U.N. body adopts resolution on religious defamation | Reuters
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U.N. body adopts resolution on religious defamation | Reuters
What people view on this!!
Not overly keen, I myself am an atheist but I don't go out of my way to mock religion however I think I should have that right given some of the stuff religion has been responsible for both in the past, present and almost certainly future!
This means if a particular group, lets take a sect of the Jedi religion for an example, decides they are going to force their female members to dress up like princess leia (Jabba's slave) then I would like to be able to mock them for being a bunch of nutters with a warped view of women without being accused of breaching their 'human rights' by defaming their religion.
Kind of breaks the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, especially Article 19.
So much for freedom of speech eh!
It's a contradiction anyway, as most religions state somewhere in their scripture that to defend the faith you must ridicule the non-believers (actually a lot say kill the non-believers but I thought I'd be diplomatic).
The only people I see this ever being used against is atheists; as we have no faith, we can't use it as an excuse to be vile to others.
Religions aren't humans, they're beliefs held by humans, so I don't really see why the human rights council has any business ruling on the matter.
Reading the article - most Western countries seemed to have come out against the (non binding) ruling
Doesn't surprise me - so much fighting over religion in the East, it seems that the UN may be opening a can of worms here, certain countries could use it to their advantage to cite "religion-ism" against those who choose to follow a different faith to that which the state is associated with.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpuffMonkey
Having said that, do the UN really hold that much power? I wonder how close to the truth the scene in Team America is, "don't do that, or the UN will give you a telling off!"