Tuesday, September 11, 2007

LOL - does anyone else find the recent religion spat on facebook hilarious?

From the description of the facebook group "F**k Islam":
The Quran contains many lies and threats. Islam is false, no god exists, and someone should say that loud and clear. Heaven and hell are fables, prayer is a waste of time, and angels and jinn are obviously mythology.
This is not a group against Muslims. They have it bad enough. If you doubt that go to Palestine. If you hate Muslims or are here to harrass them or promote your religion, go away. Muslims can be and usually are peaceful and respectful.
The best thing for the whole world is a rejection of all religions and a renewed discovery of the love for humanity and naturalism.
Fuck Christianity and Judaism as well. These religions are just as false and have a variety of disadvantages. There are other groups devoted to each of these false ideologies. Here is one devoted to religion in general: http://unm.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2225572075
and here is one for Christianity: http://unm.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5857745671.
True true. I'm not endorsing the group, because I know nothing about it more than what I just read. And while using "f**k" isn't exactly mature, the controversy this group has generated is funny. There is of course a huge response group, "petiton: if "f**k Islam" is not shut down..we r quitting facebook," with misguided ideas about the "respect" due to any idea:
if the group "f**k Islam" and all similar disrespectful groups of religion are not shut down before the end of september..we are all goin to close our facebook accounts..and thats the least we can do to show our respect to religion and our disagreement of such humilating and ignorant groups. [sic!]
Is it just me, but isn't any point made in "internet grammar" immediately invalidated?
You only need to respect a false (or anyway completely untestable) idea as much as you would my strongly-held contention that everyone bow down and sacrifice themselves before the omniscient Lord of Nutella. We need to break down the illusion that it is wrong to argue against religious ideas. The anti-Islam group is just exercising free speech, which might not be said about the threatening anti-anti-Islam groups out there. Game on!

[p.s. - I caught on to this controversy by stumbling on this new york times story]

1 Comments:

Yao said...

I think that your comments may be invalidated because you're on facebook often enough to notice this "controversy." Heh.

1:57 PM  

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