Author Topic: How Religious Fundamentalism Hijacks the Brain  (Read 400 times)

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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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Re: How Religious Fundamentalism Hijacks the Brain
« Reply #30 on: September 17, 2021, 01:57:12 pm »
As such, a Jewish podcaster talking about Islam to a captive, American right wing audience is not something I find useful.

If you find someone's speech not useful you're free to ignore it, condemn it, or whatever you want.  Others are free to listen, and consider the ideas.  The point is these ideas are allowed to be expressed and can't be shut down by force via government because we have legal rights to thought, belief, expression etc.

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Luther had authority to start a dialogue among adherents about the tenets of their faith.  The medium, the time, and the structure of interchange are all very different so the analogy fails.

Luther was dragged in front of court and then excommunicated.  His speech was banned.  Socrates was put to death by the state because his ideas were "corrupting the youth".  Apostates are put to death in certain Muslim countries.  Luckily in the West we have free speech precisely because these things used to happen when we were ruled by the whims of monarchs.  In the US you can say basically anything you want as long as you don't threaten violence, which is the way it should be.

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People need to stop equating broadcasting and electronic media with speech.  They are not the same thing, and this is something we knew in the 20th century but have forgotten.

The courts luckily say you're wrong.  The medium of communication is irrelevant regarding speech.  Are you going to want to ban books next?

I think your ideas are more dangerous than anything Sam Harris has ever said, yet you're free to say them.
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