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Dilan Esper's avatar

This took guts to write. I upgraded to a paid subscription because you put this out.

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Jamie Baldwin's avatar

“It’s what she is asking for — that images of Muhammad never be shown, and by extension that everyone else, no matter what their views or beliefs, behave according to her own conservative religious rules — that is profoundly disrespectful, authoritarian, and anti-intellectual.” Exactly.

Is it that people have lost faith in reason or that the power conferred by religious belief is just irresistible?

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