The Free World's Blasphemy Law - Debunked (Stephen Fry Blasphemy)

Blasphemy law is, and has always been, a disgrace to any culture that calls itself “free”. As George Orwell once said, “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

Now we often hear that the Western World is free, and indeed, much of it is – within the confines of decency we’re free to act as we wish, and we’re entirely free to think and speak as we wish… that is, unless you live in Denmark, Finland, Greece, or Ireland - then you're free to say whatever you want unless it’s something mean about the Abrahamic god – because, you know, an all-powerful god is vulnerable to mean words…

This, is The Free World’s Blasphemy Law – Debunked.

Link to Stephen Fry on god

Throughout this video I primarily explain why free speech and blasphemy laws are incompatible, and that Free speech is the right that allows us to secure and defend all other rights. It is the foundation of a free society, and that therefore I would argue that either these "free" countries must abolish their blasphemy laws, or we should no longer refer to them as "free".

From here I pin-point several other flaws with blasphemy as a whole, but for a very brief summary (extremely brief), they are as follows:

1. Blasphemy Laws are a Ridiculous:

Blasphemy laws are a @&%*ing joke... and I swear on purpose - because likewise to swearing, blasphemy is a victimless crime. A Christian doesn't get hurt when someone swears or says something mean about their divine North Korean, they get offended – and funny enough, Fry's response to people getting offended is second to none:

"It's now rather common to hear people say 'I'm very offended by that' as if it give them certain rights... it's actually nothing more... it’s simply a whine [...] it has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase; 'I am offended by that' well so fucking what!

2. Blasphemy Laws Exist to Preserve Ignorance:

And this brings us to the real reason why blasphemy law exist. It’s not to defend an all-powerful god, because such a being would be necessarily impervious to offense… it exists to preserve religious ignorance, because deep down the religious know that their beliefs cannot withstand rationality, and they know that the application of criticism will dissolve their undeserved privileges – that, is why blasphemy law exists.

3. An All-Powerful AND All-Loving god Certainly doesn’t Exist:

Fry is absolutely correct when he calls the Abrahamic god a mean-minded maniac, because if this god exists and truly is all-powerful (as its proponents do indeed claim), then the state of the universe proves, without a doubt, that this god is utterly, utterly evil.

To illustrate this, I’m going to quote Epicurus, a man who lived three-hundred years before the inception of Christianity, and who within this one quote alone entirely eviscerated the idea of an all-powerful and all-loving god for good:

“Is god willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him god?”

Hence, if an all-powerful god exists then it’s necessarily not all-loving because evil exists.

4. Fry Illustrates Real Morality:

And the final point I want to make is that when Fry stated that he wouldn’t want to get into heaven on the Abrahamic god’s terms, he demonstrated true morality and real benevolence, because unlike the religious, who Appeal to Authority for their morality, Fry demonstrated that he actually cares about the wellbeing of others…

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As always, thanks you kindly for the view, and I hope that this video will help you point out that many “free” countries aren’t actually free.