Comments on: Getting blasphemous before the UN, United States declare it a “misused freedom”

By: RS Janes

RS Janes — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:27:36 +0000

The butt of the joke often doesn’t find it funny, especially if it doesn’t increase the amount of money to be collected on the dead bones of the founder or founders.

As to Islam, it should be noted that The Prophet who got the whole Muslim thing running married a Jewish woman and worked for her in her spice business. Mohammad may have been an example of the Socrates quote, “If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” And if you get a really bad wife, you start a religion.

By: stillwaters

stillwaters — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:49:58 +0000

That’s the problem with religion. They can’t take a joke.

By: dgun

dgun — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:53:11 +0000

I read about this a while back. Although I don’t agree with the paragraph in question, if most countries of the world (read, not us) implemented the non-binding resolution, it would have an overall positive impact on world-wide freedom of expression.

And I’m sure the paragraph made it into the non-binding resolution as a compromise to get support for the resolution. I wonder how much ‘holocaust denying’ laws of Europe influenced the language of the resolution? But considering that even binding resolutions from the UN are often vain gestures and fool’s errands, I’m not sure how wise it was politically to back a non-binding resolution that included such language.

By: The Big Blue Frog

The Big Blue Frog — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:01:27 +0000

“Blasphemy is a victimless crime.”

By: William K. Wolfrum

William K. Wolfrum — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:11:27 +0000

Off-topic, but I recently had someone tell me a story about taking acid at the beach then having a convo with someone and then laughing non-stop for 15 minutes. When the laughing stopped, her trip ended and she went home lol.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:43:42 +0000

Don’t forget the guy Ben Folds sang about. The guy was tripping on acid at a party, and climbed a tree, and when he came down in the morning, he was a born-again Christian. True story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8gryqG790A&feature=player_embedded

There’s also a street preacher named “Jed” who travels Arizona and New Mexico. He found Jesus in a similar way, and wants to get his message to the college kids that they can’t find Jesus on acid. Even though Jed did.