BLASPHEMY!

Sheikh Yur Buotty: Voo I still own the deed to your great grandfather

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Anonymous said...

Well Claus, You fit the bill. Moral relativism to me sounds like you. A guy with a nic name that makes a bigoted slur towards a sect of religion. But you won't address that will you. You haven't addressed it thus far in the blog, so I don't see you having the manhood to stand up and address it now. You call Voo a jackass for his comment, but yet your name speaks volumes because it IS your comment. How typical for a lefty. Now run off and hide like you always do. You've lost the argument before it even began.

PS: To the other readers: It's not as if Claus isn't aware of the comments about his name in this post or the others. His email is automatically updated from eblogger with each and every comment. But yet he remains silent about the issue. Why? Seems like now would be a good time to debate the issue and give his explaination.

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This has never made any sense to me. My nic expresses my personal beliefs. You don't have a right to not be offended. You have to accept other people's expression of their beliefs. The person who made the comment about Voo's ancestor also has a right to make his statement.

In a society where people are allowed to express any idea openly, the only way we have to respond, or rather, the only correct way, is to express our disgust and disapproval. I didn't post that comment in an effort to have it censored or expunged. I posted it to hold it up to ridicule and disdain as the noxious, toxic bile that it was.

You also have the right, as you have been, to hold my nic up to public scrutiny. I think you'll find, however, that most people are more troubled, and more sickened, by the kind of racism Sheikh Yur Buotty expressed, than by my nickname.

Actually, the two issues seem to form an inverse pattern. For hundreds of years, if not more, society tolerated and even endorsed racist attitudes, ideas, and behaviors. It is only now that such ideas are disapproved of. Inversely, for thousands of years, organized religions prohibited any expression of blasphemy, and punished those expressions with prison, torture, and death. The justification for those punishments actually is similar to your argument, that a blasphemer insults the believer, and god, by his words. In modern times, we have evolved to a point where we allow people the freedom of thought to express blasphemous ideas openly without fear.

So, your argument is fairly absurd. My expression of blasphemy is perfectly reasonable and acceptable, and you have no recourse but try and fan the flames of disapproval. On the other hand, one who expresses the kind of virulent racist nastiness that Sheikh did, will find almost every hand of man turned against him, and all I need do is simply accurately report what he wrote.

Now, are you done with your pitiful hand-wringing over this issue? Because it bores me.

JC