How many of you would punish religious people for being religious?

[Ahriman]

Yes, it means (bold) as well as physical punishment and torture.

You are a twit.

Why?

[Mister Agenda]

Would you punish/torment religious people, if you could? How far does your disdain for religion go?

There are atheists on the Internet who say that raising a child with religion is child abuse. 

Child abuse is illegal. 

So if they're serious in what they say, and not just talking shit for effect, then they advocate the involvement of the government (like Child Family Services) to intervene with, if not punish, religious parents.

Thinking that something is abusive and wrong and that no one should do it does not equal 'advocates making it a crime'.

There are people who think spanking is child abuse; but that doesn't imply that they think spanking should be illegal. It's just their opinion that spanking is child abuse, their opinion doesn't make it illegal. And it doesn't imply that they think it SHOULD be illegal...maybe they think the police state required to make sure no child in the country is ever spanked would be worse than the problem its aimed at solving. Maybe they think the issue should be addressed with education because they recognize that parenting is hard and the only model most people have to go by is how they were raised themselves and arresting people for swatting their kids is an overreaction under those circumstances. Maybe they think spanking, while unfortunate and wrong, is not a sufficient reason to separate a child from their parents, as would happen if it were illegal. Maybe, though they think children should never be spanked, they think only spankings over a certain level of severity should be addressed by the authorities, to discourage spankings without having to frequently separate children from their parents or implement a police state.

And none of those positions amounts to 'just talking shit for effect'.

[abaris]

Yes, it means (bold) as well as physical punishment and torture.

I have troubles imagining anyone being serious saying something like this. But if serious, the only necessary answer is one word: Disgusting.

[Ahriman]

Yes, it means (bold) as well as physical punishment and torture.

I have troubles imagining anyone being serious saying something like this. But if serious, the only necessary answer is one word: Disgusting.

Oh it gets worse, baby.

[HappySkeptic]

Hard to make the distinction without deeper knowledge, given the avatar.

He's been posting here for months.

Some of us pay attention to other members and learn about them.

Bel isn't exactly a newby either.

I'm not Harley Quinn...others here aren't cats or dogs and Brian 37 certainly isn't ABBA.

Shut up, by the way.  You are a bigger pompous ass than Bel is.

I'm definitely David Tennant

[Anomalocaris]

I am of the opinion that religious person punish themselves enough by wasting the live they have in pointless devotion to an afterlife, which, when they arrive at it, will tear away its own veil to reveal to them all that they sacrificed in anticipation of gaining is nothing.

[abaris]

I am of the opinion that religious person punish themselves enough by wasting the live they have in pointless devotion to an afterlife, which, when they arrive at it, will tear away its own veil to reveal to them all that they sacrificed in anticipation of gaining is nothing.

They won't know, just like the rest of us. If there's nothing after death, there's nothing for all of us. Believers as well as disbelievers. Before we were born, there was nothing and after we die there will be nothing.

[Ahriman]

I am of the opinion that religious person punish themselves enough by wasting the live they have in pointless devotion to an afterlife, which, when they arrive at it, will tear away its own veil to reveal to them all that they sacrificed in anticipation of gaining is nothing.

They won't know, just like the rest of us. If there's nothing after death, there's nothing for all of us. Believers as well as disbelievers. Before we were born, there was nothing and after we die there will be nothing.

Yeahhh you don't know that.

[The Grand Nudger]

Here we go again, a man who makes it a point to know nothing tells others what they do or don't know..as though he knows that.

[zebo-the-fat]

They won't know, just like the rest of us. If there's nothing after death, there's nothing for all of us. Believers as well as disbelievers. Before we were born, there was nothing and after we die there will be nothing.

Yeahhh you don't know that.

As I have said before... you can either be alive or dead... 200 years ago I wasn't alive, so I must have been dead, in another 200 years I will also be dead... why would one be different from the other?