(June 8, 2010 at 5:12 am)Killman Wrote: I am going to be talking about America here, since I live in the shithole.
One of the biggest "Great" things that hardcore America fanboys will say to you and its always been said, that America has complete "Freedom to choose one's Religion." Now, I do believe that this is true, but only about 10% of it. Sure, we can choose are religious views without getting shot in the head every second, but that doesn't mean we are still doing the right thing, in the minds of society at least. For example, have you ever seen the religious television networks around? Okay, they are able to discuss everything about there religion, since Christianity is the most popular religion here. Now, lets say that I try to make an athiest network. How long do you think that it would last??? Maybe a day. Probably less. This is true for any other religion that is not linked to Christianity. Its the same in the way that Christians are allowed to publicly advertise their religion or even put it in schools (Which isn't supposed to happen) but if you try to do that with any other religion or atheism or or whatever, you will not succeed.
Your thoughts?
Having the freedom to chose one's own religion doesn't mean your choice has to become popular (because you'd like to be popular) - or in other words, freedom doesn't mean that a bunch of other people have to agree with you because you can make a decision. The two (personal freedom and personal popularity) are simply not connected in the way you think they are supposed to be, I guess.
