ZiSunka
25th April 2007, 08:39 PM
Maybe it's just the websites and radio stations I hang around on, but I seem to be noticing that there is a lot more open anamosity and even hatred against religious people and religion.
YouTube currently has over 1000 videos mocking, denigrating, opposing or even threatening people of faith. Time Magazine has started a monthly column that pokes fun of faith.
I've gotten chain emails asking the recipient to forward them to every Christian they know--it has a link to a website that has video of a man who rants for 30 minutes about how people who believe in God are the real evil in the world and are infectious viruses that are killing the world through war, lies, violence and deception. The man in the video suggests that it's the duty of every thinking person to stop Christianity, Judaism, Islam, buddhism and Hinduism by destroying the right of free speech. He calls for the people viewing the video to contact the government to have religious expression as hate speech (nevermind that he's practicing hate speech with his video) and have everyone who practices religion outside their own home arrested.
Elton John has been videoed ranting against religion many times.
One video I watched on YouTube was so violently anti-religion that the man actually said that "these people (meaning people of faith) need to be stopped whatever way necessary." He uses every vulgarity possible, especially against one person who went so far as to disagree with him. YouTube has allowed this video to stay up and has ranked it in their "feature video" section, despite the fact that many people have marked it as inappropriate because of it's hate speech.
So, have you seen or experienced this turnaround? Have you received disparaging emails or videos?
YouTube currently has over 1000 videos mocking, denigrating, opposing or even threatening people of faith. Time Magazine has started a monthly column that pokes fun of faith.
I've gotten chain emails asking the recipient to forward them to every Christian they know--it has a link to a website that has video of a man who rants for 30 minutes about how people who believe in God are the real evil in the world and are infectious viruses that are killing the world through war, lies, violence and deception. The man in the video suggests that it's the duty of every thinking person to stop Christianity, Judaism, Islam, buddhism and Hinduism by destroying the right of free speech. He calls for the people viewing the video to contact the government to have religious expression as hate speech (nevermind that he's practicing hate speech with his video) and have everyone who practices religion outside their own home arrested.
Elton John has been videoed ranting against religion many times.
One video I watched on YouTube was so violently anti-religion that the man actually said that "these people (meaning people of faith) need to be stopped whatever way necessary." He uses every vulgarity possible, especially against one person who went so far as to disagree with him. YouTube has allowed this video to stay up and has ranked it in their "feature video" section, despite the fact that many people have marked it as inappropriate because of it's hate speech.
So, have you seen or experienced this turnaround? Have you received disparaging emails or videos?