RE: How does your WV inform your politics?
August 29, 2023 at 12:48 pm
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2023 at 12:50 pm by FrustratedFool.)
Because religion is founded on demonstrable falsehoods.
And since it appeals to people's innate predisposition, but is generally harmful and deleterious to civilisation, people need to be protected from it, the same way they need to be protected from racism, Nazism, gambling, and crack.
That's why we have things like hatespeech laws, restrictions on what can be taught in state schools, restrictions on advertising, restrictions on political.parties advocating for terror, and so on. We protect democracy and separate church and state for the greater good.
And since it appeals to people's innate predisposition, but is generally harmful and deleterious to civilisation, people need to be protected from it, the same way they need to be protected from racism, Nazism, gambling, and crack.
That's why we have things like hatespeech laws, restrictions on what can be taught in state schools, restrictions on advertising, restrictions on political.parties advocating for terror, and so on. We protect democracy and separate church and state for the greater good.
