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Related: About this forumConservative Christian Comedian Doesn’t Realize His Critique of Islam Also Applies to His Own Faith
If youve never heard of Steven Crowder, please accept my apologies in advance.
He recently posted a piece on his Louder with Crowder site about the Quran that is simply too funny and sad to pass up. But not funny in the way that Crowder, a former Fox News contributor and conservative comedian, might hope.
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First on their list:
1. It disallows free speech. First Amendment: Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech. Quran:
Allah likes not the uttering of unseemly speech in public, except on the part of one who is being wronged (4:49)
And, free speech expressed in the form of cartoons of Muhammad is a very, very bad idea. Unless you want to you know. Prepare to die.
Turns out, though, that Crowders favorite Holy Book, full of rules dictating the most minute aspects of a persons life (like facial hair trimming and fabric choices) also curtails free speech. And you dont even have to look past the Ten Commandments the Ten Commandments! to find proof:
"You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain."
That, too, is a form of censorship.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/05/10/conservative-christian-comedian-doesnt-realize-his-critique-of-islam-also-applies-to-his-own-faith/
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Conservative Christian Comedian Doesn’t Realize His Critique of Islam Also Applies to His Own Faith (Original Post)
Warren Stupidity
May 2015
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struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)1. And what about not bearing false witness against neighbors?
Now there's an infringement on my free speech rights!
edhopper
(33,587 posts)2. When speech harms
especially monetarily, it is not protected.
Though it isn't censored, it just results in repercussions, like being sued.
Libel and slander and such.
Not sure what your point was.
edhopper
(33,587 posts)3. I think we should respect the idiocy of all religion
and not be bigoted toward one.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)4. I try.
But there is so much idiocy it is difficult to keep up and even more difficult to fairly allocate respect.
edhopper
(33,587 posts)5. Should we respect this Christian asshole
who believes his religion is so much better than Islam?
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)6. I respect his idiocy. It is awesome.
edhopper
(33,587 posts)7. Yes
it takes work to be that clueless, offensives and unfunny at the same time.
Who does he think he is Adam Sandler.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)8. Funny how none of the cancervative comics
actually approach anything humorous. None of them. Dennis Miller is their king, and he's nothing but a whining unfunny asshole.