muhly22222
Posts: 463
Joined: 3/25/2010 Status: offline
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: itsSIRtou quote:
ORIGINAL: JeffBC quote:
ORIGINAL: farglebargle Seriously? A bunch of unhinged religious nuts want to impose their version of Sharia Law on y'all and you accept that shit? Yes, I do. I call that "living in a society with other people" and an important part of democracy. religion is NOT a part of a democracy..... that's why almost every Theocracy has imploded over the last 500 or so years. u want the USA to do the same do u? then let the "unhinged religious nuts " he mentioned run things for even a short bit of time..... for any excuse.... this very sexual forum and freedom to express anything sexual on it would be gone in a cough, and that would just be the start of the elimination of basic freedoms. ur sexual life would become their business even though even though supposedly they want less government imposition on ur life.... go figure that one. what is good for the "unhinged religious nuts" is NEVER what's good for everyone else in ANY society, just what good for that religion. and u have plenty of history to look back at to see THAT fact. ...u have the freedom to be OF a religion,.... and that's where it should (and does) stop. How is religion not a part of a democracy? Let's say that I'm devoutly Catholic, and I truly believe that abortion is taking the life of an innocent and yet-to-be-born living thing (I'm not making the argument for or against that viewpoint right now). Am I supposed to put aside my religious convictions when I vote? Am I supposed to say "Well, this is what I believe is the morally right thing, but that's a religious feeling, so never mind"? Of course not. Religion has always been and will always be a part (and a significant part) of any democracy, for the simple reason that a significant number of people are and will be religious, and those beliefs define their moral code, which they then use in deciding for whom to vote. Are there people who take it too far? Of course there are, both from the religious wing of the right and from the atheist wing of the left. Again, that's a democracy.
_____________________________
I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. -Woodrow Wilson
|