Posted by special_k on April 14, 2006, at 20:43:57
In reply to This is old, but I find many haven't heard of it., posted by TexasChic on April 13, 2006, at 19:21:08
personally...
i think religion should be a private matter and i'd rather see LESS of it (ie pull the 10 commandments too) rather than MORE of it.
there are too many religions in the world to display icons etc of all of them.
besides which... i thought the freedom state from church was one of those things we were proud of and thought was a good thing like the freedom of women to vote like the freedom from slavery and so on.
or maybe... i'm talking a different part of the world (England and her colonies i guess)...
re: what counts as a religion...
i could be wrong i could be wrong...
but i thought that it was fairly borderline whether paganism / witchcraft counted as a religion or not... i mean... there aren't any gods (to the best of my knowledge) and people worship nature...
i don't know.
i've heeard somebody or other claim 'mechanism' as a religion. i don't think that counts as a religion... it is more the thought that the world is made up of lots of mechanisms.
i dunno.
funnily enough... i'd have more sympathy with it being publicised etc if it WASn'T a religion.
But no...
Freedom FROM religion I say...
poster:special_k
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