Archive for March, 2008
Artist Of The Month - March 2008
Yellowcard
Albums
Paper Walls
Lights And Sounds
View From Heaven
Only One
Empty Apartment
One For The Kids
Ocean Avenue
The Underdog EP
Blasphemy Laws
After more than four hundred years and approximately four cases, the blasphemy laws in England and Wales are set to be repealed. You would have thought that this would fly through any sort of process and be sorted out during half time of a football game or something. However this is not so.
Lady O’Cathain maintained that abolition of blasphemy would unleash a torrent of abuse towards Christians. Clearly it’s important to understand that Lady O’Cathain is unable to understand who the blasphemy laws were supposed to protect and also to understand that in order to not understand the first point a functioning IQ of under 90 must be held by the person in question. So to help out a bit, Lady O’Cathain, the blasphemy laws were meant to protect, specifically, the church of England’s god. Abusing Christians isn’t blasphemy and in most cases is probably quite amusing.
A few bishops have commented that they are not opposed to the repeal but the timing isn’t good for the church. Of course it isn’t. Now is the exact wrong time for this to happen to the church. You have to feel for them, having to be on a level pegging with everything else, they’re just not used to it.
But what is most disappointing is Lord Elton’s response to Lord Elystan-Morgan who is a (seemingly at least) Christian Judge.
I was not going to take part until the noble Lord, Lord Elystan-Morgan, rose and trailed the name of Dawkins and The God Delusion. I recommend that he reads a better and more recent book, The Dawkins Delusion?, which I am glad to see he has in his hand.
Another idiot who, rather than being too stupid to understand that the blasphemy laws never protected Christians, is too stupid to understand that God existing has nothing to do with these laws being repealed. It’s to do with free speech. And also that the arguments used in The Dawkins Delusion? are remarkably bad and don’t even address the arguments put forward in The God Delusion.
To sum up, good news that the laws have been repealed, victory for free speech and all that. However bad news that we need the approval of (some, not all) close-minded idiots who can’t make a decision without having to bring all of their prejudice to the table. Final words, go free speech!
Slight update, I have been skimming through the debate (I was bored okay?) and it is far worse than I thought. There are people, in the House of Lords at least, who think that somehow that repealing the blasphemy laws would be discriminating against Christians. You cannot overestimate how brain-dead someone has to be to think that not giving one set of beliefs privileges that other beliefs don’t have is discrimination?!
Never before has the chart been so appropriate.
Hugh
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