(July 18, 2020 at 12:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(July 18, 2020 at 12:44 pm)Porcupine Wrote: Sudan is making progress, then! At least on those two issues!
Whether alcohol is good or bad it shouldn't be banned. Whether Allah is real or not nobody should be forced to believe.
That’s a silly remark - no one can be ‘forced to believe’ anything. They can be cajoled into believing and they can be forced into acting as if they believe, but belief itself is voluntary.
Boru
Actually, I don't think religious rulers care if people actually believe -- only that they don't air their disbelief publicly. This keeps the religious higherarchy safely in power.
The same for supporting the government -- you can hate it, but as long as you can't say so, there will never be a movement to overthrow it.