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Originally Posted by rkzenrage
Religion? Please tell me how something that has no belief in anything supernatural, an afterlife or set dogma is a religion to anyone but a government for designation purposes?
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Who says those are the qualifications for religion? A lot of people worship things or concepts without those qualifications, and feel their's is valid religion.
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I agree, the above was a poor choice of words on my part... thank you for pointing that out for me. I recant that statement.
However, one is far harder pressed to change being a rational thinker than someone who chooses to believe in something with no evidence.
Being someone who is only 3% of a population where the opposition is represented by everyone, but one, in the House and Senate, the Judicial branch and all of the Executive branch (God talks to our illustrious leader, whooooo!) and is the most powerful lobby while laws in many states still keep you from holding office does smack of that word or, at least, institutionalized marginalization.
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Get real, most of those scumbags in Washington only affiliate themselves with any religion, to get elected. You can't possibly be naive enough to think religion plays any part in their day to day behavior.
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Hate? I don't hate anyone, I dislike certain ideas being pushed on children, I dislike any break in the separation of church and state... I hate no one.
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When you broad brush religion, you're painting billions of people outside the US, that have nothing to do with church and state.