RE: Ban Religion - are you for or against it and why?
June 27, 2011 at 8:33 pm
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2011 at 8:36 pm by Violet.)
(June 16, 2011 at 1:34 am)twocompulsive Wrote: Banning religion is attacking the symptom, not the cause. What you need to go after is human nature and for that you would have to overthrow 200, 000 years of Evolution so on a practical level it really isn't feasible.
So what is the cause?

And if it was 'human nature', then I (being human), would also be subject to it. Yet I'm not. I don't wonder why, but maybe you do

(June 27, 2011 at 8:25 pm)BethK Wrote:(June 13, 2011 at 5:14 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I also think banning religion would be grossly unfair to stupid people who need fables to get them through their day.
However, their church property and income should be taxed and they should be told to STFU about political issues.
Yeah. In fact, how DO we objectively ______________________?
tell the difference between a fiction story with fictional non-human characters (perhaps superior to humans) and someone writing a "scripture"? We don't want to ban "Star Wars" and _Lord of the Rings_ along with the Bible, Koran, and Book of Ubizmo. (Google it)
The better question is bold. How do we objectively _______________________?
There is no difference between 'scripture' and 'fiction'. Doesn't mean we can't lean from either of course (subjectively, as always)

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Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
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