Comments on: Is this us in a few years? http://atheists.org/blog/2006/10/30/is_this_us_in_a_few_years A Blog of Atheist Thought Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:40:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Zac Hunter http://atheists.org/blog/2006/10/30/is_this_us_in_a_few_years/comment-page-1#comment-46805 Zac Hunter Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-46805 To whom it may concern:<br /> <br /> I am writing this letter today to voice my support for the Romanian Humanists in their effort to fight legislation that would ban or limit criticism of certain religions. In the modern world, such an act can only be seen as barbaric and primitive. The freedom to speak an opinion is equivalent indeed as the freedom to hold an opinion. Thankfully, as yet, no nation has ever legislated against a 'thought crime' but to deny the basic freedom of expression, however distasteful it may be, is hardly different from barring an individual from holding such a dissenting opinion. This form of psychological and social domination via the limitation of free expression is always the first step towards totalitarianism; something I am quite sure Europeans of any stripe would hesitate to see repeated in history.<br /> <br /> With Regards,<br /> Zac Hunter To whom it may concern:

I am writing this letter today to voice my support for the Romanian Humanists in their effort to fight legislation that would ban or limit criticism of certain religions. In the modern world, such an act can only be seen as barbaric and primitive. The freedom to speak an opinion is equivalent indeed as the freedom to hold an opinion. Thankfully, as yet, no nation has ever legislated against a ‘thought crime’ but to deny the basic freedom of expression, however distasteful it may be, is hardly different from barring an individual from holding such a dissenting opinion. This form of psychological and social domination via the limitation of free expression is always the first step towards totalitarianism; something I am quite sure Europeans of any stripe would hesitate to see repeated in history.

With Regards,
Zac Hunter

]]> By: flanonblvr http://atheists.org/blog/2006/10/30/is_this_us_in_a_few_years/comment-page-1#comment-46814 flanonblvr Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-46814 hey we may have found a place for the disrupters (jcc and phreedm) to live happily ever after. hey we may have found a place for the disrupters (jcc and phreedm) to live happily ever after.

]]> By: Deadly Doomham http://atheists.org/blog/2006/10/30/is_this_us_in_a_few_years/comment-page-1#comment-46816 Deadly Doomham Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-46816 Imagine the world if nobody was allowed to speak out against idiotic ideas!<br /> <br /> My atheism hasbeen assaulted almost daily since kindergarten; the only difference is that Science and Reason can easily hold their own against morons armed with superstition. Imagine the world if nobody was allowed to speak out against idiotic ideas!

My atheism hasbeen assaulted almost daily since kindergarten; the only difference is that Science and Reason can easily hold their own against morons armed with superstition.

]]> By: pixel http://atheists.org/blog/2006/10/30/is_this_us_in_a_few_years/comment-page-1#comment-46818 pixel Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-46818 Wow! Scary. I think there are some laws like this in place in the UK. (Alex, can you confirm?) I remember hearing about it this summer when I was over there.<br /> <br /> To paraphrase Robert Heinlein: "The price of peace <i>(and freedom)</i> is eternal vigilance." Wow! Scary. I think there are some laws like this in place in the UK. (Alex, can you confirm?) I remember hearing about it this summer when I was over there.

To paraphrase Robert Heinlein: “The price of peace (and freedom) is eternal vigilance.”

]]> By: brodie http://atheists.org/blog/2006/10/30/is_this_us_in_a_few_years/comment-page-1#comment-46820 brodie Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-46820 This sounds like something Dobson and the like would like to do here. Let's hope this kind of lunacy doesn't spread.<br /> <br /> Now is this against criticism of all religions or just the one the politicians belong to? Cause I can't see the different religions not criticizing each other. This sounds like something Dobson and the like would like to do here. Let’s hope this kind of lunacy doesn’t spread.

Now is this against criticism of all religions or just the one the politicians belong to? Cause I can’t see the different religions not criticizing each other.

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