U.N. passes "defamation of religion" resolution calling it "human rights violation"

Originally Posted by izanagi

Also, what would constitute defamation of religion? For example, would it be taken to mean even perhaps pointing out some inconsistencies in facts of a religion(from a typical atheist point of view), can be considered as defamation?

I hope you realize that evangelizing against religion is as antagonizing as evangelizing for it. Two way street, and all that. Also there are strong parallels between proclaiming your atheism and proclaiming your faith. They are both distasteful.

Of course, UN resolutions are about as effective as New Year's resolutions, so honestly, what does it matter? It's not like all the governments involved in drafting this thing actually promote free speech to begin with.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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would it be taken to mean even perhaps pointing out some inconsistencies in facts of a religion(from a typical atheist point of view), can be considered as defamation?

Sorry if I interpreted this to be something other than proclaiming your atheism, because, you know, self-described atheists treating religious beliefs with dismissive contempt based on a pseudo-intellectual, uneducated but analytic perspective does not in the least describe a normative behavior.

So yeah, Araes got it right. Believe whatever you want, but once you start (ever so respectfully I'm sure) "pointing out some inconsistencies in facts (from a typical atheist point of view," you become a recruiter for the anti-god, and it gets really old.

There's nowhere I can't reach.