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   =?UTF-8?Q?Xx/v]andrak|=e2=89=a1xX?= to jojo   
   Re: Blasphemy Day   
   13 Mar 25 16:53:51   
   
   XPost: alt.atheism, talk.atheism, alt.agnosticism   
   XPost: sci.skeptic   
   From: xmfuller@t.query.com   
      
   jojo wrote:   
   > anthk wrote:   
   >> On 2024-10-02, shogun  wrote:   
   >>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> The closest to a religion I'd believe would be   
   >> synchronicity+pansichysm, but far from   
   >> any judeo-christian/islamic sect or dogma.   
   >>   
   >   
   > there might be something to synchronicity, but panpsychism.... ehhh dont   
   > think so.   
   >   
      
   No one's saying there's synchronicity jojo.   
   --   
   1.11 hrs the number of the beast You try to keep me in cages But baby   
   you got to catch me first You think your love is contagious I do my best   
   you cant do your worst "Nonsense." --Joannis PapaOomMowMow   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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