Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr3.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!eu1.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=\U8VYj_VUCVe5ojYT5\g5QVPK>l0=NjBT]1LaAS32<@]>0[NkJ?RQ>_]b?ch_V=H5W=kL`U3V6fhUQ Subject: Re: Blasphemy Day Newsgroups: alt.atheism,talk.atheism,alt.agnosticism,talk.philosophy.humanism,sci.skeptic References: <2cf4512a-8be6-647f-8a7f-a2b3d81d7bc8@ashikaga.tokugawa> <57306913-713b-8fce-0173-9ed296c730f7@ashikaga.tokugawa> X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://eunews.blocknews.net Organization: jieigyou X-No-Archive: Yes Message-ID: <723e0232-85db-d646-f30e-2f7473c28d56@shinku.aoyagi.konjou> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 06:39:29 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 99 NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1741934387 reader.netnews.com 22 127.0.0.1:43683 Xref: csiph.com alt.atheism:3436350 talk.atheism:103120 alt.agnosticism:78395 talk.philosophy.humanism:1944 sci.skeptic:113183 Bob Casanova wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:05:02 -0500, the following appeared > in sci.skeptic, posted by Dawn Flood > : > >> On 10/4/2024 11:10 AM, Bob Casanova wrote: >>> On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 10:45:56 +0000, the following appeared in >>> sci.skeptic, posted by shogun : >>> >>>> Bob Casanova wrote: >>>>> On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 08:00:25 +0000, the following appeared in >>>>> sci.skeptic, posted by shogun : >>>>> >>>>>> Bob Casanova wrote: >>>>>>> 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. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> i have no qualms with its accuracy. i am curious and want to know >>>>>> the kind of views believers and non-believers espouse. >>>>>> >>>>> Hopefully, both "espouse" the same reality, the facts of >>>>> which are not subject to belief or disbelief. >>>> >>>> >>>> that's a nice dream. >>>> >>> Isn't it, though? >>> >>> Have a nice day, and try to expand beyond your parochialism >>> WRT the relevance of religion; the world isn't identical to >>> your social circle. >>>> >> >> Hey Bob, >> >> Heads up about Jojo -- Mom needs to take his (her?) Internet away, and >> until that happens, discretion is advised. >> > No worries; flakes are always among us. I was inoculated > long ago. ;-) oh were you, BOOOOBBB?? why dont you and dawn marry each other? just two nice innoculated people.