RE: How many of you would punish religious people for being religious?
April 20, 2022 at 7:18 pm
(This post was last modified: April 20, 2022 at 7:27 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 20, 2022 at 5:49 pm)Huggy Bear Wrote:(April 16, 2022 at 1:52 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: As long as people don't push their beliefs on others, I don't care if someone wants to worship a badly taxidermied squirrel.
This sounds religophobic...
Some beliefs are fine to push on society, but we're going to draw the line at religious beliefs? The hypocrisy is mind blowing,
More to the point that, just as some beliefs are fine to push on society.... your basic humanity as a person despite all that melanin, for example...others are not. There's a strange preponderance of those ideas in the current crop of religions...but it never had to be that way (and still doesn't). It's a testament to the unique qualities of the theistic con that it so thoroughly corrupts the people who believe in in most ardently. To the point that their belief escapes the relatively victimless confines of their own head..and gets out there in the world, hurting people. Religion could police itself, but if it doesn't, and if it goes so far as to reject that notion, then it should consign itself to being policed...and that's how that actually panned out, in mere reality, fwiw.
Many christian denominations are merely immoral - and so "punishment" hardly rounds up to anything more than pointing out that they're assholes. But the super jesus freaks religion is immoral..and criminal. They only escape legal penalties insomuch as they fail to actively practice it - but, hey, give em credit for being dreamers, right?
If thinking that some beliefs are fine, and others not so much..is hypocrisy, well..I guess you'll have to count every christian in on that one. Yourself included. It takes a special kind of idiot to read the quoted text and decide that it sounds like an intolerant phobia.
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