Another blasphemous one
Oh, Pakistan tells WordPress to block Jesus and Mo, does it?
Pakistan authorities ask WordPress to block posts showing J&M strips, and WordPress says "sure" https://t.co/9uZOAgCfTA
— AuthorJ&M (@JandMo) May 23, 2019
Okay then.
The Pakistani clerics have enormous political clout, which is why Pakistan’s economy is such a Mediaeval basket case. Too many clerical freeloaders at the table.
Hey, if in this strip the Barmaid had stated facts like “men are not women,” or defined a woman as “an adult human female,” we would be seeing British police forces being called into action. Perhaps this is even an underlying subtext of the cartoon as it stands? It fits perfectly.
YNnB:
I disagree. It is a very poor fit. Those are NOT statements of faith. To be truly such, a statement has to be impossible to verify empirically. So while ‘the Sun will rise tomorrow’ can be taken as just such a statement of faith, it can be tested empirically simply by waiting for tomorrow morning.
‘Men are not women’ can only be verified empirically by anatomical and/or genetic examination of every man and woman alive, and who has ever lived. A bit of an ask, but not in principle impossible. And where no physical remains can be found, the proposition that such an individual ever existed can be challenged, as it has been in the case of Yeshua bar Joseph. A bit harder in the case of Mohammad, as he was also a military conqueror, who left a considerable evidence trail of his activities.
In the case both of Jesus Christ (Yeshua bar Joseph) who the Gospels tell us ascended bodily into the sky, there to be joined by Mohammad, on his flying horse Buruq about half a millennium later, those ideas have to be taken on faith, if not with a generous pinch of salt. And though if true they would render considerable revision of the textbooks of science necessary, it would not be the first time that has happened, either..
There are plenty of men who have had the name ‘Mohammad’, both before and after the time of The Prophet of Islam. Likewise no doubt, a number named Yeshua bar Joseph.
But I grant you, categories such as ‘men’ and ‘women’ can overlap. So best play it safe, and leave it as ‘some men are not women, and vice versa.’
Hope this helps, and does not render me liable to a charge any category of phobia.
Wait, who says a statement of faith has to be impossible to verify empirically? There are degrees of faith, and they certainly don’t all depend on impossibility of empirical verification. A statement of faith can be true but arrived at by faith – which isn’t always or necessarily a bad thing: you can have faith a friend will do the right thing for instance.
But anyway…YNnB said statements of fact.
True. Life would be impossible without trust. But trust in A can only be based on the experience of A consistently keeping his or her word. Any trust in him/her would be arguably unwise if A’s hobby or occupation in the world at large is say, pickpocket or cat burglar; and/or with a history of violence.
Trust in A has to be based on either empirical evidence of his/her trustworthiness, or lack of evidence to the contrary. It goes with empathy as the foundation of all morality, as in the Confucian version of the Golden Rule: ‘do not do to others what you would not have others do to you.’
Depends on the company one keeps. Most people I know, I trust on the basis of long history of never being untrustworthy. A few I know I would not trust as far as I could kick a grand piano.
http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/SocialSciences/ppecorino/ETHICS_TEXT/Chapter_8_Kantian_Theory/Not_Golden.htm