>Can everyone here do me a favor and quit bashing religion. I don't see that happening here. Perhaps you are reading something into comments that are more than what was intended? This sometimes happens when a sore spot is being discussed.
What I'm seeing bashed is religious extremism. Religious extremists, groups like the Taliban, seek to impose their beliefs by force on the rest of the community. I think this is what was meant when RMA posted "everybody has the freedom to practice MY religion." The gist of what I see being posted here is the belief that censorship and other forms of prior restraint are evil in themselves. That wrapping these evils in any religion is a perversion of religion. To add my 2 cents: The way to prevent the posting of photographs depicting illegal acts is to prosecute those in the photograph committing the illegal acts. The person posting the photograph should receive our thanks for calling our attention to the illegal act and should be asked to assist in the apprehension of the criminal(s). Instead lazy law enforcement says: we don't want to see any evidence of the crime and we will prosecute the messenger. A few months ago there was a high-profile international manhunt that lead to the arrest of a man in such a photograph. This needs to happen more often. Last week a tourist posted a web video of a NYC police officer assaulting a bicyclist. Would you have the tourist prosecuted? Of course not. I think the same rules should apply throughout. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
