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Indian Man Charged With Blasphemy For Exposing "Miracle"
bhagwad writes "When a statue in Mumbai began to miraculously drip tears, huge crowds began to gather, pray, and collect the water in vials. Sanal Edamaruku has exposed such bogus miracles before, and when he was called in, his investigations showed that it was nothing more than a nearby drainage. The entire investigation was caught on tape. The priests were outraged and demanded an apology. When he refused, a case of 'blasphemy' was registered at the police station and they now want to have him arrested." In related news, today Kuwait's parliament "passed amendments to the Gulf state's penal code stipulating the death penalty for those who curse God, Islam's Prophet Mohammed or his wives." However, they made no change to the penalty for playing a joke national anthem at a sporting event.
Why are there so many dumb peopel?
I don't believe any kind of blasphemy laws belong in the 21st century, but seriously...
seriously...
These people worship cows and statues with elephant heads and statues of effeminate guys with six arms
It's not a serious religion
If you are forced to take something like this seriously, and treat it like a cultural element for grown ups. No wonder people in that part of the world are so angry and uptight all of the time. Jeez.
The current crop of atheists is indeed loud, and particularly obnoxious. Maybe they're the ones to blame for the rise in religionism?
I mean, when I see the sheer seething stupidity right here on Slashdot whenever religion comes up, I'm almost tempted to join a monastery.
In the Seventies we had 'Humanists'; they surely were a whole lot nicer than the current crop of idiots.
Mart
"I know I will be modded down for this": where's the option '-1, Asking for it'?