(April 26, 2023 at 9:25 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: It would be more poisonous if religious people and service people weren't allowed to vote. I wouldn't consider a country that restricted voting on those critera to be a real democracy. It's not much of a democracy if people aren't allowed to vote based on ideology or religion; that is, on who they disagree with.
Yes, I agree with you.
If in fact it's true that "religion is poison to democracy" only and always, or that "religion poisons everything" as a general rule, then the logical conclusion is that religion should be excluded from democracy, and as many other things as possible.
But I think people who type such phrases aren't thinking about the ramifications of what they say. It's really phatic speech -- more like a grunt than a reasoned argument.
