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Poll: Ban Religion - are you for or against it and why?
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I support it
19.05%
16 19.05%
I oppose it
80.95%
68 80.95%
Total 84 vote(s) 100%
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Ban Religion - are you for or against it and why?
#21
RE: Ban Religion - are you for or against it and why?
I oppose banning religion because I oppose thought policing.
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#22
RE: Ban Religion - are you for or against it and why?
Not only this would be against personal privacy and freedom, banning it only makes religious people more radical and offensive, and non-religious people eager to become religious. Religion should not be forced or banned, it should be there for lesser mind to blindly follow it, and everyone else to avoid it.
In the deep forest by a yearnings side
Is a flower growing in the still of the night.
Moonlit night with her would blend - if you break her...
Your life must end!
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#23
RE: Ban Religion - are you for or against it and why?
Why would it make
Quote:non-religious people eager to become religious
?
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#24
RE: Ban Religion - are you for or against it and why?
(February 21, 2011 at 2:45 pm)DoubtVsFaith Wrote: Why would it make
Quote:non-religious people eager to become religious
?

maybe I explained it wrong, I meant it's like the concept of the Forbidden Fruit, it's forbidden but it's there, and everybody want to grab a taste of it.

In the deep forest by a yearnings side
Is a flower growing in the still of the night.
Moonlit night with her would blend - if you break her...
Your life must end!
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#25
RE: Ban Religion - are you for or against it and why?
So you wouldn't ban a cult that sacrifices humans or willing hurts humans?
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#26
RE: Ban Religion - are you for or against it and why?
(February 21, 2011 at 2:49 pm)Tearjerker Wrote: maybe I explained it wrong, I meant it's like the concept of the Forbidden Fruit, it's forbidden but it's there, and everybody want to grab a taste of it.

However, grasping and wanting doesn't convince you into belief.
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#27
RE: Ban Religion - are you for or against it and why?
(February 21, 2011 at 2:51 pm)Ashendant Wrote: So you wouldn't ban a cult that sacrifices humans or willing hurts humans?

That's a cult and an entirely different slough, we are talking about religions.

(February 21, 2011 at 2:53 pm)DoubtVsFaith Wrote:
(February 21, 2011 at 2:49 pm)Tearjerker Wrote: maybe I explained it wrong, I meant it's like the concept of the Forbidden Fruit, it's forbidden but it's there, and everybody want to grab a taste of it.

However, grasping and wanting doesn't convince you into belief.

True, not everyone will suddenly fall victim, but many will. And don't forget this was one of the reasons religions grow bigger during the course of history, some of them was banned because of the presence of a different one or a different ideology. It took time for them to slowly take over and at some points with the forcefulness of swift naked blades, for example Scandinavians and Persians.
In the deep forest by a yearnings side
Is a flower growing in the still of the night.
Moonlit night with her would blend - if you break her...
Your life must end!
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#28
RE: Ban Religion - are you for or against it and why?
(February 21, 2011 at 3:18 pm)Tearjerker Wrote: True, not everyone will suddenly fall victim, but many will.

How is wanting to believe ever convincing?
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#29
RE: Ban Religion - are you for or against it and why?
(February 21, 2011 at 3:18 pm)Tearjerker Wrote:
(February 21, 2011 at 2:51 pm)Ashendant Wrote: So you wouldn't ban a cult that sacrifices humans or willing hurts humans?

That's a cult and an entirely different slough, we are talking about religions.

scientology is a dangerous cult in france and a religion in the USA
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#30
RE: Ban Religion - are you for or against it and why?
(February 21, 2011 at 3:18 pm)Tearjerker Wrote:
(February 21, 2011 at 2:51 pm)Ashendant Wrote: So you wouldn't ban a cult that sacrifices humans or willing hurts humans?

That's a cult and an entirely different slough, we are talking about religions.

A religion is merely a cult that has achieved legitimacy through government recognition.
"If an injury must be done to a man, it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared" - Niccolo Macchiavelli
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