A Small Census

[Shell B]

Ok fair enough Shell B. What I'm trying to say, is that you cannot believe in the legitimacy of it's justification.

Agreed. I think religion is foolish for the most part, but I am fair enough to know that is my opinion. At least, I try to be.

For example, if you lived during Ummayads times and they read hadiths to you (supposedly quoting the Prophet) that you must obey rulers even if they oppress you and whip you and take away your possessions, you would not be able to believe in these hadiths and it's legitimacy because you don't even believe in God(s) let alone a Prophet let alone the hadiths propagated by them attributing it to the Prophet.

Well, yes, but my political stance would not be based on religion. It would be based on the lunacy of whipping people and stealing their things.

You don't accept the divine command perception that theocratic societies live by.

Yes, but that is not a political stance. That is a religious stance.

That it is a political stance.

It is not. I would not base my political views on my lack of religion. I would determine whether it was a healthy government before I would accept or deny the principles of that government. Of course, I would not live in a theocratic society on basis of belief in god, not because of the politics involved.