RE: Ban Religion - are you for or against it and why?
October 16, 2011 at 9:01 am
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2011 at 9:02 am by ElDinero.)
(October 16, 2011 at 8:46 am)Rhythm Wrote: What happens when one of your goat followers tells everyone that the goat spoke to him, and that the goat said that unbelivers were somehow inferior. What other fun things then have all the justification human beings require?
Then that's what we fight against. Not the private worship and beliefs themselves. When those beliefs begin dictating actions that affect others.
(October 16, 2011 at 8:49 am)Epimethean Wrote: Can't do it that way, ElD. We are looking at the history of the big religions. Little religions grow into big ones, and in order to grow, they tend to take on these negative aspects.
Tend to. Not 'must do'.
Let me ask you guys something, then, since you fancy policing this. We'll use the latest new craze, Billygoatism, as an example. Say for example, religion gets banned. I refuse to denounce my beliefs, and I continue exactly as I was, worshipping a goat and lying face down every Tuesday and Friday. You get tipped off that I'm doing this and raid my house, finding plenty of goat-worshipping contraband and evidence that I am practising a religion. What would you tell me is the reason you are arresting me? Don't say 'practising religion'.
It's thoughtcrime, guys, no matter what reason you give for it. You're trying to police the private beliefs and actions of others.
(October 16, 2011 at 8:57 am)Rhythm Wrote: I'm not arguing that we should ban some as yet unidentified and unrealized religion, I'm talking about the ones that exist.
Right, then we're not even arguing about the same thing. I am talking about religion in principle.
