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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING
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To: Neocon who wrote (321)3/1/2002 8:30:50 AM
From: thames_sider  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
There is as much or more reason to respect and give privileges to the various religions as to subsidize museums or symphonies or charities...

I missed this - and I absolutely disagree.
I can learn from a museum, and see how others learn and grow.
A symphony can be a thing of incredible beauty (although I wouldn't subsidise most since about 1905), one of the finest works of human creativity.
A charity helps others, or works to alleviate some social or environmental ill.

A religion does none of the above (or it can - but all are better done by secular bodies). Instead it might fund anti-scientific actions and anti-progressive laws - I'm glad to live in a country where my children may learn about evolution, and have healthier lives from stem-cell-based treatments, and not be kept endlessly pregnant to meet some ancient mumbo-jumbo.
Or religions fund anti-Western schools: and inculcate the gullible into fanatical murderous hatred of non-believers.
Or religions campaign for segregation, and that people who are different are evil, or less than human, or damned and forever full of sin.
Or religions simply perpetuate the plutocracy, the aristocracy, the rule of non-elected, meritless nothings becasue of the positions of their forebears.

Subsidise this? it should be taxed like any other harmful stupidity.
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