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RE: How many of you would punish religious people for being religious?
April 17, 2022 at 2:52 am
(April 17, 2022 at 2:43 am)Helios Wrote: (April 17, 2022 at 2:38 am)Belacqua Wrote: I have no idea if it's a religious act or not. What is the source of the picture?
Is it typical of religion, in your view? Yes, it is a religious act called the Kama Matam, and again that's not what I asked. Now that you know this is a religious act is it intentional harm to a child?
In my opinion, this act is child abuse.
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RE: How many of you would punish religious people for being religious?
April 17, 2022 at 2:53 am
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Good that only took us 6 posts to get too
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RE: How many of you would punish religious people for being religious?
April 17, 2022 at 3:10 am
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(April 17, 2022 at 2:53 am)Helios Wrote: Good that only took us 6 posts to get too
I have not denied that some acts done in the name of religion can be child abuse. Everybody knows that's true.
Do you think that such abusive practices are essential, or representative, of religion? If parents raise a child in a religion without those practices, is it child abuse?
Is any child raised within a religion abused? If so, should the parents of that child be punished?
If you point to the worst examples from a worldwide, wildly varied phenomenon, and declare that they are the very definition of that phenomenon, it may not be a balanced interpretation.
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RE: How many of you would punish religious people for being religious?
April 17, 2022 at 3:21 am
This statement literally has nothing with what we were talking about
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RE: How many of you would punish religious people for being religious?
April 17, 2022 at 3:23 am
(April 17, 2022 at 3:21 am)Helios Wrote: This statement literally has nothing with what we were talking about
It's what I was talking about before you changed the subject.
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RE: How many of you would punish religious people for being religious?
April 17, 2022 at 3:25 am
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(April 17, 2022 at 1:58 am)Belacqua Wrote: (April 17, 2022 at 1:51 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: Are you actually going to tell me that deliberately cutting a spilling the blood of a defenceless child like that ISN'T child abuse?
deliberately cutting a spilling the blood of a defenceless child =/= religion
Circumcision, while it can also be a cultural practice, is part and parcel of several religions. Judaism goes so far as to claim that the descendants of Abraham are to be circumcised on the eighth day, as commanded by God (I think that something commanded by God = religion).
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RE: How many of you would punish religious people for being religious?
April 17, 2022 at 3:28 am
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: How many of you would punish religious people for being religious?
April 17, 2022 at 3:46 am
(April 17, 2022 at 3:23 am)Belacqua Wrote: (April 17, 2022 at 3:21 am)Helios Wrote: This statement literally has nothing with what we were talking about
It's what I was talking about before you changed the subject. I didn't change the subject 
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RE: How many of you would punish religious people for being religious?
April 17, 2022 at 3:49 am
(April 17, 2022 at 3:46 am)Helios Wrote: (April 17, 2022 at 3:23 am)Belacqua Wrote: It's what I was talking about before you changed the subject. I didn't change the subject
Nor are you willing to answer any of my questions.
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RE: How many of you would punish religious people for being religious?
April 17, 2022 at 3:54 am
Quote:Nor are you willing to answer any of my questions
Because your questions had nothing to do with my question
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