Fear No Evil
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Of course his avatar is juvenile. Grow up, punk.
Says the guy doing the name calling and personal attacks. Grow up, geezer.
Of course his avatar is juvenile. Grow up, punk.
Says the guy doing the name calling and personal attacks. Grow up, geezer.
Do I win?
Fuck religion.
Only if you believe picking the safest and easiest target.
On a side note.
This is the line in the sand that we must draw if we are to protect our freedoms and way of life. Do we give into the PC guilt and allow those who have no respect for the western tradition of freedom to bully us into giving up our freedoms or do we push back and tell them to fuck off?
Where's my damned broadb...er animated avatar!
I respect the notion of divinity and the proper sacredness that should therefore be accorded. I have no desire to make fun of other people's religious beliefs by intentionally defying them. I will not be drawing Mohamed on May 20th. But I think that anybody who arrogates to himself the idea that he can kill other people in the name of his god actually can't possibly be worshiping any real God. Only an asshole thinks he is important enough that God needs him to protect the Faith. The faith of real believers can't be shaken because the light of real faith is love. Nobody who really loves God would kill another. Only sick psychotics kill.
That's your vision of faith. As an atheist, I'd argue that the interpretation of faith decreeing that murder is necessary to protect God is every bit as valid. Both are no more than vivid imagination, after all.I respect the notion of divinity and the proper sacredness that should therefore be accorded. I have no desire to make fun of other people's religious beliefs by intentionally defying them. I will not be drawing Mohamed on May 20th. But I think that anybody who arrogates to himself the idea that he can kill other people in the name of his god actually can't possibly be worshiping any real God. Only an asshole thinks he is important enough that God needs him to protect the Faith. The faith of real believers can't be shaken because the light of real faith is love. Nobody who really loves God would kill another. Only sick psychotics kill.
Oh boy... not worth my time. Good day to you sir!...the amorality of atheist situational ethics...
M: Don't you see how odd that is? You're an atheist commenting on faith, something you know nothing about.
Here is what I envision him as looking like:
Well, the article is pretty clear that has nothing to do with it.
I see the Islamic faith as being an intolerant one. It is not the only one, just the one that has grown to be significant to a huge population and thus to even those who are not adherents.
When there is a certainty that your way is the only way and that by extension all others are blasphemers in the eyes of your God and you have been counseled to kill unbelievers should they not see the light, well you have what the world is facing right now.
The Taliban destroyed some magnificent Buddhist edifices in Afghanistan because they represented a false God to their eyes. Others prefer to kill cartoonists and caricaturists...
Vandalized Afghanistan
Why the Taliban Destroyed the Buddhist Statues
Here is what I envision him as looking like:
You're being more stupid than usual moonbeam. You honestly think people who lack belief in God don't know anything about it? Many atheists are former believers who know intimate details about the religion/church..having attended for many years. But putting that aside..even if they NEVER stepped foot inside a church, there is nothing that precludes them from having knowledge about how religions work and what the adherents preach. The vast majority of my research on Christianity took place after my "deconversion", and I'd venture to bet I know a great deal more religious doctrine than 98% of bible belt fundies. Lacking a certain belief says nothing about the knowledge one has of that belief.
I make cartoons about current, cultural events. I made a cartoon of a fictional ’poster’ entitled “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!” with a nonexistent group’s name — Citizens Against Citizens Against Humor — drawn on the cartoon also. It was in specific response to the recent censoring of a South Park episode. I did not intend for my cartoon to go viral. I did not intend to be the focus of any ’group’. I practice the first amendment by drawing what I wish. This particular cartoon has struck a gigantic nerve, something I was totally unprepared for.
Personally I can feel afraid of Muslims because I really have no idea if in their hearts they hate non-Muslims. There are so many interpretations of the religion that I hear told — sometimes it is a very extreme translation (that’s the scary part, the radicals that believe that Westerners should die), then at other times it sounds more peaceful.
I hope for the sake of this country that moderate Muslims will speak out with everyone else against any violent members of that or any other religion. That way I would know that there is a difference. Maybe this cartoon I made, this fictional poster of “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!” had such a wildfire effect because it is finally time for Muslims and non-Muslims to understand one another more.
I am going back to the drawing table now!
Thanks,
Molly