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For some reason if people couch their hate as a religion it becomes a protected right, which is just one reason we should reverse that shit. Religion is bullshit, should be outlawed, and religious people are ignorant, abusive cowards.

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We need freedom from religion not freedom of religion

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It would solve a lot of problems though.

How about this, freedom to practice your religion, but only in private places. Like a “Don’t Say Doctrine” law

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It’s really tempting to agree to ban public displays and mention of homosexuality if we can also do so for all religion. It’s a one step backwards, two miles forward situation…

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I mean that’s what France was going for when they banned burqas, the idea was that people are free to express their religion privately but not in public. I personally think if you’re going to take people’s rights to wear a certain piece of fabric in a certain way away like that, the ends definitely don’t justify the means.

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Don’t worry, Elon Musk is doing his best to try to take away your freedom of thought.

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I kind of always thought that’s why the first amendment said there should be no national religion

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In my experience, religious institutions are ignorant, abusive cowards.

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Nah, so are the people. If people weren’t such ignorant cowards, they wouldn’t use religion as an excuse to be abusive.

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There are billions of people privately practicing/ believing their religion and not bothering you with it, while there are only a couple thousand of institutions/ powerful people using it to abuse people.

Religions should be left out of politics, but people are still allowed to say/ believe what they want in their own space. (I’m not religious btw)

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How so? I’m being serious here. What freedoms do you lose as an atheist?

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A better wording is “getting extra protections”. Corporations with religious owners have argued their way out of paying for health insurance that covers contraceptives. A high school coach can make a big show of prayer right in the middle of the field (and yes, that’s what he was doing; it wasn’t private at all) and the Supreme Court will say that’s fine. Literal torture is allowed if you call it “gay conversion therapy”

What the Satanic Temple does is turn all that around. Fine, you get all this stuff under the name of religion? Then so do we. If you think that’s ridiculous, well, yes, it is.

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I had to pledge (or at least appear to) allegiance to god and country almost every weekday morning for 12 years. I have god on my money, god on my courthouse, and god on my license plate.

We have medical advances and procedures outlawed because they deal with fetal stem cells, which is mainly a hold up on the part of religion. People also use religion to reject vaccines willy-nilly, which has a huge impact on public health.

I’m sure there’s more, this is just off the top of my head while shitposting.

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It’s one thing that it says something in a book and a totaly different to acctually act after it. If there were a non religious book that was written as long ago as a lot of religious ones and that had the same impact in the past you were still alowed to read that nowadays. But the second you actually do the stuff the Bible says no religion protection law makes it legal or right. The problem is not the book. The problem are the institutions and a few idiots.

So don’t make the mistake of generalizing everybody just because they are religious, because then you’re making the same mistake those religious idiots.

And religion shouldn’t be outlawed. That just creates a world where the people who believe in religion will have to hide their beliefs. The correct way is to stop giving Christianity special treatment and start treating them as normal people who happen to believe in something.

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But thats exactly what I said was not ok. There is a big difference between some old book saying something and people actually acting after it.

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Most religious books tell you to kill religious people, people with a different religion that is

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Most religions agree with all atheists with the exception of whatever god they happen to believe in.

I grew up in a Christian school, and they taught us how ridiculous Mormonism is – calling it a cult. Same for Jehovah’s Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists… There was a whole curriculum for it in our Bible class.

We spent months talking dog shit about all the other religions while unironically praising our own dogma. My school taught that the King James Bible is 100% literal. LOL

They even told us Catholicism is basically a cult, but it’s too big to call it one.

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If bashing other sects of your own religion as a required school activity doesn’t sum up some major of problems with Christianity, I don’t know what does.

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i remember joshua(?) book explicitly calling for the razing and cursing of the towns they conquered.

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Can they at least not use a corpse nailed to some pieces of wood as a symbol.

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It’s ok, he’s a Middle Eastern Jewish Socialist, their symbols represent Christians perfectly.

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Damn tree-nailing hippies!

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They’re just showing what they would do to other Jews if they could get away with it.

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To our Jewish comrades, I hope you have had a meaningful Yom Kippur.

To any Christians reading, why aren’t you fasting? Didn’t Jesus say not even the smallest part of law was abolished?

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I want to be stoned to death… 🌴💨

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why was same sex marriage and cannabis often legalized at the same time? because if a man lies with another man they should be stoned…

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Why would they want to be continually in the act of getting stoned when they could remain stoned?

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I don’t have a book that says so, but I’m all for throwing religious extremists off of tall buildings.

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I prefer volcanos. Less cleanup.

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Good point.

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