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Democracy should guarantee freedom from religion in the public forum.
Not freedom of it.
Religion is a personal choice and should be kept
in your personal residence.
jmo shoot me if you really feel the need.
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So I assume by that you'd refuse religions the right to peaceful assembly right? Maybe make wearing a crucifix or a star of david in public a crime? This whole Skybird concept of forcing folks he doesn't like to keep out his eyesight is as wrong as the worst of organized religions excesses, imo of course. |
Nope just saying it should be at your house |
But neither of our houses are in the public forum Mush.
To achieve your desire for "freedom from religion in the public forum" that means no Yalmukas or Tilakas or Crucifixes or Sikh turbans allowed to be worn in public. Churches, mosques, temples, either banned out right or at very least stripped of all outside markings and closed to public access. No religious festivals like our local favorite the Feast of St. Rocco, no Christmas lights...
You just cannot erase all sign of religion from the public eye and, imo, to try to do so is to go against the wishes of the great majority of people on this planet. |
Not to touch on it too much but consider........
all things evolve road systems shopping malls spiders planets stars
the only necessary ingredient is time.
So as with moralities evolving from middle eastern villages to Gene therapy
clinics, so also will likely, the organizations that are "Churches" or religions.
So "The Church's" will likely someday take a lesson from buisness anyway
and convert there assets to higher margined diversified funds while they
give up their properties eventually of their own volition and start outsourcing their facilities, for all the advantages that represents.
sooner or later you will just rent the local mega dome every sunday
because its cheaper than building st peters. the architechturaly fashionable Catherdral/Mosque/temple Built for glorification, will in the far future yeild
to the needs of go forth and multiply.
assuming we figure out the food thing :rotfl:
[edit] I feel in someways that would be sad
some of the most beautiful buildings Ive ever
seen were built for that purpose.