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   jojo to All   
   Re: Blasphemy Day   
   13 Mar 25 22:32:51   
   
   XPost: alt.atheism, talk.atheism, alt.agnosticism   
   XPost: sci.skeptic   
   From: f00@0f0.00f   
      
   Xx/v]andrak|≡xX wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   you are saying it, you are saying there is panpsychism.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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