To want to burn one of each Religious text today?

Utter tosh. By that thinking I could stand in the High Street naked and pleasure myself. I don't do it because it has been decided by the majority (and written in books) that doing so would land me in trouble.

@CantStopMoving

I agree, at least in certain respects. (I think there are particular morals that pretty much should be objectively true.) Others are, of course, entirely subjective.

I don't think it necessarily needs to be ignored, at least not by everyone who would find it bothersome. I think it should be taken into account that Paganism is an area that is already misunderstood, marginalised to some degree, and has a lot of undeserved prejudice against it, and individual Pagans can be subject to bigotry on the basis of their practice.

Burning texts associated with Pagan traditions could be seen as fuelling/promoting this kind of prejudice.

So, in the interests of counteracting ignorance and prejudice against Paganism, it is reasonable to criticise such actions and those who undertake them unjustly.

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I'm getting the impression that you personally don't care either way about Paganism or individual Pagans? (Which is fine, that's your choice.)

However, those of us that would like to challenge bigotry against Paganism can do well to call out actions that target/brand Paganism unfairly.

Well said.

Okay, so they still do in NI.
You said in your previous post that Christianity was already protected by law - is it really though if said law is never enforced?
Would someone burning a copy of the Bible be prosecuted in NI? Not that I think that they should be.

A world where you don't do things because they upset people, is a world that the most upset-able rule.

That is not a world any of us should want to live in.

Mature democracies understand this. Being upset does not mean you are right. And, importantly, it does not mean that you or your beliefs are harmless.

I will have a look.

You can burn books to your hearts content. Filming and showing them being burned knowing it will cause upset to certain people is a completely different thing, and rightly so should be condemned.

You can assume what you want, doesn’t make it right.

are we? I assumed this was an English based discussion as the OP referred to ‘this country’ , as in England

The point is, they exist.

Well we’re taking about the UK, ok?

He might have got away with the possession charge if he'd been a Sikh carrying a Kirpan.

Are blasphemy laws being enforced in NI?

yup that's what i said. Its the intent which is illegal and not the action

Why would you wish to extinguish learning and others opinions and beliefs
Why would you want to mindlessly offend others in such a pointless act

@DrPrunesqualer You are making big assumptions about why people would burn books. I suggest you listen to the Anti-Social episode I linked to above. For some ex-Muslims being able to 'disrespect' the Qy'ran is an important expression that they are now living in society where they will not be killed/ imprisoned etc for no longer being a Muslim or submitting to Muslim beliefs. You do not live in an oppressive theocracy or theocratic community and cannot perhaps understand why they feel the way they do.

Burning books can be done to oppress a group of people ( like the Nazis did) or it can be expression of liberation from, or defiance of, a group of people who are trying to oppress you.

Not in England- that is where I am and I think the OP is

But you don't need to imagine.

You can actually read about the case which is linked to above which will show you the comparison made here is entirely bogus. This was an act of political protest against the assassination (murder) of a political protestor in Sweden, and against the President of Turkey, Erdogan.

What you have illustrated here is the problem of people not bothering to look into cases but instead ' imaging' and then condemning people based on their own prejudiced ' imaginings.

Yes there are, as I’ve said in the post above. Don’t just believe everything you hear, OK?

Yea there are in NI, and NI is part of the UK.

But morality is subjective. It bothers you. It doesn’t bother me. That is how it should be. We all need to learn to just ignore people who do things we don’t like.

We dont have blasphemy laws, however, the UK is not a secular country. We have a state religion

But because I should be able too. Because we have no Blasphemy laws and mean as it is, it’s not illegal and shouldn’t be.

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@CantStopMoving

No, it shouldn't be criminalised, which I did state before. It is LEGALLY justifiable to burn texts associated with pagan religions. But IMO it is not MORALLY justifiable, because pagan religions are not trying to limit freedom of speech, or take away other rights.

Yes, people should have the complete freedom to burn texts associated with Pagan traditions if they wish to, but I'm going to call them prejudiced dicks if they do.

Thank you - I hadn't seen that. (Quite right that he has too!)

Prejudiced maybe but again should it be criminalised?