RE: If You Ruled Your Own Country, Would You Ban Religion?
April 29, 2015 at 4:24 pm
(This post was last modified: April 29, 2015 at 4:56 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
Quote:Wait, can I change my answer to Orwellian abomination? After all, they are now developing the technology so that we can have something even more Orwellian than even George Orwell dreamed of:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mind-reading-technology-speeds-ahead/
Once that is perfected, just think what governments are going to do with it....
A very sharp double-edged sword, there. It would make it very easy to insert disinformation into the intelligence stream.
(April 29, 2015 at 4:24 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I know I'm sounding like a broken record here...
Putting churches on the same rules as other tax-exempt organizations OR removing their tax-exempt status if they want their private perks is something I'm okay with.
I just don't see how you can ban churches. A home that is used for congregations is a church. Unless your new hypothetical government is going to write down everything that stipulates a 'church' and then monitor everyone's 'home' so it doesn't cross into the 'church' territory, I don't see how it's possible, let alone effective or ethical.
I interpreted "ban churches" as in the Catholic Church or the Lutheran Church, for example -- i.e., as a corporation.
If people want to pitch their money together and build a building and adorn it with crosses that's their business. My hypothetical government wouldn't legally recognize those associations, any more than my government would recognize Thelma Lou's Knitting Society.
I wouldn't ban them, per se, but they would not exist as legal entities.
