RE: If you could make religion illegal
January 20, 2018 at 5:02 am
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2018 at 5:05 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 20, 2018 at 4:53 am)paulpablo Wrote: I probably won't read that to be honest with you. You asked for a secular organization comparable to a religious organization in terms of shittinees, violence whatever.Now I get the disconnect. No, that's not what I asked for. I asked for an example of some group or system of organized secularism that did some shitty thing that we just shrugged at, or made allowances for. I asked..because we -do- shrug and make such allowances for organized religions when they do shitty things.
This is why the mafia was not a good example, nor the american govrnment. Because we gutted the mafia, and ofc we (ostensibly) hold our government and other governments accountable for their actions. Claiming a strongly held religious belief is one of the things that..in america, can confer leeway which other organised this or that's do not have. From taxes, to the death of a child.
However using crime (and organized crime) as an example. Why is it that a scam tithing church can prey on the geriatric for their incomes legally...but a small team of cons at a nursing home cannot? Strongly held religious beliefs.
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