Female Football Fans Found Guilty Of Ripping Up The Koran.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2618005/Two-female-football-fans-ripped-pages-Koran-throwing-air-like-confetti-chanting-racist-songs-Muslims.html

Since there are many on AnswerBank who admit to being none believers in religion ie Atheists etc, can they now state whether or not these two women should have been prosecuted for ripping up a religious book?

[pixie373]

Racist chanting and littering- prosecute. Tearing up books- up to them, if they owned the books.

[pixie373]

Is insulting someone illegal?

[joko]

Khandro - I have read enough books and articles etc on the subject to know what I think of it.
I do not need to have a in depth knowledge of every single book you have in order to have an opinion.
and having that knowledge, i have come to the conclusion that i dont need any more of it, in order to know how i feel.

you are missing the point completely - there is not a book on this planet that could convince me that religion is a good thing - i know because i tried - as well as various forms of spiritualism, wicca etc.

religion in its entirety - in my eyes - is destructive and wrong and we would be better off without it, and whilst i accept that a few passages of text here and there may have some merit, and give out a good and positive message, what they stand for as a whole is something i have no time for and hope one day in the future all religion will be a relic of the past.

[Khandro]

joko; The explanation of your personal view of the world is sincere and fine by me, the objection I have to your previous statement was your desire to have all books with which you disagree or haven't even read, destroyed. That was what I referred to as 'primitive', - the act of a savage.

[joko]

khandro - its not really a case of disagreeing with the book itself or not having read it etc (i have read plenty) - my only issue with this book - and all other religious texts - is that, i believe, religion causes more harm than good in the world, any form of religion is wrong, and we would be generally happier as a species without it in our lives.
it affects too much of our lives, in ways many don't even realise - it is so ingrained that non-religious people will state things as being 'right' not realising where the notion comes from ... it creates neurosis, guilt, worry, angst, judgement, prejudice etc etc, and the list goes on and on getting worse and worse, down to murder, mutilation, wars etc etc

aside from a few nice bits, notions of love and peace etc, (which are not really religious things, rather ways of life) religion as a whole has caused nothing but trouble, and that far outweighs any benefits.

and all that is quite aside from the fact that i believe all religion is nonsense and people who believe are brainwashed fools.

i respect your right to believe whatever you choose ... but i will never respect religion

[Khandro]

joko; OK, we respect one another's positions, and I'm glad about that, but I think your hope that without religion everyone would move to the sunny uplands of peace and happiness is something of a delusion; swapping a transcendental god for an omnipotent humanity would alter very little in human affairs I fear.
Also there remains in most people's hearts the need for some form of spiritual dimension born out by attempts to form a 'Church of Atheism';

http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9141372/so-tell-me-about-your-faith-journey-sunday-morning-at-the-atheist-church/

Typically though, they seem to have already a schism forming, those to whom God doesn't exist, and those not believing in God. Hmmm! :-)