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Thread #32993   Message #437494
Posted By: Amos
10-Apr-01 - 02:36 PM
Thread Name: Blasphemy or not?
Subject: RE: Blasphemy or not?
Blasphemy as a concept teaches us that certain kinds of communication are bad and should not be permitted. This may or may not be true. But an honest communication cannot be a blasphemous one in any real way. It may however be an "illicit" one in the sense that you don't have the permission of your peers to utter certain thoughts. This leads you to the tough question -- on whom do you depend to issue your license to communicate? For my part, it's between me and my own cockamamie version of the infinite. Others may prefer Rome. Chacun a son mauvais gout.

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