RE: Hello!
February 15, 2011 at 12:47 pm
(This post was last modified: February 15, 2011 at 12:53 pm by AlexG.)
Quote:Hi and welcome. So do you think all religion should be banned?hi! In reality, of course I would not want it banned, I just rather it naturally fell out of people's conciousness and it was replaced with scientific reasoning (I suppose this is a fairly reasonable argument against the banning of religion, which I had not though of). However I know for sure that I will be arguing the case for the banning of religion, so I best concentrate on an argument for it; before I go thinking that there are no justifiable reasons for my side of the debate!
Quote:Complex question there, Alex....and welcome, btw. Without creating the "Thought Police" I don't see how it can be done because there are plenty of people who are simply too stupid to ever give up their illusions of a sky-daddy watching out for them.The institution idea is a very interesting one, thank you! I know that there is no chance of me really getting people to question their religion after the end of a very short mock debate, but maybe at least if one person has a genuine think about what has been said afterwards I would regard this as a good success
Still, given the harm which religion has inflicted on society (every society) since the dawn of the Agricultural Revolution it would seem possible to at least envision removing religion as an institution. The French Revolution did a fine job of this, for example....if only they could have sustained it.
One very positive step would be the elimination of all tax exemptions/subsidies for these parasites. Confiscation of church property and turning it into Starbucks franchises or whorehouses would be even better. If people want to believe in bullshit they can do so in their own homes without this whole god-establishment pushing its own agenda.