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United Nations Affirms the Human Right to Blaspheme
by StuartAugust 11th, 2011
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So called ‘blasphemy laws’ are used in Islamic nations to persecute, subjugate and intimidate religious minorities – such as Christians – and so I read with interest about a UN Human Rights Committee statement on freedom of speech, which states:
Laws restricting blasphemy as such are incompatible with universal human rights standards.
Although this will be trumpeted as a triumph for secularists, this would – if adhered to – also set Christians free from the accusation of blasphemy.
Posted by Stuart James
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The freedom of thought and conscience is good.
Part of the problem is how such laws are interpreted. Clearly it is immoral to diss your creator. But making blasphemy a law is fraught with problems, namely false religions condemning true ones.
On an unrelated note, you may find this theology news article of interest?
This is already a freedom much extended in America (just visit YouTube for plenty of blasphemy at work) but if this means something that would help the persecuted church in the middle east, then maybe something good could come from this.
The United Nations is an absolutely useless body of talking-heads anyways.
I’m give more credence to the chatter of an elderly ladies’ knitting circle than what goes on in that blasted organization.