A question for Atheists would you ban or outlaw Religion if

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Way too limited if you ask me... Check my earlier post that is a much better basis for government.

I wouldn't if I had that kind of power, no, but I wouldn't be devastated if someone else made that decision for my people.

Rather it should read that if you make any claim that your religion can heal in and of itself and not with medical treatment or conspiracy to pay your medical bills... what a difficult argument this is to make it's almost as if in order to argue against religion, one has to argue with a sociopath. Nothing you say can have any effect on religion because religion says so... it's so fricken arrogant! Ok, let's try this again. Tests must be done in order to prove the efficacy of any claim made by religion or it may not be written. Jesus came back from the dead? Prove it! God can heal with magic and doesn't need human medicine? Prove it! It's amazing how short the bible would be if all of the statements about miracles had to be proven! Surely an all powerful God could do that sort of thing, right? Proof would be easy! All he'd have to do is say poof! and there would be proof! The claims of religion to affect disease must be evaluated by the FDA in the same manner as any other drug and compared with the efficacy of Atheism as a control.

Religion must also be banned from causing any disease to another person.

However in order to do this, religion pretty much has to be banned. Please don't take this as a replacement for my previous separated society... That is what I want, but for the regulation of religion on the religious side, they need to have rules and can't say what doesn't happen and can't conspire against citizens as this is criminal behavior.

No.

But the horrible amount of money spent into science and critical thinking education will probably make religion fade away.

Sadly this is not a hopeful statement... religion is more than just a bunch of idiots... it's a group of conspirators that has gotten way to big and overpowering. A safety zone must be established for those who wish to escape it.

I'd be willing to accept all religions as long as they agree to take on one additional commandment: "Keep Thy Religion To Thyself."
RIP George Carlin.

I am one of the few religious people that do keep thy religion to thyself.

No.

But i'd take away their tax exempt status at the drop of a political or policy suggestion.

Consider it suggested.

The religoious community do pay taxes if your talking about churches not getting taxed is because a church is not a business but a place of whorship.

Well I think they should be taxed of course but the govermenent doesn't view them as a busniess but we do get taxed on things like electricity bill ect the church meembers do get taxed by the organization we give willingly to the church and every year the church pays a lot back in taxes to its coummunity saying we do not get taxed is not true we do at the end of the year.

No, I would not ban religion if I ran the government. People should be able to pursue religion if they want to. Besides, it has been tried, and has only succeeded in driving it underground.

Hopefully, all people will eventually evolve beyond "belief without reason." Government can not, nor should not attempt to mandate this evolution.

Other posts in this thread have effectively dealt with the notion that the USA was established as some sort of Theocracy.

On the tax question, I would say that those parts of Church activity which are charitable should not be taxed. The rest should be taxed.

Even considering that was true it would still be a fallacy.

There are way more mentions on the bible to the sanctity of a marriage and how marriages are a lifetime commitment. If you are going to use the bible argument you should first make sure that divorces are made illegal since its doing a bigger harm on what the bible teaches.

Since I havent seen any christian asking to ban divorces I call bs on this religious stance on same sex marriage
(Not encouraging anyone to do this just pointing out the double standard thats used with the religious stance on gay marriage/divorce)

Absolutely not. I would not in any way interfere with religion privately practiced. All of us, regardless of what religion we have or do not have construct some kind of thought and value system which defines (for each of us) our place in the Cosmos. It is a human thing. All humans with working brains do it to some extent or other. Since this kind of "religion" is subjective, it behooves us not to impose it on others in an obnoxious or harmful fashion. So if people very quietly practice their religion at home or in church (in a way that does not disturb the peace), I have no issues or problems with it at all.

Look at it this way: I would not want someone else to interfere with the way I think or look at the world. Therefore I do not interfere with others.

ruveyn

No, I would set up a secular state (I'm American).

Even then, Albania was the only Communist country to ban religion (from 1967-1990).