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All Hail The Flying Spaghetti Monster.....

15:00, 09 Apr 2007

.....Lover of Jesus, Spit Roaster of Allah, Vexer of Buddha, Executer of Emperors, Silencer of Messangers!

I have had it.

I am a deeply spiritual person, and i believe that faith is very important to life, but i cannot condone and despise the idea that critisism of any idea religious or otherwise is wrong.

Yes i do not like islam as a way of running my life and i think it shouldn't run other peoples lives, i can think of many points of contention with it, however i equally feel that christianity has many of these problems, but has advancecd in its methods in the past 500 years. If you look at Iran it is socially similar to a 15th-16th century renisance level christian country, which to be honest were not centres of what we would call enlightenment in the 21st century. There are right wing christians who would quite happily drag us back to the dark ages in the name of a god, who is drenched in the blood of 6000 years of conflict...

I will not try to damage someone's faith provided they do not try to force it on me, but when criticism of a religion is considered illegal or wrong, and people are expected to make an appology i don't react well.

The mohamed cartoons for the most part were fairly lacking in decent humor, but they still should have been published, if you can't grow up and accept a joke, then don't demand to be part of a society that considers self relfecting humor funny...maybe islam needs its "Life of Brian"...

I should point out that while i consider humor and criticism on the part of religion perfectly acceptible, it is because they are a matter of choice...sexuality, race, birthplace, gender or anything that is not a choice should be protected from critical speech or humor. (also sexuality as a choice should include both pansexuality and bisexuality as valid states of sexuality).

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