(February 1, 2016 at 5:02 am)Excited Penguin Wrote:(February 1, 2016 at 5:00 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: Who gets to decide which religious ideas should be banned, EP?
No one in particular, all of us together. That's how democracy works, SC. I am for democracy, if that wasn't clear.
That's how strict democracy works, and that's also why no successful nation on Earth employs a strict democratic system.
If the majority gets to decide what's banned, atheists are fucked. In America, if the majority got to decide, we'd still have different water fountains and schools for black people.
It would still be illegal to be gay in most parts of the American South. Segregated housing would still be more rampant than it is in the major cities and the south.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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