Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Using the courts to mandate parents take their sick children to the doctor is not using bombs, it is using your sanity and reason. I didn't even mention bombs, I mentioned reigning in this hyper-inflated notion of "religious freedom" that is trying to allow the religious right to run amok. Like all the other freedoms guaranteed by the First, we need to realize and accept that even freedom of religion must have its limits.
In many areas, it does need suppressed. Religion must be removed from science and suppressed. It must be suppressed where it would repress and oppress others. It must be suppressed where it would strip others of their rights and choices. It must be suppressed when it would take the place of sanity and reason. Ultimately, we do not have time to change the minds of those who believe god will save us from global warming, or is going to burn up everything anyways so we shouldn't do anything about it at all. While we try to use words, Christian Conservatives are using words to lead LBGT youth down a path of depression, anxiety, social difficulties, and suicide. While we are spending time trying to teach and change minds, America will fall further academically behind because we can't even teach proper science as science and not confuse religious mythos as science fact.
Ultimately, the more we deny the horrors and sheer inhumanity that some religions teach, as a part of their sacred texts/books, the harder of a time we are going to have getting things under control, making more drastic and extreme measures more likely to be done. There is a reason we say someone is more "Liberal" when it comes to their religion, and when someone is "Conservative." The religious Liberals we tend to like more, but the Conservatives tend to take what their book says more seriously. It is in the OT to kill those who worship other gods as well as your rebellious kids, and the NT to kill those who "don't want me to reign over them" as well as homosexuals. Now, we don't think of it this way, but those "freedoms to freely practice/worship their religion" obviously have restrictions against them and will not hold as a legal defense. But it is suppressed in this regard, it's past-time we acknowledge that it must be restrained and suppressed in many more areas (with a general condemnation of anything and everything that teaches to kill non-believers/infidels).
It's just time we acknowledge and realize religion is a very explosive, very dangerous, and highly volatile subject. After all, people will arm themselves against corrupt human regimes, but they are so very often just unwilling to question or challenge god. We need to arm everyone, mentally, to question religion and god out of existence, not coddle to those beliefs that are making life a living hell for so many.
