RE: Why should religion have any influence on our lives?
October 3, 2014 at 8:34 am
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2014 at 8:38 am by Michael B.)
(October 3, 2014 at 8:19 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: *coughs* I don't think you quite read Fidel right there, Michael. Pretty sure he wasn't talking about top-down government enforcement (hence his point about religious neutrality being a good thing), he was talking about what people as individuals can do, I believe.
If that's the the case then I'm not following the argument. Surely as atheists you already don't teach religion to children? Who is it that needs to refuse to teach it? But perhaps Fidel can elaborate a little more.
(October 3, 2014 at 8:28 am)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: Atheism has no political machinations
Again, this makes the mistake of trying to divide beliefs from people. There are plenty of atheists who have political machinations and would seek to make society more atheist. Do people really need reminding of the great atheistic political movements of the first half of the twentieth century? The widespread enforcement of atheism by the suppression of religion was a corner-stone of both the Russian and Chinese revolutions.
