RE: Brainstorm
February 1, 2016 at 5:23 am
(This post was last modified: February 1, 2016 at 5:32 am by Ivan Denisovich.)
(February 1, 2016 at 5:12 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: Exactly. You want the third Great Awakening? Try 'banning' certain religious thoughts and ideas. That's a way to mobilize these knuckleheads with assault rifles. Y'allQaeda for real.
That would be highly probable result, though not every country is so armed as USA. Better solution would be church tax paid only by believers.
(February 1, 2016 at 5:14 am)Losty Wrote:(February 1, 2016 at 5:09 am)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: I wouldn't cry if religion were to be banned. Though apart from it being impossible it may have results that legislators had not in mind, i.e. rekindling of religious fervor.
I wouldn't cry, but I would protest. I can't think of anything more important than the freedom of thought. Ever person in the world should be granted mental autonomy.
I can't honestly say that I would protest. Maybe or maybe not; I value freedom highly but freedom from religious oppression is rather higher on my list than freedom to oppress, indoctrinate and sell cure to imaginary illness.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Mikhail Bakunin.
Mikhail Bakunin.