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L’Irlande vote l’abrogation du délit de blasphème AFP - 28 Octobre 2018 - RTBF
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L’Irlande a voté à 65% en faveur de l’abrogation du délit de blasphème de la Constitution, selon les résultats définitifs du référendum de vendredi publiés samedi soir.

Après le oui à la légalisation de l’avortement en mai et à celle du mariage homosexuel en 2015, ce référendum marque à nouveau la prise de distance du pays d’avec sa forte tradition catholique même si ce délit, considéré comme obsolète, n’a jamais été appliqué dans l’histoire récente.

Samedi soir, seule une poignée de personnes s’était rendue à l’annonce des résultats du référendum pour lequel la participation s’est établie à 44%. Un contraste frappant avec les célébrations qui avaient salué en mai la victoire du « oui » au référendum sur l’avortement où la participation avait été de 64%.

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Propos pouvant causer « l’indignation des fidèles »
Le blasphème a été défini dans la loi irlandaise de 2009 sur la diffamation comme tout propos ou action « grossier ou injurieux à l’égard des éléments sacrés d’une religion », pouvant ainsi causer « l’indignation des fidèles ».

L’article 40.6.1 de la Constitution stipulait son interdiction et le rendait passible d’une amende de 25.000 euros. Les dernières poursuites pour blasphème remontent à 1855, avant l’indépendance du pays, contre un prêtre disant avoir accidentellement brûlé une bible et finalement acquitté.

Le blasphème était revenu dans l’actualité en 2015 quant l’acteur et réalisateur britannique Stephen Fry avait traité Dieu de « stupide » pour avoir créé un monde rempli d’"injustices", sur la télévision irlandaise. Une enquête avait été ouverte mais elle n’avait débouché sur aucune poursuite.
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Stephen Fry Asked What He Would Say To God, His Answer Is Damning
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/stephen-fry-asked-what-he-would-say-to-god-his-answer-is-damning

Atheist Stephen Fry on Irish television show The Meaning of Life with Gay Byrne is asked, suposing he existed, what he would say to god - whom he describes as a capricious, mean-minded maniac. 

You MUST mock - Official site of Stephen Fry
▻http://www.stephenfry.com/2015/01/10/you-must-mock

I cannot be sure exactly how many people have seen one or more of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons that “insult” Islam or mock its prophet since the murders, but I should imagine the number is now in the tens of millions. Had the brothers stayed their bloody hands it would have been 60,000 at the very most. Mohammed must be very cross indeed that his two cretinous representatives have spread the ‘insults’ so far and so wide. If Said and Cherif Kouachi had had a grain of sense in their terminally moronic heads they could have foreseen that their actions would create secular martyrs, propagate those images they so disliked and increase yet again reasonable people’s dislike of the faith they claimed (rightly or wrongly) to represent.

Haha. Stephen Fry voit juste.

Stephen Fry Explains Humanism in 4 Animated Videos: Happiness, Truth and the Meaning of Life & Death | Open Culture
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk5IWzTfWeM#t=47

Answers to life’s big questions don’t come cheap, but they very often come free, or at least we feel they should. Which answers you find compelling among your available options is up to you. In the widely pluralist parts of the world—or at least in their urban centers—the answers come as often in the form of secular humanism as they do in any other variety, and they generally come with a certain amount of satisfaction that it is humanism, in part, that makes such variety possible. So what is humanism and why is it sometimes so proud of itself? You could do much worse than ask Stephen Fry, the genial English actor, comedian, writer, and passionate activist and advocate.

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR7e0fmfXGw

Fry narrates the video series here, “That’s Humanism,” for the British Humanism Association. He begins in “How do we know what is true?” at the top of the post by telling us what humanism is not. It is not a belief that knowledge comes from a supernatural source, from revelations, prophetic visions, or divinely inspired books. While many a humanist has found poetic inspiration in such things, as Fry explains, it’s only the scientific method that provides us with reliable information about the natural world.

In the video just above, Fry takes an evidence-based approach to the question of questions: what happens when we die. The humanist answer, as he plainly states, seems perfectly obvious to anyone—everyone dies, and everyone can live on in the lives of the people who’ve loved them. We leave the work we’ve done behind, and our bodies return to the elements from which they came. Anything else, he suggests, is wishful thinking.

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tpL1K8ZqrU

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#Humanism
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#Life
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The Humanists Guide to Morality Narrated by Stephen Fry
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the-humanists-guide-to-morality-narrated-by-stephen-fry

What makes something right or wrong? That’s the question posed in this short animation about morality, written and produced by the British Humanist Association and narrated by Stephen Fry.

