Fuck God. Working together to navigate life's challenges is difficult enough without having to contend with those laden with superstitious bullshit. I would love to let people have their beliefs, but it's rare that people don't also want me to be shackled by the dicta of their favorite ancient control freak ignoramus for no other reason than 'God' said so.
Want to believe in a creation myth? I'm perfectly fine to let you wallow in your ignorance, no skin off my ass, but those that try to shoehorn this nonsense into science curricula deserve to be vociferously challenged. Attempting to use the legislative process to use the power of the state to enforce some God given deontological morality that doesn't have a substantive secular argument will also bring about a swift and unfavorable reaction. Don't tell me what I can and can't do just because someones interpretation of an ancient book says so, it must satisfy the doctrine of religious restraint; or as Rawls suggested one cannot only appeal to religious justification, but must also justify coercive law with secular reasoning.
Want to believe in a creation myth? I'm perfectly fine to let you wallow in your ignorance, no skin off my ass, but those that try to shoehorn this nonsense into science curricula deserve to be vociferously challenged. Attempting to use the legislative process to use the power of the state to enforce some God given deontological morality that doesn't have a substantive secular argument will also bring about a swift and unfavorable reaction. Don't tell me what I can and can't do just because someones interpretation of an ancient book says so, it must satisfy the doctrine of religious restraint; or as Rawls suggested one cannot only appeal to religious justification, but must also justify coercive law with secular reasoning.
