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Expensive Beliefs

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. – Ambrose Peirce
Posted: February 14th, 2011 | By Bruce Gorton


Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri is a man beloved. For Valentine’s Day he has students rallying to give him flowers and cards, he is well beloved in Pakistan.

He murdered a man for daring to argue that nobody has the right to not be offended. He isn’t loved in spite of this, he is loved because he is a murdering coward.

Qadri is the true face of the anti-secularist movement – the idea that because you are religiously offended, you have the right to kill people.

Or alternatively kill the people who say you do not have a right to never be offended.

When we talk about secularism, to some extent we are talking about living in a society free of the cowardice of Qadri’s supporters.

You have the right to your religious beliefs – I have the right to disagree with them.

 
 


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