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In reply to the discussion: In defense of the need to post blasphemous caricatures [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)In many places you die for it.
That is why I gladly blaspheme, and why I think everybody ought to take joy in it as well. Nobody's beliefs are beyond question, evidence, or ridicule. Nobody. Not even mine... Especially not mine!
But people have to let this shit go, or we will never progress much further than those horrible genocides of the Pentateuch, where Jahweh commanded that all men, children, animals, and women who had known man should be slaughtered, but keep the virgin women for yourselves.
One might argue that these were Biblical marriages. If so, I haven't heard such from the Bible toting, quoting GOP.
Religion disgusts me. But freedom of conscience is more important.
I don't give a fuck what other people believe (or not believe). However, I might very well have something to say about how they act. That is my measure.