[Vision2020] Another perspective on free speech

[Art Deco]

I do not agree with this perspective of restricting free speech.

Religious dogma and some of the actions they engender including torture,
war, forced conversion, restriction of freedoms and rights, cliterectomy,
etc are extremely harmful to humankind.  Restricting free expression and
the use of various rhetorical devices only serves to protect and promulgate
these harmful beliefs and actions

In the search for truth and humane values, why should religious beliefs be
exempted from analysis, investigation, the the uses of rhetorical devices
used to examine and discuss all other kinds of belief?

It is important to note that unlike many other everyday beliefs like
gravity there is no agreement on any religious truth out of the multitude
of those offered to or forced upon humankind.  Worse yet, there is as of
now unlike gravity, measles, etc, no agreed upon method to cull the true
from the false and meaningless.

It offended many when Galileo asserted that the earth revolved around the
sun, not the converse.  Let the search for truth be open, and if humor,
insults, derision, etc can help in that search, so be it.

The same sort of statements above can be made about political dogma also.

w.



On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Ron Force <rforce2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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