Why ?
Because religion is full of terrible ideas that are terrible for society and need to be refuted.
Because religious people are trying to legislate what I can/can’t do based on their twisted morality they get from an ancient book.
Because there are a bunch of anti-vaxxer nuts who are using religion as a reason to not get vaccinated through some sort of twisted tenet of their myths.
Because there are hundreds or thousands of indigenous children buried around the country because religious people didn’t consider their culture to be worthy of any respect. And they need to be made to pay reparations for that.
I find those reasons, and many more, to be “useful”.
Well you are Mr. Perfect - go tell them !
Everyone is entitled to an opinion on abortion. Mine isn’t worth less because I’m a man. That’s what men have been telling women for centuries about their opinions.
I have. His mother was Jewish, so...
I suppose his ethnicity is part Jewish…. He’s certainly not religious.
My mother was Lutheran. I’m not.
When you turn on the TV do you say to your wife or perhaps houseplant:
"Hey honey I'm about to watch a speech"
Or do you use another word ?
If the latter, what do you call it ?
WTF?
We are not talking about a formal speech like that given by a valedictorian. We’re talking about the legal definition of the word. Do you really not know the difference?
Have you ever heard of a US court ruling called 'Citizens United' ?
How is that of any relevance?
We can call it 'free speech' but that doesn't preclude there from being lots of things about it that are not actually 'free'.
Criticism of religions is absolutely not restricted in any way, so your diatribe on “free speech” is completely irrelevant. Unless you’re arguing in favour of blasphemy laws, then we could discuss whether that would be a good idea or not.
You seem to be confusing what you think people
should talk about with what people are
allowed to talk about.
Those are two completely separate topics.
Your opinion on what Sam Harris should talk about is, frankly, bizarre in my opinion. The clip I posted was him talking about Christianity, debating a Christian. Yet you go on like all he does is make disparaging comments about Islam. Simply not the truth. But even if he did, I think it would be useful, as the tenets in the Islamic religion, like in the bible, are despicable and should be criticized. Unlike with most Christians, there is a serious issue with Muslims taking their holy book more literally.
Burning witches is still a thing in parts of Africa…. It’s straight out of the bible. (Just another in the long line of reasons that religion should be criticized)
https://www.dw.com/en/witch-hunts-a-global-problem-in-the-21st-century/a-54495289