Religion begins with a statement of what is right and what is wrong. It expects compliance from its faithful.
So, how can religion be expected to encourage free speech.
Free speech, therefore, is the product of the "non-believer" or the "believer" that says "well, I don't think religion can stop me doing what I think is right" or the "believer" who believes that he is ready to take a chance and face the consequences.
Free speech is about non-belief. The degrees of free speech we desire is all about where you plot yourself in the graph of degrees of non-belief.
Therefore, in the eyes of undiluted free speech, religion is evil, religion is infidel. Religion is the cause to its threat perception.
Hinduism and Christianity are not magically tolerant religions. The liberal actions taken by the "set of all shades of believers" who have decided to gravitate towards freedom of speech and expression and away from their Books, creates the illusion of being tolerant religions. In the absence of these vast hordes of exceptions, all religions are evil.
QED.
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1 comment:
Atleast from what I know of Hinduism, it is a much more tolerant religion. Can you point any other country other than India, which observes the religious minorities festivals as official holiday? Hinduism gives guidelines to live your life (which is based morality and ethics), which one can opt to follow or not.
Forget religion, for that matter no country (or democracy) has freedom of speech because they have rules.
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