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The Ethics of Proselytizing

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Humanistheart

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The Middle said:
I do believe in respecting the laws of other countries. However, a law against my talking about and sharing my religion with other people is a law that is so wrong that I would violate it even if it were in my own country.
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So if I believed that laws against rape were unethical it would be just find for me to disregaurd them? What a lovely argument you're making.
 
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Humanistheart

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hindupridemn said:
Hindus are forbidden from prosletyzing. Doesn't that make you want to become one? :p. In India there have been problems with medical missionaries. In order to receive treatment for a disease they required conversion and if they reverted to their original religion afterward they were required to pay with interest. I follow most of the laws of the United States because I see no reason not to. But the law of God is higher than the laws of man. Sometimes it is immoral to follow the laws of man.
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More often than not the laws of 'god' are unethical. Perhaps you've never read the bible, in which god commands the genocide of enitre towns and peoples, calls for the death of wayward children, homosexuals, adulterers, the forced marriage of a rape victim to the man who raped her, etc.
 
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Humanistheart

Well-Known Member
The Middle said:
Someone trying to persuade you to follow their religion is like someone raping you? What a lovely analogy you're making.
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Oh, so now are you argueing that breaking laws for proselytizing is okay because to you it's not that bad? Or are you just avoiding saying that you'll break any laws you don't think are moral?
 
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Vile Atheist

Loud and Obnoxious
Humanistheart said:
So if I believed that laws against rape were unethical it would be just find for me to disregaurd them? What a lovely argument you're making.
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I see where you can get that, but I think it's largely implied that if you seek to break an unethical law BECAUSE it is unethical, you mean to commit an ethical act in its stead.
 
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Humanistheart

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ContentiusMaximus said:
I see where you can get that, but I think it's largely implied that if you seek to break an unethical law BECAUSE it is unethical, you mean to commit an ethical act in its stead.
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And breaking the law of another country to spread your personal religion (the example religion being one that is responcible for the death of billions no less) is ethical to you? I'd see you're point if this was, for example, the underground railroad helping slaves secape. I wouldn't put proselytizing in the ethical category however.
 
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SHANMAC

Member
Humanistheart said:
I pressume this was directed at me as I was the post above you. No, I've read nothing by Richard Dawkins, assuming that' hes the dawkins to which you refer.
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Indeed...and I didn't mean it in a bad way. This is completely off topic from the OP, but what would you say blew your hair back as far as research that undermined the Bible? Just curious.
 
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Vile Atheist

Loud and Obnoxious
And breaking the law of another country to spread your personal religion (the example religion being one that is responcible for the death of billions no less) is ethical to you? I'd see you're point if this was, for example, the underground railroad helping slaves secape. I wouldn't put proselytizing in the ethical category however.
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I mean it in the sense you mean it - like the Underground Railroad. I've already said I find proselytizing unethical.
 
Apex

Apex

Somewhere Around Nothing
Humanistheart said:
This post you listed had nothing of merrit or relevance to the thread. Should I provide a link to a dictionary so you can look up the word 'relevant'?
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The post I referenced has everything to do with your attitude and it's complete lack and any kind of logical reasoning.
 
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Humanistheart

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Apex said:
The post I referenced has everything to do with your attitude and it's complete lack and any kind of logical reasoning.
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Oh? Finding it moraly reprehencible to violate another nations laws for the sake of spreading your personal beliefs of your diety is devoid of logic to you? This says a lot about you.
 
Storm

Storm

ThrUU the Looking Glass
Humanistheart said:
Oh? Finding it moraly reprehencible to violate another nations laws for the sake of spreading your personal beliefs of your diety is devoid of logic to you? This says a lot about you.
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The post in question had nothing to do with the topic at hand, and now you're being dishonest.
 
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