years old.) * Thank you for your information. I am totally in the dark regarding physic. I have to admit my friend must be totally out of the date, ha-ha. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind...Albert Einstein
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