Happy Blasphemy Day! Up your god’s arse! (a repost)

Oh god damn it, today’s Blasphemy Day. I was already just reposting stuff today, so here’s one more.

Today is International Blasphemy Day. Atheists everywhere are insulting your invisible deity, whomever he or she might (not) be, in protest of the stripping of rights, in certain countries, to publicly and vocally disbelieve in anything that someone might find offensive. These countries include Canada, in a limited fashion thankfully, but the fact that Canada — one of the most progressive and modern countries in the world — has a blasphemy law is unreal.

Let’s make this perfectly clear. Blasphemy is anything up to and including publicly doubting the existence of a supposedly omnipotent, wrathful and jealous deity. The merest fact that such a deity would be well capable of punishing doubters (and in every religion’s foundational texts, does so!), obviates the need for a blasphemy law as not only redundant, but usurping your deity’s divine right to exact vengeance for slights against him.

And we’re not protesting just because it’s a ludicrous and gross violation of human rights. We’re also protesting because some people have been attacked, or had to go into hiding, because they once drew a picture of a prophet who may or may not actually care about drawings.

Interestingly, in Canada, there’s a proviso that, according to Wikipedia, ‘is not an offence against this section to express in good faith and in decent language, or to attempt to establish by arguments used in good faith and conveyed in decent language, any opinion whatever on any religious subject.’ That, coupled with the fact that atheists are demonstrably better informed about religions than the religious, means only that I have to avoid swearing when debating religion in public in order to have a decent defense against a charge of blasphemy.

Fuck that shit, though. As far as I’m concerned, gratuitous swearing is good enough for television, so it’s good enough for me. There is not a shred of fucking evidence for the deity your dumb ass has postulated, and the burden of proof is on you motherfuckers. Anyone that thinks I should be put in jail for writing that sentence can go fuck themselves.

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Happy Blasphemy Day! Up your god’s arse! (a repost)
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3 thoughts on “Happy Blasphemy Day! Up your god’s arse! (a repost)

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    If I say “Lady Gaga sucks”, is it acceptable for one of her fans to kick me? No.

    If I say “the Toronto Maple Laughs suck”, is it acceptable for one of their fans to punch me? No.

    If I say “Stephen Harper is a traitor”, is it acceptable for a conservative to shoot me? No.

    Why does religion receive exemption to committing violence against its critics? Religion is a preference and an opinion, no different than someone’s taste in music, clothes, pop culture, sports or politics. Well…with one exception: Lady Gaga and Stephen Harper actually exist and can be proven and shown. None of the mythical “gods” do nor can they be demonstrated.

    The only respect religion deserves is the right to have it, and religions are already getting that respect. But they don’t want respect – they want reverence, deference and obedience. If their mythical “gods” actually existed, they could get it for themselves, and not need believers to demand it.

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