baph7667 on 10 February 2013
| Jon-Erich said: So how would this make us any different than a Communist country? Or, we would basically be like the exact opposite of a Theocratic nation like Iran. Instead of being a nation based on religion, we would be a nation based on atheism. Yet, we would oppress those who chose to believe in something, just like Iran. Also, forget for one second that the only world religions people seem to think about are Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. What about the Buddhists who care only about self improvement and self enlightenment and who never harmed anybody? What about a lot of the Neo Pagans you now see in this country who pose no threat? Should the government really be given the power to tell these people they can't practice their faith? While I I agree that religious fanaticism has always been a problem and still remains to be a problem, you aren't going to solve the world's problems by banning religion. In fact, usually the fanaticism comes not from the religion itself, but instead the problems that society already has that leads to fanaticism. Also, the last thing we need is for the government to be taking away more rights than what we've lost over the last decade. Wasn't the Patriot Act bad enough? Wasn't the decision by both Congress and Obama Administration to more or less say fuck you to the 4th amendment enough? I think Americans should be fighting for their rights instead of fighting to have them taken away. |
We wouldn't oppress them we would just hopefully try to educate them enough so that they would quit believing in their magical fable that denies basic rights to others like preventing gays from having the right to get married, women from having the final say so over their own bodies, and to try to get along in the world properly by giving up their highly devisive quarrels with people of other faiths that are bad for the world at large so they don't get the chance to live out their apocalyptic end times fantasy.
