(May 29, 2014 at 6:03 pm)Artur Axmann Wrote:(May 29, 2014 at 1:38 pm)Cato Wrote: I am perfectly fine with this until the pious attempt to use the power of the state to control my behavior based solely on their religious sensitivities. Making it illegal for everybody to purchase alcohol on Sunday is an example.
If I may speak for the State , to advise you that all we wish is for you to go back into the closet.
Keep your atheism to yourself and you won't be bothered.
The State has a vested interest in maintaining religious beliefs in society.
Remember, after the French revolution, they had to recall all the clergy they had previously exiled.
Vive la France
"If I may speak for the State "
Unless you're an actual representative of the state, then NO!
"to advise you that all we wish is for you to go back into the closet."
Why the hell should we? Freedom of expression is a cornerstone of western democracy.
"Keep your atheism to yourself and you won't be bothered."
Bullshit. We'll still have to deal with arseholes trying to push their beliefs into law, stopping us on streetcorners and knowcking on our doors to push their beliefs, and all that other obnoxious shit they get up to when they go unopposed.
"The State has a vested interest in maintaining religious beliefs in society"
No it doesn't. Provide citation of this ludicrous claim
"Remember, after the French revolution, they had to recall all the clergy they had previously exiled."
Remember the Dark Ages - that 800 or 900 years when western society stagnated and basically failed. That was what happened to Europe when the church was in control.
You yourself have shown yourself to be anti science. With the likes of you and conservative Christians in charge of the government, the US would fall back into another Dark Age.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
