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   From: nospam@buzz.off   
      
   On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 02:06:06 +0000, the following appeared in   
   sci.skeptic, posted by shogun :   
      
   >Bob Casanova wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 16:59:04 +0000, the following appeared in   
   >> sci.skeptic, posted by shogun :   
   >>   
   >>> Bob Casanova wrote:   
   >>>> On Wed, 02 Oct 2024 09:08:20 -0700, the following appeared   
   >>>> in sci.skeptic, posted by Don_from_AZ   
   >>>> :   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> shogun  writes:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> Bob Casanova wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 17:16:28 +0000, the following appeared in   
   >>>>>>> sci.skeptic, posted by sora :   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> David Dalton wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>> Sept. 30 is Blasphemy Day, which from Wikipedia “educates   
   >>>>>>>>> individuals and groups about blasphemy laws and defends freedom   
   >>>>>>>>> of expression, especially the open criticism of religion which is   
   >>>>>>>>> criminalized in many countries”.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> religion from 2k or 1k or 200 or even 50 years ago is no longer   
   >>>>>>>> relevant.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Relevant to what?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> relevant to helping people navigate life in 2020s and post.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>> It's relevant if you live anywhere in the Islamic controlled world, and   
   >>>>> many other places as well.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> Yep. The answer to which you replied is hopelessly   
   >>>> parochial; "it's irrelevant to my immediate social circle,   
   >>>> therefore it's irrelevant for everyone and everywhere".   
   >>>>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> i would regard religious people as fundamentally wrong, being on   
   >>> the wrong side of history. being wrong also means it provides no   
   >>> benefit to its adherents. they are choosing to become obsolete.   
   >>>   
   >> There was no need to confirm what I wrote; I already knew I   
   >> was correct.   
   >   
   >   
   >nice. so are you a pious person?   
   >   
   Why do you ask? It wouldn't affect the accuracy of my   
   comment either way.   
   >   
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