RE: If you could make religion illegal
January 20, 2018 at 2:20 am
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2018 at 2:24 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 20, 2018 at 2:16 am)paulpablo Wrote: Some parts of the mafia may have been religious, some aren't. I'd say the mafia as a whole isn't a religious or spiritual organization, the church may have helped them, but they've also killed members of the church. The church wasn't helping them because of religion, the mafia didn't kill members of the church because of religion.
Their actions, their goals, and their members as a whole are of no specific religious alliance.
What....the fuck, lol? Again, I;m not sure why we're using the mafia as an example of organized secularism, but running with it for completely batshit reasons..again....it shows why an organized group is more dangerous than an unorganized one, and also that we're more than happy to blast the shit out of organized groups of people who present a specific threat or danger to society. We make allowance for organized religions, however, even when they do present specific dangers or threats...along a scale of "mostly harmless" to tossing virgins into volcanos.
One wonders where a given religion is teetering on that scale, and how we will respond when a religion inevitably crosses the line (wherever that is). Will we still give deference..or will we treat them like, for example..your organized crime syndicate.
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