(October 15, 2011 at 3:05 am)Epimethean Wrote: Then let's make this thread evolve.
Should publicly celebrated religion be banned-i.e.,
It is unlikely that we can shut it down, but we can remove all privileges. No tax breaks for the religions, no tax breaks for donations to religions.
Remove the money and we remove the power. No power, no control.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy