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Old 05-22-2007, 09:12 PM   #21
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Default Re: Church and State

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Originally Posted by sgkoneko View Post
Religious people tend to take their religious beliefs into their opinions and judgements.
Non-religious people bring their non-religious beliefs and opinions into their judgement. You're doing it right now, and do so quite egregiously in the remainder of your post. Stones->Glass houses.

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Imagine if a radical muslim got into office. It's their political belief that people should die so they can go to heaven. Is that good for this country?
Last I checked, you need to campaign to be elected anything. Generally when you campaign you are required to describe your platform, and your beliefs on a variety of important topics of the day. If someone ran fro president on the platform of "Kill the infidel, Martyrs are good, Women must go covered head to toe, and if you steal, I'll chop your hand off" Pardon me for saying that I really don't think America is going to elect such a person.

And if someone manages to successfully "Fake" a legitimate platform enough to get elected, if they then started trying to act in some absurd way, they would suffer a vote of no-confidence and be impeached.

You're trying to point to an absurd extreme end that has no business being brought up in a reasonable discussion of the situation.

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Agnostics, not atheists, are fairly balanced people or people who don't care about religion, they will base thier judgements on the actions of people around them and life experience, not what their religion says.
Actually that's quite untrue. I'd say a good number of people who call themselves agnostics don't even actually know what agnosticism entails, and even if we assume they all do, how does a -belief- that questions of metaphysics and religion are inherantly unknowable by humanity somehow automatically mean that they are "fairly balanced"?

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Atheists are not a good choice either, because quite frankly atheism is a religion whether they want to admit it or not. They *believe* their is no God. They are a group of people with a belief. They have organization, they are a religion.
Atheism is not a religion. Simply having a belief in something (In this case, that there is no evidence for the existence of the divine) make them a religion? I believe all kinds of things, does that mean I have a religion based on my belief that gravity is a universal constant? Do I have a religion based on the fact that I think broccoli is gross? Of course not.

Simply "believing" something doesn't make it a religion. Also...I'm unaware of the existence of a "Church of Atheism" organisation to which all atheists belong. Last I checked, when you don't believe in the divine, you tend not to see the point in gathering together all the people who share that thought to...what? Stand around and go "Yup...no God..."

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Plus atheists would probably outlaw religion.
I have no idea where you get this idea from, but wow...that's a pretty stunning misrepresentation of atheism. I'd say that more religions would be outlawed by other religions than would be outlawed by atheists.
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