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To: annalex

You have established your argument on several points, including:

1) that the effect of blasphemy on the believer counts as harm

2) that such harm is settled in courts and results in removal of protection from speech

I offer a third point which demonstrates Voltaire and Dawkins must, according to your standard, lose protection of their speech:

3) to deny God’s existence is necessarily blasphemy if God in fact exists (and to the believer, he does).


313 posted on 01/16/2015 9:21:46 AM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: reasonisfaith

But incurring harm alone is not the test. Absence of reason must accompany the harm to constitute a tort.


314 posted on 01/16/2015 7:55:32 PM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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