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Pirate Bay Launches Free Speech Blog
Chris Blanc writes "In their ever continuing battle to 'free the Internet', The Pirate Bay has now launched an uncensored blogging service, called Baywords. The service is intended to be a safe haven for bloggers who want to be able to write whatever they want."
I'm going to post on there how pirating is actually stealing.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Some may say you deserve a +Troll modifier. However, I can find no fault with your statements, even though I am sure plenty of followers of both religions would claim otherwise.
You also correctly note, "as they are currently being practiced", since it is Islamic followers that will threaten to kill you (and many actually follow through with that threat) if you tarnish their "religion of peace". It is also Catholic Priests that use their positions of power in their communities to not only directly abuse certain people, but to foster an environment of hate for certain non-believers and non-conformists. I realize that some may vehemently take exception to such statements, but when these religions state their positions as absolutes with the language they use, it cannot be seen as anything other then hurtful and filled with hate for those it aimed towards.
It is also predominantly the men of these religions that use their perverted interpretation of their faith's to abuse their fellow brothers and sisters. Just because they have been making these statements for centuries, while making up a sizable portion of their respective populations, makes it no less hateful of certain groups of people.
So if you are saying that "Hate Speech" is really just unpopular speech, then I wholeheartedly agree. For those that are against censorship, it must be treated as an absolute. Once you stop doing so, it cannot be anything but biased.
LOL. Are you serious? To pray for someone's soul, and to hate them at the same time is not impossible. Praying does not negate the fact that they actively promulgate the views of their religion, which is that certain people are evil and will be tortured in hell for all eternity.
So yeah, I fully agree that Catholics may preach that all the "faggots" are going to Hell, they are evil, they live in Sin, but rid their commentaries of any connotations of hate by SIMPLY praying for their souls afterwards. Riiiggght.
I hope you can understand that when certain religions preach that you are a bad person, that you will be forever in pain and suffering, that it is hurtful and very easily felt as hate by such people. The fact that those same people openly "state" they are praying for you, often provides no sense of relief, but more often a sense of condescension, indifference, and intolerance.
Can you point to some actual examples of atheists being prosecuted for suggesting that Christians or Muslims be tortured?
No, I can't, because atheists generally don't suggest that other get tortured for all eternity. They don't because (1) they don't believe that anybody lives for all eternity, (2) most atheists are either religious or humanists and hence object to torture in any form, whether by divine beings or men, and (3) they know that if they speak out publicly, they risk death threats and arrest.
I suspect that your post is just irrelevant speculation.
Well, then you're living under a rock. Geert Wilders film, for example, has been condemned, literally, as "hate speech" by the UN secretary general (here), and all he did was compile a collection of quotes from the Quran and Muslim leaders.
Here are other examples:
http://www.lutononsunday.com/lutononsunday-news/displayarticle.asp?id=306589
http://www.axcessnews.com/user.php/articles/show/id/12315
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/ap-far-righters-arrested-for-anti-islam-protest
You can find many more if you look around, with free speech by students, bloggers, protesters, and others being suppressed for criticizing religions or saying things that "offend" people of one or the other religion.
Uh, bullshit.
Go to any university. Provide something more substantial than a bland assertion. I live in Springfield Missouri, which is right in the middle of the bible belt. About a week and a half ago, our local sheriff (Jack Merritt) made the following statement in reference to somebody on American Idol signing the national anthem:
"The way I hear Jason sing the national anthem makes you want to go out and kill a communist."
And he said this to a local newspaper reporter. Now, terrible grammar aside, this is a horrible comment for a law enforcer to make, and it could certainly strike fear into local communists.