RE: If you could make religion illegal
January 19, 2018 at 10:43 pm
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2018 at 10:46 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 19, 2018 at 10:21 pm)Tres Leches Wrote: Religion doesn't bother me except when holy book thumpers try to push their religions into schools and government.
-and that -is- religion to those people. We're all just a tad bit more comfortable with "thought policing" than we might realize. In truth, the debate is not whether "thought policing" is kosher...but what level of thought policing we are comfortable with, and why.
Governments (and societies) have -always- put restrictions on beliefs. There has never been, in the history of man, a "free belief".
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