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EDIT: You can skip everything I wrote here. My question is this, why should we give people the right to belive in things that dont make sense?




And now my post.

When you really think about it, to enshrine that people have a right to controlled by a belife that defies logic seems kind of odd. To put it another way, you have the right to reject truth and science.

Why would we as a society think this a worthwhile idea to enshrine into the very fundamental documents of our goverments.

You have the right to be stupid?

In multiculturalism we talk about a persons right to their cultural heritage. This makes much more sense to me. You dont get to choose the culture of your birth any more then you get to choose your race, sexual orientation and gender. What you do choose however is your religion.

When we enshrine religious rights into our laws, we make it allright for people to descriminate agianst others becuase their religion says so. We alow large amounts of mony and time to be spent creating hostile attitudes and intolerence. We hurt science and we keep our societies from moving forward based on sounds rational thinking. When we enshrine religion as a right it puts pressure on those who would take a rational eye and call a faith the load of horse s**t it is, to keep thier mouths shut less they be accused of intolerence.

Im not saying faith should be illegal. But when a group brings it memebers to commit mass suicide, when they bring someone to kill doctors, when they preform fake medicine all the while allowing their patients die, these religions should be held just acountable as any other group.

What do you think?

Is religion an important enough thing to be made a human right?

Hi! mrgreen

Yes they should be held accountable for whatever they do, despite what they think is right based on what their religion tells them. Yes, it is and should be everyones right to participate or not participate in their own religions but it is not their right to harm another human being. And yeah, I am confuzzled.

Not all religions reject "truth" and science.

You need to learn how to type in complete sentences. We think it important because you have a right to think whatever you want here. That was the whole point.

You sure do.

Religion is often part of culture.

You need to expand your vocabulary. Did you just learn this word or something? No we don't. We allow them to think whatever they want. If a certain type of discrimination is illegal, then religion doesn't matter. People can do whatever they want with their money and their time. You mean "sound" rational thinking? Four times is enough really, you can retire this word now. Are you kidding? Calling religion bullshit is so vogue right now.

You mean criminals should be punished for breaking laws? Wow, that's innovative.

I think you're biased and bigoted.

But thats the thing. They do get involved. They love to get involved, becuase they are guided by a belife in a falsehood that tells them what is right and what is wrong.

And yes, the actions I described are carried out by a small "cults" as it were, but its the moderates who feed them. Its the moderates you like to sit on the fence and give the impression of the falsehood being correct.

We are entitled to our right to believe what we want how we want, But we must however abied by the set laws of the land. That mean No human sacrifice, no enslavement of minorities, or legal supiriority of another due to religouse believes and status. A christian must be treated equal to a wiccan, or Muslim or any other person of diffrent belief. Each religion is equaly limited to what the legaly can and can not do.

you have a very good point we should havethe freedom of religon except for those that dun make sense. So we should but we shouldn't.

People have the right to believe in whatever they want. If they believe that one huge spork imploded to form the universe and we're all really little sporks in disguise, let them think that. People DO have the right to be stupid. people have the right to think whatever they want to think, and that's part of the nature of America. Land of the free. Not land of the free-as-long-as-it-makes-sense.