(December 4, 2018 at 5:17 pm)Drich Wrote:(December 4, 2018 at 5:03 pm)unsapien Wrote: That this doesn't scare you is understandable if you think your god is real, that it scares atheists like me should be understandable to you because it means we see you as operating as an amoral agent in a godless world, and that you may think you're exempt from following the moral norms of our society. (e.g. the catholic church)
Of course it scares you. which is why Clinton as apart of her campaign was/is so willing to repeal the 1 amendment,and is bent on "changing deeply held religious views and ideas." What both of you are intentionally over looking is to what end we are charged/what our mission statement is as a member of the church. We are tasked to two ends. One love God with all of our being. and 2 to love our neighbor as our selves. If we follow these commands how then can we be a threat even if we are not bound to your morals? The only thing we seek is to have the freedom to not live the life you choose to live. why does that bother you so much?
What I think you fail to understand is that your "religious freedom" is a protection (basically a blasphemy law) that is afforded no other type of speech. "Economic" speech, "scientific" speech, "art" speech "engineering" speech, ad nauseum... they do not require special protection because they rise and fall on their own merit, in fact that is the way they grow and learn, and change, and add to our benefit as a society.
And if it must be said, religions need more protection from each other then from secular society, they're like those bubble fight games...
![[Image: bubble-soccer-balls.jpg]](https://old.stuffyoushouldhave.com/images/bubble-football-battle-balls/bubble-soccer-balls.jpg)
where religions seem to mutually agree not to poke any real holes at each other, lest they deflate all of their arguments at once.
EDIT: Also your comment about Clinton wanting to repeal the 1st amendment sounds like total BS on the face of it.
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"If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are." - Captain Picard