tiassa:
I believe the new term mangled in sciforums is "Intellectual dishonesty" or the advocacy of an argument known to be false.
IOW, when we piss on Christ its freedom of expression, when you spit on him, its intolerance
So let me see if we have this straight, pissing on a $2 statue of Christ that you bought at the store, and own (as in it's your person item) and presenting that as art to some coked up New York socialites is equivalent to sneaking into a Catholic church for the express purpose of finding "illegals" and outing them to the Muslims public. And doing this just after some Christian churches were burned to the ground for using the Arabic word for god - these two events are, in your mind, equivalent?
And wiping your arse with pages from the Qur'an - this is OK with you as well? I mean,
it's just paper and ink. Right?
See, because I agree that if you own a statue of Chris, you have the right to piss on it. You have the right to wipe your arse with a bible, the Qur'an, an American flag or the constitution of the US. If you have a wafer, you can photograph yourself spitting it out and laughing about how irrational Catholics are. Post that up to Youtube if you feel like it.
Now, things that are in the public, such as the Kaaba, well, you don't own that, so you aren't allowed to shit on it. Or burning down someone's church.
Now, this where the fine line is, what about walking into a public church, pretending you're a Catholic? That's the question here isn't it? Is this legal? Well, seems like it. And at least Scifes isn't pussyfooting around. It's difficult and even illegal for a Muslim to convert to Christianity. Ex-Muslims are hunted down and murdered for this crime. This has always been the case. Pressure the non-Muslim. Kill them even - make an example of them. 1400 years of this crap and it's starting to stink.
That's the issue here. Outing illegals.
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I thought this was rather funny, until I realized they were looking for illegal converts - also known as traitors or turn coats (turn yarmukle?) if you will. I wonder? And if they happened to find a group of Jews that dated Muslims? Then what? Were they there to share their joyous stories with their readers or going to turn them over to the Orthodox Gestapo? Reminds me of medieval Europe."
footnote: Maybe make your point a little more obvious.
Because I don't see a problem with pointing out discriminatory laws. Whether it be illegal converts in Malaysia or preventing Africans, Asians or Indians from joining an Orthodox Synagogue
Why?
You seem to think the custom of snorting water up your nose and blowing it out again when you perform Wudu is rational. Not to mention the lifting of your arse in the air as you bow to the West rational to you.
Why is Catholic or any other religious custom less rational to you?
I would be more concerned with the fact that it is urine and thus, unsanitary.
Well, you see Bells, turning to pray towards the Scientology building is a... is a ... is a.... I know! it's a form of yoga - not irrational at all to pray to Holiwood!. Oh, and stepping out of the Scientology-loo left foot first like Ron Hubbard (pbuh) did, this isn't irrational either, it's to prevent you from falling backwards and hitting your head if you happen to have a heart attack just at that moment.... you're for some inexplicable, yet very very rational reason, fall forward....
AKA: Are you really attempting to have a rational discussion about THOSE sorts of things??? You did see the 5 pages of
layers of waves splashing about discussion and why that turn of phrase is a deep philosophical insight proving the existence of Allah and the "miraculousness" of the Qur'an.
What if they start sending covert operatives into Catholic services in the hopes of publicly "outing" illegal converts?
What if the state makes it illegal to convert to your religion in the first place?
The goal of this sting operation was the public shaming and legal prosecution of people for practicing the "wrong" religion. Is that not something that you consider offensive?
Else why the repeated attempts to minimize the situation to the isolated question of the disposition of a couple of wafers? This also is looking like intellectual dishonesty, in the service of trolling.
To the extent that "you" actually "do it:" yes.
Point made and quite succinct.