How many of you would punish religious people for being religious?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Atheists on the internet? We're setting the bar pretty low aren't we? Wouldn't you be annoyed with an argument premised on "theists on the internet say x"?

And you'd be justified in thinking that. Because it's strawmanning.

As you can see, it's hard to get a straight answer here.

Fake obviously thinks that raising a child in a religion is child abuse. But we knew he would say that.

Valkyrie seems to equate "religion" with "cutting a child's forehead," which is a practice done within a certain religion, but not, I think, something essential with or contiguous to religion. 

Boru brings up circumcision, without any argument as to whether or not it's child abuse, or relevant in any way.

Helios wants to talk about his own thing and doesn't want to address the issue. 

So the subject was that Dawkins, among other atheists, believes that raising a child within a religion is child abuse. No one wants to say that he's wrong. 

If he's right, and it's child abuse, then religious parents should be punished.

I'll say it: Dawkins is wrong about this. People who agree with Dawkins (on this) are wrong.

On the other thing, I brought up circumcision in response to the claim that spilling the blood of a defenseless child does not equal religion. It IS part of several religions and - as I said - in Judaism it is directly mandated by God.

I'm not sure how the permanent disfigurement of an infant's genitals for no other reason that to fulfill a religious dictum doesn't qualify as child abuse.

Boru