(May 18, 2015 at 2:40 am)robvalue Wrote: ... it boggles my mind that some theists think they have the right to dictate how the legal contract should operate among people who share none of their religious beliefs.
Many are fascists. Think about Europe in the middle ages, when the Catholic Church was dominant. They wanted to control pretty much everything that everyone did. The Inquisition gives one an idea of how far they were willing to go to force people to do as the Church told them.
We see the same sort of thing in some Muslim countries today, where some religionists want to control pretty much everything that everyone does.
It seems quite natural to religion to be fascist. And we see that in this issue of gay marriage, with religionists wanting to control other people in their private lives.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
