RE: exempt from vaccines for religious reasons
October 15, 2010 at 8:34 pm
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2010 at 11:10 am by Anomalocaris.)
Then sterilize fundies.
Religion also undergo evolution by natural selection for traits which best enable it to grow and fester in a population. Since most people with religious beliefs inherits their parent's religious beliefs, the religions that incited the largest population increase will crowd out those which discourage excessive breeding. So after a whole the religious landscape settles down to a few large religions that tend to all advocate wanton population increase. Religions which in their strictures or in their rituals did not encourage wanton procreation tend not to get very very large and eventually sputter. It is no surprise that the Catholic church impose such strictures on birthcontrol, nor Christian looking at Muslim birthrates with such trepidation. In the very depth of their minds, they know its not about theology, but about secular birthrate.
When the Hebrews imagined their tyrant in the sky told them to go forth and multiply, they are but reflecting their own knowledge of this up onto their deity. When the carrying capacity of the land or the whole planet is reached, and religious people still breed like crazy in order to hog larger portion of the now fixed pie, people who plan their family sizes responsibly in an otherwise enlightened manner is effectively subsidizing, through their own restraint, the wanton behavior of those who still breed like rats.
Religion also undergo evolution by natural selection for traits which best enable it to grow and fester in a population. Since most people with religious beliefs inherits their parent's religious beliefs, the religions that incited the largest population increase will crowd out those which discourage excessive breeding. So after a whole the religious landscape settles down to a few large religions that tend to all advocate wanton population increase. Religions which in their strictures or in their rituals did not encourage wanton procreation tend not to get very very large and eventually sputter. It is no surprise that the Catholic church impose such strictures on birthcontrol, nor Christian looking at Muslim birthrates with such trepidation. In the very depth of their minds, they know its not about theology, but about secular birthrate.
When the Hebrews imagined their tyrant in the sky told them to go forth and multiply, they are but reflecting their own knowledge of this up onto their deity. When the carrying capacity of the land or the whole planet is reached, and religious people still breed like crazy in order to hog larger portion of the now fixed pie, people who plan their family sizes responsibly in an otherwise enlightened manner is effectively subsidizing, through their own restraint, the wanton behavior of those who still breed like rats.
