"Pope Francis 1st questioned whether free speech includes pornographic blasphemy
..Alongside such sensible but unsurprising remarks."
No Kevin, these are not sensible remarks and I can help you here.
Your belief in a deity, no matter how important or true it feels to you, does not mean it gives you a special exception to supress opinions that hurt your feelings. Even if you call it pornographic. Your content has been called worse than that, and I'm certain that you would not agree that simply hating your work with a passion is any justification for censoring you.
It's pretty shocking that someone who has had to fight censorship as much as anyone over the last 15-18 years, would use special pleading and actually want to and praise censorship of viewpoints because they go against your particular brand of mysticism.
Watching you stand up for the ideals of freedom of thought EXCEPT when (gasp) only to see that apparently you need to step in so that the unfathomably powerful creator doesn't get offended by mortals is a public display of cognitive dissonance.
You certainly make it hard to continue to support you when you do not actually support freedom of speech. Because, if you do not support all speech you do not support freedom of speech.
Its a truism from Anthropology 101 that every culture has sacred symbols and is going to protect them from blasphemous attack. Destroy that, and you've destroyed the culture.
You say: " if you do not support all speech you do not support freedom of speech." So you support incitement, defamation, true threats, obscenity, criminal conspiracy, and pornography, as well as blasphemy? Sounds crazy to me.
It's too difficult to have a discussion about the "above topic" because of the degree of self-censorship. I am married to a Jewish man, and live in Jewish community. My husband and I have fought for years about Jewish privilege. The problem really is that Jewish people don't recognize that they are the ones running the show, that they are in the rulership clique. It's like high school when the popular clique was blind to those outside of it. If you are in it, you don't see it. I have a theory that if only the regular Jews could wake up then everything would change, but they won't and they can't seem to be able to. Like with the vaccine. Jews are 85% vaccinated, the most vaccinated ethnic group of all. They are also super hostile to the unvaccinated. It was Jewish Congressman Waxman who wrote into law the 1986 vaccine act that now plagues us. Vaccine mandates are Jewish from start to finish. It's almost like a first commandment to being Jewish--get vaccinated or forget going to any Jewish event. This may end badly, though, if the vaccine is really as toxic as some think. Then maybe the Jewish clique will falter, and a lot of other things will become obvious to them.
Very interesting discussion. More please!
"Pope Francis 1st questioned whether free speech includes pornographic blasphemy
..Alongside such sensible but unsurprising remarks."
No Kevin, these are not sensible remarks and I can help you here.
Your belief in a deity, no matter how important or true it feels to you, does not mean it gives you a special exception to supress opinions that hurt your feelings. Even if you call it pornographic. Your content has been called worse than that, and I'm certain that you would not agree that simply hating your work with a passion is any justification for censoring you.
It's pretty shocking that someone who has had to fight censorship as much as anyone over the last 15-18 years, would use special pleading and actually want to and praise censorship of viewpoints because they go against your particular brand of mysticism.
Watching you stand up for the ideals of freedom of thought EXCEPT when (gasp) only to see that apparently you need to step in so that the unfathomably powerful creator doesn't get offended by mortals is a public display of cognitive dissonance.
You certainly make it hard to continue to support you when you do not actually support freedom of speech. Because, if you do not support all speech you do not support freedom of speech.
Its a truism from Anthropology 101 that every culture has sacred symbols and is going to protect them from blasphemous attack. Destroy that, and you've destroyed the culture.
You say: " if you do not support all speech you do not support freedom of speech." So you support incitement, defamation, true threats, obscenity, criminal conspiracy, and pornography, as well as blasphemy? Sounds crazy to me.
It's too difficult to have a discussion about the "above topic" because of the degree of self-censorship. I am married to a Jewish man, and live in Jewish community. My husband and I have fought for years about Jewish privilege. The problem really is that Jewish people don't recognize that they are the ones running the show, that they are in the rulership clique. It's like high school when the popular clique was blind to those outside of it. If you are in it, you don't see it. I have a theory that if only the regular Jews could wake up then everything would change, but they won't and they can't seem to be able to. Like with the vaccine. Jews are 85% vaccinated, the most vaccinated ethnic group of all. They are also super hostile to the unvaccinated. It was Jewish Congressman Waxman who wrote into law the 1986 vaccine act that now plagues us. Vaccine mandates are Jewish from start to finish. It's almost like a first commandment to being Jewish--get vaccinated or forget going to any Jewish event. This may end badly, though, if the vaccine is really as toxic as some think. Then maybe the Jewish clique will falter, and a lot of other things will become obvious to them.
I agree that some of these things will change when a critical mass of ordinary Jewish folks wake up. I've heard that Guyenot's From Yahweh to Zion has awakened some Jewish readers. https://www.amazon.com/Yahweh-Zion-Jealous-Promised-Civilizations/dp/0996143041/ref=sr_1_1