Gay sex ? Wrong. Men raping girls ? Natural - according to Uganda’s Minister for Ethics and Integrity

Transcript from a conversation between Stephen Fry and Uganda’s Minister for Ethics and Integrity, as reported by Stephen Fry on The Late Late Show - ▻http://www.johnmbecker.com/2013/06/03/ugandan-minister-gay-sex-wrong-men-raping-girls-natural

Stephen Fry: ‘Look, even if these… utterly false supports on which you base your homophobia were true, which they aren’t, there’s so much more to worry about in your country than the odd gay person going to bed with the other gay person. For example, you have almost an epidemic of child rape in this country, which is just frightening’
Uganda’s Minister for Ethics and Integrity: ‘Ah, but it is the right kind of child rape.’
Stephen Fry: ‘That was on camera. Do you know that that was on camera?’
Uganda’s Minister for Ethics and Integrity: ‘Yes‘
Stephen Fry: ‘Can you just explain what you mean ?‘
Uganda’s Minister for Ethics and Integrity: ‘Well, is men raping girls, which is natural’

#rape #Uganda

#Rizzle_Kicks : le nouveau #hip_hop anti-#testostérone
▻http://fr.myeurop.info/2013/11/13/rizzle-kicks-hip-hop-anti-Jay-Z-12552

Tristan de Bourbon

Originaires de #Brighton, les deux #anglais de Rizzle Kicks relancent le hip hop britannique, à contre-courant de la misogynie et de l’homophobie du modèle dominant.

Ils sont jeunes, 21 à peine, vivent sur la côte sud de l’Angleterre lire la (...)

#Musiques #Royaume-Uni #homophobe #misogyne #Stephen_Fry

Stephen Fry slams Church of England for spreading lies about gay marriage | Gay Star News
►http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/stephen-fry-slams-church-england-spreading-lies-about-gay-marriage05101

Stephen Fry slams Church of England for spreading lies about gay marriage
Gay British broadcaster accuses religious leaders of trying to appease the ’extreme end’ of their membership
05 October 2012 | By Joe Morgan
Gay TV presenter Stephen Fry has slammed the Church of England for spreading lies about marriage equality.

Gay broadcaster, actor, author, presenter and wit Stephen Fry has slammed the Church of England of caving to extremists who have spread lies about marriage equality.

The atheist QI presenter said religious leaders who oppose same-sex weddings are trying to appease the ‘extreme end’ of their membership.

Fry reiterated the UK government’s continued declarations which say no one will be forced to carry out gay weddings if it is against their religious beliefs.

In a video for the Out4Marriage campaign, he says: ‘Those who are against gay marriage are somehow spreading this disinformation that we are going to say “You, you Reverend so-and-so, are forced to hold this gay marriage in your church”.

‘It’s not true! People who run churches, synagogues or mosques are not forced to marry previously divorced people, for example.’

Fry then turned on the Church of England, which is currently deeply divided over the issue.

‘It’s wrong, in a country like ours, which has an established Church, just because their more extreme end is screeching with outrage at the idea of this, that we are not allowed to be married,’ he said.

‘It’s unfair on plenty of other religious people and it is misrepresenting what we require, which is only the same as anybody else, and that’s to express our love in the fullest possible way of commitment.’

Fry, who is currently starring as puritan comic villain Malvolio in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, said while gay people used to be known as ‘bohemian and outrageous’, they are really just human beings who want to be loved just like everybody else.

The Out4Marriage video ends with a final argument, where Fry finishes: ‘At least 270 species of animal have been noted exhibiting homosexual behavior but only one species of animal ever, so far as we know, has exhibited homophobic behavior – and that’s the human being.

’Ask yourself what is really natural.’

The UK government is expected to release the findings of their consultation on marriage equality soon.

Watch Stephen Fry’s Out4Marriage video here:

Steve Jobs « The New Adventures of Stephen Fry
►http://www.stephenfry.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs/single-page

I once heard George Melly, on a programme about Louis Armstrong, do that dangerous thing and give his own definition of a genius. “A genius,” he said, “is someone who enters a field and works in it and when they leave it, it is different. By that token, Satchmo was a genius.” I don’t think any reasonable person could deny that Steve Jobs, by that same token, was a genius too.

Sujet de philo, vous avez 4 heures.

YouTube - Stephen Fry on American Prisons Facts (MIRROR)
►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TpFlOioXys

Certes certes, ça n’est pas Prison Valley (@davduf). Mais c’est assez étonnant de voir le sujet abordé de manière très critique dans l’émission comique de Stephen Fry (QI : Quite Interesting).

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