Other than that it just upsets superstitious people.

So you’ve decided to just ignore every point Hemant and Trevor make in their respective posts? The ample positive consequences of this event that they describe are all such nonsense that you don’t even need to address them—or, indeed, even notice the assertions that said positive consequences exist?

How arrogant.

[A]ll that public demonstrations of blasphemy does is to make the believer circle their wagons.

Did you even read these posts?

In other words, Blasphemy Day practitioners, you’re not helping: stop it.

Wait… a… minute… “You’re not helping”? That sounds so… familiar….

“Tom Johnson?” Is that you?

“Tom,” “William,” “Patricia,” “Milton,” “Polly-O,” “bilbo,” now “Justin,” among who-knows-how-may other pseudonyms… gad, man, how many socks do you have in that drawer of yours?

Maybe if atheists et al had some sort of symbol that outsiders recognised, we’d become more visible and start changing the minds of those who shun us.

Especially when yet another person has been persecuted for doing so. Every time Canada or the UN makes a horse’s ass of a decision against blasphemy, we should all spend the day in a t-shirt saying something blasphemous in protest and solidarity.

I think a nice t-shirt simply reading there is no god (or the religion is bullshit from kamaka above, I like that) would suffice nicely. I do, frankly, finding chalking sidewalks rather immature.

In other words, Blasphemy Day practitioners, you’re not helping: stop it.

The point of Blasphemy Day is to stand up to the people who would make it a crime to say “religion is bullshit”, or worse, to say Islam is a buch of made-up crap and it is doubtful there ever was a prophet Mohammed… that one is punishable by death.

Jesus Christ on a stick, wanting to kill me for free expression of ideas is far worse than any supposed blasphemy. It’s long past due time to stand up to this version of religious repression.

Too bad if their puny little sensibilities are injured.

“I like the idea of Blasphemy Day, but from the article it sounds fairly dangerous if you’re one of the people doing the blasphemy.”

Anyone like Justin is completely ignoring that fact. That fact alone is the reason justifying the practice. Whenever someone tries to bully you, you cannot submit, otherwise they will continue. They bully because they think they can get away with it.

As an atheist in Oklahoma, I am not embarrassed in the slightest when I explain to people that simply because I question their mythology does not mean that I am a dick.