A question for Atheists would you ban or outlaw Religion if

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If I pretend to kill you, you're still gonna end up hurt.

Pretence or actually foolishness, if the religious want to separate from the Atheists, let 'em. However, I will not budge from my home because a bunch of pompous arses in robes show up and tell me their nonsense dictates I must leave. I don't see why I should have to run from a bunch of ignorant fools that will likely be proven wrong in the end anyway.

Where would you put all of the religious?

Saying your an Atheist says you are an outsider to religion. People suddenly think you have moral deficits. They think religion is perfect and they'd rather you be an Atheist so they know who you are, so they will use social pretense on you depending on how naive they are to let you think they respect your choice... Actually they do respect your choice, it is a benefit for them. What they don't respect is you. So yes, it suits them to be tolerant because they can weed you out and make assumption of you that may or may not be true. Too often we subscribe to the social pretense that we are presented with in order to feel like we are part of something bigger. Too often that says the wrong things about us and we don't even understand how. So people can assume the worst of you. Christian to Christian or religious to religious though, they know what each other are saying and know the truth of their religion and how to express that they know. So we never even really know them. We are ignorantly isolated from the rest of our fellow man because of this thing called religion. So as there are so few atheists and those who are atheist often subscribe to a form of atheism that is created by people in support of religion... Atheist living is currently a farce and no different than having a religion. I don't want to support religion. I want my dissent known and I feel that no one should have to learn something in childhood that will be used to make them ignorant in adulthood. Nothing should be taught as a way to make people more ignorant. We are all better off if there aren't ignorant people. We are all better off not believing people are more ignorant than they are. We are all better off when we can communicate and be understood by everyone. Not having this means not really having that freedom we cherish so much. It means no one died for you... So the very people who believe someone died for them at the core of their hearts are the people who are dieing for us. How ironic. It's unsettling to me.

A question for Atheists would you ban or outlaw Religion if you could ?

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Extermination camps.

Religion has never been the problem. I would ban fundamentalism. On the other hand, relatively organized, moderated versions of religion are not the source of the problem. Some of them, like the LDS Mormons, can be a nuisance toward certain minorities, but they do not act with the unrestrained, unmoderated viciousness and spite of fundamentalist Christians of the ultra-charismatic stripe.

Pentacostals in Middle America are not joking when they talk about a "spiritual war," but they are a growing terrorist threat that we have been ignoring. When they can no longer get their agenda into mainstream politics, they will resort to violence. It is not an if/maybe thing: when they have realized that they no longer rule the roost, they are going to become militant and dangerous, and nothing is being done to prepare for it or to hedge against it. We are going to have the same problem that Central Asia has, which is relatively level-headed religious people and the odd atheist having to contend with a menace to society that is determined to destroy everything they can because they think that it might summon their messiah for them to do so. It's going to get worse.

But no, I would not outright ban religion, just fundamentalism.

Extermination camps.

Apparently anti-religion is your religion.

Shame on you. Why would you harm Amish folk. They are quiet, peaceable, law abiding and generally harmless to the populations in which they live.

ruveyn

You still don't understand. If you can't see through religion, you being harmed by it. You need to take a closer look. If you have any questions PM me.

Apparently anti-religion is your religion.

Shame on you. Why would you harm Amish folk. They are quiet, peaceable, law abiding and generally harmless to the populations in which they live.

ruveyn

The Amish are an example of why one can't really go against *every* religion. I've met several Amish families, and they've all been wonderful people. I don't think any one whose met them could say any wrongs about them.

Taking away the religion would not resolve the root problem of poor habits of thinking. Taking away an anthropomorphic deity wouldn't cure the vanity out of which it grows. Taking away the soul would not do the work of training people to distinguish between abstract constructs and concrete reality. If you were to take away the Torah, people would just turn to another source of easy, pithy answers when confronted with a moral dilemma.

Sloth, vanity, sloppiness and cowardice are the root problems associated with religious fundamentalism. If you were to eliminate those problems, religion as it remained would be relatively manageable. Trying to eliminate religion is a waste of resources. As soon as you were to cut off one head, another would take its place. The real monster is something else entirely.

The only viable method of eliminating the harm that seems to be associated with religion is to try to educate people in the dangers of cutting corners in their reasoning or allowing their reasoning to be directed by base motives. It's the only way.

Well, aside from the systemic abuse and brain-washing of their children, but that's less a symptom of them being Amish and more a symptom of communities nestled away in rural areas on general.

at least they urge their youngsters to experience life outside their religion before they chose.

Well, aside from the systemic abuse and brain-washing of their children, but that's less a symptom of them being Amish and more a symptom of communities nestled away in rural areas on general.