RE: What is your ideal world with religion?
May 28, 2015 at 5:45 am
(This post was last modified: May 28, 2015 at 5:51 am by robvalue.)
These are my opinions:
No, I would say it's literally impossible to "stop" religion, and I wouldn't try to. If religion is defined as any set of supernatural beliefs optionally including a god, how exactly could you ever stop one or more people holding such beliefs? I would never dictate to people what they can and can't believe, or talk about.
All you can work with is the law, to stamp out favouritism and keep it out of politics. Indoctrination and bogus teaching should be kept out of schools. So really, anything the state/government provides should be secular. Of course you can be taught about different religions, that is not the same as being preached to.
We should regulate organized religion so that it is accountable and taxed like a business. Religion does not require a particular building to be practiced in, so if you want to maintain one, and you are taking people's money, then you are a business. Your books should be as open as any other business. The fact that you deal in intangible products does not change this fact. If you are in fact a charity, then you can apply for charitable status like any other business.
I am not against religion per se, I am against the harm it causes. Remove that harm, and we have a good relationship.
No, I would say it's literally impossible to "stop" religion, and I wouldn't try to. If religion is defined as any set of supernatural beliefs optionally including a god, how exactly could you ever stop one or more people holding such beliefs? I would never dictate to people what they can and can't believe, or talk about.
All you can work with is the law, to stamp out favouritism and keep it out of politics. Indoctrination and bogus teaching should be kept out of schools. So really, anything the state/government provides should be secular. Of course you can be taught about different religions, that is not the same as being preached to.
We should regulate organized religion so that it is accountable and taxed like a business. Religion does not require a particular building to be practiced in, so if you want to maintain one, and you are taking people's money, then you are a business. Your books should be as open as any other business. The fact that you deal in intangible products does not change this fact. If you are in fact a charity, then you can apply for charitable status like any other business.
I am not against religion per se, I am against the harm it causes. Remove that harm, and we have a good relationship.
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