3 things about banning religion:
1. It could only be done in the context of a totalitarian state. The USSR, Maoist China, The Khmer Rouge all did their best to eradicate religion. Do you really want to live in a society like that?
2. It doesn't work- persecution can even make religion prosper. After 70-odd years of official atheism, enforced with brutal rigour, Russia emerged with roughly 2/3 of the population being orthodox christian.
3. Even if it did work, the outcome would imo be undesirable. I'd like to live in a world where people are atheists because they've looked at the options, thought stuff through, and made up their own minds. I don't want to live in a world in which state propaganda has brainwashed people into being atheists.
1. It could only be done in the context of a totalitarian state. The USSR, Maoist China, The Khmer Rouge all did their best to eradicate religion. Do you really want to live in a society like that?
2. It doesn't work- persecution can even make religion prosper. After 70-odd years of official atheism, enforced with brutal rigour, Russia emerged with roughly 2/3 of the population being orthodox christian.
3. Even if it did work, the outcome would imo be undesirable. I'd like to live in a world where people are atheists because they've looked at the options, thought stuff through, and made up their own minds. I don't want to live in a world in which state propaganda has brainwashed people into being atheists.
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
Mikhail Bakunin
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mikhail Bakunin
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything
Friedrich Nietzsche
