Posted: Feb 11, 2011 11:37 am
Lion IRC wrote:Hi Davian,
Yes you can take religion for a test drive.
Thats the beauty of it - its voluntary. Nobody can force you. Nobody can stop you.
Except if you live in an Islamic theocracy, where apostasy or blasphemy is rewarded by the death penalty, sometimes even if you're not a citizen of that country. If you live in the UK, unelected Bishops decide on laws that effect every you and every other citizen's life such as for example, vetoing humane euthanasia legislation because of their creepy taboo morality. If you live in Ireland, you'll know the catholic church has more or less dictated authoritarian social policies for centuries - contraception was only made legal only pretty recently, and it's still behind the rest of Europe when it comes to other birth control laws. If you live in Northern Ireland, you'll know that the largest political party is a fundamentalist Christian one, who abuse their power to try and force creationist nonsense into schools and museums, attack homosexuals, and collude with the other Christian parties to absurdly block birth control measures. And I haven't even mentioned the publically funded state faith schools scandal that is such a obscenely theocratic feature of countries like the Britain, Ireland other European countries. I could go on. What if you're unfortunate to be born to seriously religious, or even casually religious parents, won't they impose religion on you? How many innocent babies are baptised each year? Aren't children coerced into going to religious ceremonies virtually every week if they were born to a religious family?
You haven't a leg to stand on here, you surely know that religion is rammed down the throats of billions of people day after day. I can only presume, as I've before reading your posts, that you don't actually mean what you write.