(March 12, 2013 at 2:32 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Probably it would look like the government taxing people at very, very high rates and using it to support social programs that the people didn't want to pay for, and ignoring the ways that people already deal with those issues in their communities. Actually, that is what is happening right now.
The state wants to force people to pay for things that many people don't want, money that explicitly goes to secular programs that cannot be easily used for religious programs.
This is very authoritarian.
As I have to see my hard-won tax money subsidizing churches, energy producers, big banks and the military-industrial complex against my will, I think all I can say is get the fuck over it.
Quote:It would also force people to accept political correctness as an enforced, public morality, as it is presently done in universities. Try working at a university and writing a book about why homosexuality is wrong. They will say it is hate speech. They have "non-discrimination laws" that make it "illegal" to discriminate against anyone, except the 80% of Americans who are Christian and others who are religious.
Not all atheists are liberal fascists, but some are.
Considering how Christians treated non-Christians (and, in many ways continue to treat non-Christians), you should hope we don't burn you at the stake, steal your property or deny you participation in society for having a different belief, yet here you are, whining about 'discrimination', none of which actually even exists. (not allowing Christians to force their beliefs on everyone else is not discrimination).