Sigh. This topic (first post) is obviously opened by a troll for the purpose of trolling. His several posts were already deleted for trolling.
Here he proposed that religion be banned. Atheists are not trying to ban religion, but it's rather how theists are trying to portray atheists, as another way to avoid any serious discussion about religion. And you can see how some other asshole on this forum is trying to egg discussion in that way.
Banning religion is not even in the spirit of today's humanist democracies, just like banning astrology, chiromancy, or some other nonsense.
Here he proposed that religion be banned. Atheists are not trying to ban religion, but it's rather how theists are trying to portray atheists, as another way to avoid any serious discussion about religion. And you can see how some other asshole on this forum is trying to egg discussion in that way.
Banning religion is not even in the spirit of today's humanist democracies, just like banning astrology, chiromancy, or some other nonsense.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
