re: #211 researchok

I believe blasphemy which is turned inward- as i criticizing or questioning one’s own faith or religious leaders or institutions is a good thing. Religion ought to be able to withstand challenges.

Blasphemy which is turned outward, directed at others or the beliefs of a different group is whole other thing.

Does criticizing a belief you’ve never held only become gouache when it contains a supernatural element?

As an agnostic I tend to avoid religious debates simply because I’m aware of my own limitations in understanding the divine, but even for me religious beliefs exist on a spectrum that runs somewhere between the unprovably plausible and the patently ridiculous. Maybe the fault is mine, but I’m not sure how an ex-Scientologist is on firmer ground criticizing the tenets of that religion than I am.