Aclaro, porque este post de Pat Condell va directo al corazón de lo que dicen varios (incluso acá en este foro): que no se puede faltar el respeto a la religión.
INSULTING RELIGION
By Pat Condell
Okay, this is a quick video for those, mainly, Christians and Muslims who keep telling me, for reasons I can never quite fathom, that I have no right to insult their religion. I don't know who made up that rule (and nobody was looking) but apparently somebody did. So let me give you my perspective on it now, if I may.
I give your religion as much respect as your religion gives me. There's nothing complicated about it and I have every right to insult a religion that goes out of its way to insult, to judge and to condemn me as an inadequate human being: which your religion does with self-righteous gusto. When it comes to insults, your religion started this - not me. If your religion kept its big mouth shut, so would I. But given that it doesn't and given the enormous harm that your religion has done in this world, I'd say that I have not only a right but a duty to insult it: as does every rational thinking person on this planet. In fact, I think it should be compulsory for everyone to insult your religion every day. No . . . not every day . . . five times every day. Oh what the hell. Ten times. One for each commandment. And even that wouldn't be enough. Because the moment that your religion claims any kind of jurisdiction over my experience, you insult me on a level that you can't even begin to comprehend. Even if your beliefs had substance, the arrogance of that would be insult enough. But the fact that they have no substance and are merely a transparent raft of delusions and lies, magnifies the insult enormously. And for this reason, not only do I have a perfect right to insult your religion, I have a right to insult YOU personally the moment I have to hear about your poxy religion.
The moment you offer me any kind of scripture-based opinion about what I should believe or the values I should hold or especially the morals I should exhibit, then you can expect to be graphically and comprehensively insulted for your trouble and I sincerely hope they hurt your feelings, harms your personal well-being and damages your self-image to the extent that you have to go and lie down for ten minutes before you can even pray.
If I'm not allowed to express my sincerely held belief that your religion is a crock of dangerous evil, dehumanizing, superstitious garbage, then it seems to me that I don't have religious freedom but you do. Because I can assure you that I hold that view with a passion and a solemn intensity that can match anything that you've got to offer. It is, for me, a core defining belief and a pillar of my whole reality: an absolutely unshakeable, fundamental conviction that resonates to every fiber of my being that your religion is, in fact, a crock of dangerous, evil, dehumanizing, superstitious garbage that pollutes and degrades the world I have to live in and I'm not happy about it. And I feel morally obliged . . . nay, compelled, to make this known loudly and often, regardless of who claims to be offended, because not to do so would violate everything I am and everything I believe in. I wouldn't be able to live with myself. I'd feel like a liar and a coward and, well, something of a moral cockroach. And that would weigh very heavily on my conscience.
I'm sure you understand.
Peace.
cagamos...ahora se vienen toda la sarta de ofendidos, indignadoas, espantados, resentidos , heridos ,etct etc , a comentar en contra de este tipo que dice verdades irefutables.
ReplyDeleteLa verdad que habla como un idiota. Seguramente que está hablando del cristianismo.
ReplyDeleteRecuerdo un artículo en La Nación de un cura villero que juzgaba a la clase media como individualista. Yo le respondí que una mina clasemediera que sale a trabajar y le paga a una mucama un sueldo es individualista, sí, y al mismo tiempo le da la oportunidad a esa villera de tener un trabajo y ser individualista también. Que un empresario que busca su beneficio en su empresa y para ello contrata a sus empleados villeros es individualista y les permite ser individualistas a sus empleados también. Qué si a él le da gusto hacer obra en la villa está siendo individualista tambien y que no venga a dar lecciones de moral a los demás. (En otras palabras, que se metiera el pecado, deuda o culpa original por dónde mejor le cupiese).
ReplyDeleteNunca entenderán que lo que yo critico no es la falta de respeto hacia la religión sino la falta de respeto que Uds. tienen con los que tienen convicciones religiosas. Pero es al ñudo y, por lo tanto, ya ni me molesto.
ReplyDeleteEnmascarado, pero ambos son indivisibles, la "religion" solo existe dentro de la mente de los que tienen convicciones religiosas. De hecho, cuando ese grupo de gente tiende a cero, la religion se convierte en un mito.
ReplyDeleteNo es justo decir (por mas que sé que tenes buena intencion) que "respete tu creencia" porque esa misma creencia mato millones, y hoy lo haria de no ser porque no tiene mas el poder. Es decir: si vos realmente sos catolico y crees todo lo que el catolicismo dice, crees que yo me voy a ir al infierno por mi apostasia: la religion por necesidad adopta opiniones sobre "el otro". Por lo tanto, decir "yo creo en lo mio y dejenme tranquilo" no creo que aplique en este caso.
Seria bueno que la religion se convirtiera realmente en un instrumento del bien, pero dada su inmutabilidad es practicamente imposible. La excepcion quizas es el anglicanismo, que ya no tiene infierno, suben sacerdotes gays y mujeres... es decir, una religion aggiornada. Pero esta perdiendo fieles... saca tus conclusiones.
Sólo diré que creo que estos posts son inconducentes y que en este momento del país y del mundo, debemos sintonizarnos con las afinidades en vez de ir deliberadamente a peinar el gato a contrapelo. Pero acá cada uno es dueño, y Luis es mas dueño que todos nosotros.
ReplyDeleteEs todo lo que voy a decir, y no vuelvo a tocar este post ni con un palo de 5 metros.
Ok Mike@, tomo el punto. :)
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