Why?

[SciFiBoy]

MontanaHatchet said:

SciFiBoy said:

MontanaHatchet said:

SciFiBoy said:

my point is that, until we can prove that a religons beliefs are factual, we cant give them any more credence than someone who thinks dragons are real.

i dont understand what youre saying? democracy and religon are not the same thing?

I'm not going to bother with you anymore. You're not even trying.

what?

you compared a belief system to a system of government, i understand them to be different things.

I know. It's like you looked at the comparison but then didn't stop to think what I was comparing. And it's like you skimmed over a couple of words of my post and didn't read the rest. I'm going to post this one more time before I lose my patience and am forced to insult you.

The reason religion is a valid belief system is because it has deep roots in history and society. Things like government are also only beliefs. We perceive democracy, and make it a part of our society. We also perceive currency to be valuable, even though a dollar isn't actually worth a dollar in paper. Because of this, our entire civilization is built on what we believe. A belief system based on fairies and dragons wouldn't be protected because it's not an actual belief system. If it was an organized religion with branches in many different countries and hundreds of thousands if not millions of followers, perhaps it would be protected under the laws of a select handful of countries.

@ bolded - do i even need to tell you the flaws behind that argument?

i get what youre trying to say with the rest of the post though, you think that religon should get stuff because its a concept, ok, i dont, i guess thats the debate here, what does and dosent deserve laws to protect it, id say democracy does as we need some form of government, but religon dosent, because we dont need it to function as a society, infact, i could argue that religon is conter productive to a fair society.