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   Message 89,686 of 89,766   
   shogun to Bob Casanova   
   Re: Blasphemy Day   
   03 Oct 24 02:06:06   
   
   XPost: alt.atheism, alt.agnosticism, talk.philosophy.humanism   
   XPost: sci.skeptic   
   From: f00@0f0.00f   
      
   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?   
      
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