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Pope Francis on Freedom of Speech: 'One Cannot Make Fun of Faith'
Pope Francis suggested there are limits to freedom of expression, saying in response to the Charlie Hebdo terror attack that "one cannot make fun of faith" and that anyone who throws insults can expect a "punch".
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Hmm, it's an interesting statement.
I personally won't engage in making fun of people for what they believe when it comes to silly ideas and harmless thoughts, BUT some religions are simply evil and need to be stopped at all costs by making the people that believe in this stuff realize how bad it really is. How the hell do you not make fun of a religion where it's cult-like believers accept such horrid violence and murder as normal behavior to those that have different beliefs? Its insane to sit there quietly while a bunch of religious bullies force feed their religion onto other people and murder them if they can't convert...
Honestly, the world would be a better place if adults stopped taking orders from imaginary "friends".
Here's my take on it: it's not so much about Islam - the Bible has plenty of murderous messages as well as many wars and atrocities have been waged and carried out in the name of Christianity - as it's about extremists, radicals in any group or religion and the emphasis that these extremists put on the violent parts of any ideology. That makes them dangerous IMO, not the actual religion. And you can't control that, there will always be people that will decide to kill in the name of. By the way, I'm not sure if people know this but one officer executed in the Charlie Hebdo attack was muslim. So these extremists don't even differentiate between muslims or people with other religious beliefs, all they care is domination.
Exactly, I'm definitely not singling out one religion over another. But I do believe that if a religion is dangerous and drives people to commit horrible crimes it should be made fun of, if only to get people to wake up and see how ridiculous it really is.
The chances of me doing what the pope wants are...Zero. He should be ashamed of himself,but of course,he's not. And the more they expect the world to cow tow down to them and their imaginary friend,the more the world will resist.
"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." -Steven Weinberg
ALL religion is deserving of ridicule as far as I am concerned.