Today is International Blasphemy Day! It’s celebrated on Sept. 30 as a memorial to the publication of the cartoons of Mohammad in Denmark that stirred up Muslim rage around the world. It’s intended as a free speech rebuke to religion.
From an article in the Toronto Star:
Organizers are “inviting people to speak their mind on issues related to religion, free speech, censorship, secularism” and other related topics, said spokesman Justin Trottier.
Despite the day’s stated purpose, Trottier say they do not intend to offend the religious.
“We feel there’s no such thing as a human right not to be offended,” he said. “We live in a democratic society, which means you get offended and you better get used to that.”
They’re slightly more inflammatory on the official website, though, where they have an “Apostasy Challenge” inviting you to convert to Islam, then defame Allah or the Koran — risking death, by the way.
I find organized religions to be insidious — they are organized in such a way that the less you can prove, the more your faith is worth. And unless your particular god or religion is more believable than the Flying Spaghetti Monster, I can’t respect it.
Grant Hamilton
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Oh I don’t know. The Japanese Shinto religion, much like pagan beliefs, say that everything in that lives in nature has a spirit of some sort, from the trees to the chipmunks. While we can debate the finer points of “do we or do we not have a soul,” it’s not such a stretch to think that there is a major difference between a chunk of igneous rock, and your pet cat. One can choose to poop on the rug, the other can’t. I for one would like to believe that this denotes some higher purpose to the universe.
Faith to live by.
I, for one, respect your ability to attach a higher purpose in the universe to an object’s ability to poop on a rug.