(May 13, 2012 at 8:09 am)StatCrux Wrote: It seems to me that atheists don't support democracy. If a country was 80% Christian and voted that Christian laws should be passed, would atheists accept the laws as democratic? If the majority of a society is Christian and wants Christian laws shouldn't those laws be respected?
No, we don't. Not always, that is. There are many questions on which the majority does not make right. Questions of fact, for example. You can throw out statistics about more that 50% Americans believing in creationism, they'd still be wrong. Individual rights is another such thing. It doesn't matter if there is 99% of the population shouting that atheists should not have the same rights as citizens, that's still be the wrong decision to make. That is precisely why some very smart people write a country's constitution, to make it more difficult a dumb generation to fuck things up.
