Atheists Celebrating 'Blasphemy Rights Day' Say Criticizing Religion Is 'Human Right'

[trotsky]

http://www.christianpost.com/news/atheists-celebrating-blasphemy-rights-day-say-criticizing-religion-human-right-170117/

An atheist group celebrating the upcoming International Blasphemy Rights Day on Friday, has said that laws around the world that restrict or punish those who criticize religion take away the rights of atheists, Christians, and other people.

"In too many countries around the world, criticizing religion is illegal. We've seen the consequences of these laws too many times — when a tweet or a post on Facebook declaring one's atheism or questioning a tenet of religion leads to arrests, beatings, prison, and sometimes death sentences," the Center for Inquiry, which set up the first event in 2009, said in a statement on Monday.

"Sometimes religious militants make their own laws, deciding for themselves that expressions of dissent justify brutal killings, like the grisly murders of secularists in Bangladesh, or attacks on religious minorities in Pakistan," the group added.

The Facebook page for International Blasphemy Rights Day has highlighted the stories of several different people who have faced jail time or other punishments for criticizing or doing something that goes against the dominant religion of their respective countries.

[iandhr]

1. I love blasphemy.

Here are some of my favorite blasphemous humor.

www.theonion.com/article/no-one-murdered-because-of-this-image-29553

[PassingFair]

2. Hahahahaha!

Here's my favorite:

[Albertoo]

3. Religion fears blasphemy because it exposes how hollow religion is

religion stands only thanks to violence (forced conversions, apostasy laws) and fear (from death, from being ostracized from the in-group)

When the spell of fear-enforced respect breaks, the god emperor has no clothes:

the 'holy' texts being too dumb to withstand honest scrutiny.