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Blasphemy Contest! Enter Now!
The Center for Inquiry and Council for Secular Humanism have announced a Blasphemy Contest in celebration of Blasphemy Day, September 30. You could win T-shirts with your winning blasphemous phrase!
Some governments and institutions—and even some individuals—want to keep certain topics off limits. This is especially true with religion. In many places, discussions and questions about religion are discouraged, even punished. But how can we come to our own conclusions about religion if we can’t freely examine and discuss it?
To encourage free expression and to celebrate Blasphemy Day 2009 (September 30),
CFI and its sister organization, the Council for Secular Humanism, are sponsoring a
Blasphemy Contest.Blasphemy: n. the act of denying or scoffing at God or God’s alleged attributes.
To enter, all you have to do is create a phrase, poem, or statement that would be or would have been considered blasphemous. Entries may take any form (haiku anyone?), but must be 20 words or less. The top 5 winners will receive CFI t-shirts with their submission printed on the shirt. In addition to the shirt, the first place winner will also receive a mug imprinted with the winning phrase, recognition in Free Inquiry magazine, general publicity, and, naturally, eternal damnation.
Submit entries to blasphemycontest@centerforinquiry.net. Details and contest rules may be found on the Campaign for Free Expression website.
Be sure to check out the Blasphemy Day page on Facebook.
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Let me preface this by declaring that I am not an atheist, though every organized religion rejects my personal conception of a “supreme being”. It seems to me that blasphemy can only apply to someone who believes in gods and religions. If one is of the opinion that gods do not exist, then from their point of view, it cannot be blasphemy. The concept of blasphemy protects superstitious people from having to entertain the idea that others do not share their superstition. Superstitious belief only happens between the ears of a believer, it is not representative of any fundamental reality, no matter how much any superstitious person declares that it does. The danger of superstition comes when superstitious people attempt to implement actions in the real world, through violence and control. I have my own superstitions, beliefs that are mine, they are personal and they happen in my head and help me to deal with my existence. It is not my right to tell anyone that my belief is better than theirs, nor is it anyone else’s right to to tell me their belief is better than mine. However, should we wish to enter into discourse and examine our beliefs against each other, there should be no inhibition to that. If there ate things that cannot be mentioned or discussed, opinions that cannot be examined and tested, then society stagnates. Ireland with its new anti-blasphemy laws is asking to eventually shrug off all social development it has made and could eventually reduce it self to a society like Saudi Arabia, where violence is the response to any thought that contravenes the orthodox.