Freedom of Expression

Fellow Colleagues,

tomorrow is my Grand Day, I will be presenting the above mentioned issue during my English lesson...

It must be a 15 minute speech, and I'm worried... Do I have enough to say for a 15minute speech? Funny, isn't it?? I barely keep my mouth shut for 2 minutes, and now I have a problem... The weird thing about this presentation is that our teacher is sitting right in front of us writing notes in his laptop! I suppose it must be hard to be speaking to a crowd (I'm not counting on more than 10 people looking at me!!!) and there is somebody evaluating you who is just writing and not really looking at you. So at least I think I don't have to concentrate myself on my own posture.;)

And here are some curiosities about my presentation issue!...

First of all I believe I will focus on Freedom of Religion, then on Freedom of Speech... Above all, I would like to make people notice that from the moment we started seeking for those liberties, we just lost them... Mankind can only face an issue if it is mean enough to imagine it... And that's what happened to FREEDOM, freedom of all, let it be speech or religion.

Mark Twain wrote :

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have these three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence to practice neither."

I do agree with him...

The ethics of Freedom means that it is just understandable and healthy if we do know when and when not to say something, when to express or just to shut up, and this is important. It is important to recognize that those who do really respect this modernity of free conscienceness and free expression are those who know when not to say or do something.

If we consider that freedom of religion is just there because there are religions we can think about it... Every kind of freedom we may fight for is just a result of our creation of a conflict.

There was a time, many many years ago, when Catholics and Muslims just had to fight each other, and that was okay... They didn't do it because Alah was better than God, or not only, they did it because the world's condition, the natural state of every empire, was WAR. Religion was just a political identity and, after all, the only one to that time. The world was divided into Christians (catholics) and Muslims.

And this is my point: Do you really believe that the two main religions of the world do something else but following the "doctrine of negation"? Religion turns out to be the major nihilistic group that there can be... Deny, deny... Complaining about a belief that is their own. This is an overwhelming story.

One should ban "official religions", one should take the legal authority from religions...

What do you think???

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