The Blasphemy Challenge

I'm sorry, was that a question?If you would like to start a new OP I would be happy to join you there.

This guy looks like he's full of parasites, this is wrong... these kids are young, and they probably don't know what they want... Blah, although I don't believe mere words can damn you forever, this is just sick what is happening here... Eh, it's a "free country" right? Let 'em speak their twisted and destroyed minds.

I don't think so. It's just some silly competition, even if it does have an underlying agenda, and that how I think of it - as a competition. I've heard of cruder competitions, such as seeing who can hold your urine for the longest to get a Nintendo gaming console.

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"Der Mensch kann was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will." (Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.) - Arthur Schopenhauer

Think about it carefully...have you ever heard a Christian say that blasphemy is unpardonable? Or that anything is unpardonable? The usual misunderstanding is that Christians get a free-pass for everything.I am telling you that it is just quote-mining of the Bible without understanding anything of the meaning. If you can take an in-depth answer I will elaborate, but I hope you will trust me that I have no fear of hell over mere words, and no belief that God will condemn anyone based on a misunderstanding of scripture alone.

For one, it is not indoctrinating anything. It is a stupid dare with a reward. It is about as meaningless as making me deny the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Did you see the one where the nine year old girl would like to paint nails for a living, give her a chance to tell people about the Lord while they listen to relaxing Christian music? People would just be able to accept...If I looked long enough do you think I could find a 9 year old Muslim, Buddhist, or Jew? I agree.

Sorry I haven't seen the one with the child wanting to paint nails... if you could show me that would be cool....

That's not right. There should be an age limit. At 9, you can't know what you believe. No child can be an 'atheist child', 'Muslim child', 'Christan child', 'Mormon child' etc, because they don't have the maturity to make up their mind.The competition should have had an age limit.

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"Der Mensch kann was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will." (Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.) - Arthur Schopenhauer

The Challenge did NOT use a nine year old girl. The girl referred to is from the O'Reilly parody in the last link from the OP.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVRbMfh52Ts&NR

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Two, several of the participants are much too young to even understand what they are blaspheming against, or whether they will ever regret it in the future.

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For one, it is not indoctrinating anything. It is a stupid dare with a reward. It is about as meaningless as making me deny the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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Right.So, you do realize that you just contradicted your initial argument with this second one?At first, you object to very young children being presented with the Blasphemy Challenge, because they don't "...even understand what they are blaspheming against, or whether they will ever regret it in the future."But now, after I have essentially pointed out that this "Challenge" pales in comparison to the brainwashing most religions inflict upon very young children who are not old enough to "...even understand what they are blaspheming against, or whether they will ever regret it in the future.", you say it is merely a "stupid dare" and "meaningless".Well, which is it?

Well, first off, teaching someone about a faith is not the same thing as daring them to 'blaspheme' something else. I, at least, did not have mockery of other religions as part of my religious training.But more to the point, you will notice that when I said this; It was only a GUESS about why a Fox commentator may have stated 'this makes me sick'. The question had been asked of me in the previous post.When I said this; It was MY feelings on the matter. Again, the folks behind this challenge are quote-mining the Bible and putting forth this 'unforgiveable sin' that no christian has ever heard of.Atheism, if it wants to deny God, has much more ground to cover than just the christian variations. It is rather lovely that this group sees christianity as its main threat...and making such statements as 'this challenge will end when christianity ends' turns atheism to a hate-mongering religion of its own, and will probably only fire more zeal in the hearts of christians.Edited by anastasia, : No reason given.Edited by anastasia, : No reason given.

It's really very common. I was brought up in a pretty anti-Catholic environment. You might notice the remnants of that training once in a while. I'm not convinced that intellectual attempts to end an ideology constitute "hate-mongering". That's not a very good source of zeal.

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Well, OK, but the point I was making, and still remains, is that using the issue of children being "too young to understand what they are blaspheming against and if they might regret their actions later in life" works both ways.

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I, at least, did not have mockery of other religions as part of my religious training.

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Then you are rare.On the other hand, you probably learned to pity those who don't believe as you do, which is just a softer, less agressive form of mockery.

Intellectual? You must be kidding. It's just a bunch of mall-rats and rock-star wanna-bes. Been to Hot Topic lately? Christianity, especially Catholicism, sells.

So, how does one blaspheme against the gods of atheism? I really wouldn't worry too much. We all have time to un-believe, and if we don't, we haven't missed much. It takes a life-time to reach even a tenth of the perfection christianity asks of us, and only one moment to give it up. And it is not really challenging to teach atheism. Most so called 'christian' parents are doing a fine job of that already.