(July 5, 2011 at 10:44 am)Napoleon Wrote: The rights of mister piggy here:
Are WAY more important than some shitty 'religious rights'.
This gets to what I think is the heart of the problem, and that is that the freedom of religion is regarded more leeway than any other freedom. Imagine if I started throwing pigs off of an overpass and claimed it was might right under freedom of speech to put across my message that eating pigs is evil. Would that work? No. The fact that it has taken even this long for most countries to even consider banning these slaughtering practices just shows how much society is willing to live with in the name of freedom of religion. We need to stop allowing ludicrous and stupid actions to be perpetrated in the name of religion.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
