International Blasphemy Day
Today is International Blasphemy Day. September 30th is the anniversary of the original publishing of the Danish cartoons in 2005 depicting the prophet Muhammed. This led to orchestrated outrage: at least 135 people were killed in the subsequent violent protests, and death threats were made against the cartoonists and their editor.
In this orgy of lies, hate and violence, who did the Pope and the archbishop of Canterbury rush to condemn? The cartoonists, of course! Because one thing these faith-heads have in common is that they dare not allow free thought to question their indefensible pile of absurdity. The idea behind blasphemy is that certain ideas are sacrosanct and off-limits to critical scrutiny. A wall of obligated “respect” has been built around their silly ideas of talking snakes, celestial virgins, personal deities, spiritual realms and bronze-age dogma.
It’s time to break that wall of immunity down, brick by brick. You want to believe an illiterate goatherd with a taste for blood and prepubescent girls is divine and must be worshipped? Fine – feel free. But don’t expect me not to mock this absurdity. You want to believe a tasteless cracker is the actual flesh of your personal voice in your head? Sure. Why not? I respect your right to do that, just like I respect your right to stick needles through your eyelids. But in either case, don’t expect me not to ridicule your sorry ass.
To mark the day, here is a video from the hilarious Louis CK. I don’t know if it’s blasphemous, but it is very funny.
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