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(06-27-2017, 03:36 PM)eppie Wrote: Sweden is also one of the countries that discriminates atheists (I guess you didn't knew that?). Everyone pays an extra amoutn of tax to the church. Only of you undertake a series of actions you can get id of this extra taxation.
Which has more to do with the lack of a separation between church and state. Historically Sweden's monarchy used the Lutheran church as a mechanism for tracking parish migration, and for census, and taxation. FYI -- they also discriminated against non-Lutherans, which is a reason some of my ancestors came to the US. The church also routinely gave a Household Examination, which was a catechism test. If you failed it you were limited in your profession. But, on the upside it forced the population to be literate.

Quote:To me religious education is child abuse. And I don't mean educate kids about different views on how the world works, but I mean telling kids God exists and what he can do to you and what they have to do for him.
This is one of the most ridiculous things you've uttered. Cite any psychological study supporting your belief.

Here's some relaying the opposite, or in that the more affiliated you are with an organized religion, the fewer antisocial behavior is evident.

http://youthandreligion.nd.edu/research-findings/


Quote:With all the extremism it would have been a no brainer to stop subsidizing muslim (extreme) schools in teh Netherlands.....but I guess you understand who are against this? The christians......they of course see that you can subsidize schools teaching about one god and not subsidize schools teaching about another.
(another discrimination in the Netherlands.....religious schools can without giving good reasons choose not to accept a child (they can just say that the views of their parents don't fit with the school) normal schools are not allowed to do this, which of course leads to them ending up with all the difficult kids)
Mind you: the Netherlands is in the top three of countries with least discimination against atheists.
What makes sense sociologically for any creed, or even atheists, is to prohibit any exhortation to commit violent acts. For me, that includes many things secular society considers main stream, like euthanasia or capital punishment.

Quote:This is why I always get a rash if I hear americans talk about their /freedom of religion.....it is for religious people somehow very difficult to understand when they are discriminating.
I always get a rash when Europeans mistake our 1st amendment as freedom from religion. What it proscribes is government preference of any creed, or interference with a person freedom of thought. It is supposed to prevent the government from involvement with an individual's practice or not of their chosen faith.
”There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio.

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This sounds like a great idea! - by Ashock - 06-16-2017, 10:54 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by DeeBye - 06-17-2017, 03:44 AM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by eppie - 06-18-2017, 02:31 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Tal - 06-19-2017, 01:18 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Ashock - 06-19-2017, 05:12 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Lissa - 06-19-2017, 05:36 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Ashock - 06-19-2017, 06:56 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Lissa - 06-19-2017, 08:11 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Ashock - 06-19-2017, 08:40 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Ashock - 06-19-2017, 10:50 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Ashock - 06-20-2017, 06:28 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Lissa - 06-20-2017, 01:57 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Ashock - 06-20-2017, 04:38 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Lissa - 06-20-2017, 06:30 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by eppie - 06-20-2017, 07:09 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Ashock - 06-20-2017, 08:32 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Lissa - 06-21-2017, 02:26 AM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by DeeBye - 06-21-2017, 05:51 AM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Ashock - 06-21-2017, 04:38 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by eppie - 06-21-2017, 06:42 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Ashock - 06-21-2017, 08:47 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by eppie - 06-22-2017, 06:45 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Ashock - 06-22-2017, 09:43 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by DeeBye - 06-23-2017, 04:16 AM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Ashock - 06-23-2017, 04:35 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Lissa - 06-23-2017, 06:48 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Ashock - 06-23-2017, 10:38 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Lissa - 06-24-2017, 02:01 AM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by eppie - 06-24-2017, 05:50 AM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Ashock - 06-26-2017, 08:35 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by eppie - 06-27-2017, 03:36 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Ashock - 06-27-2017, 05:32 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by kandrathe - 06-29-2017, 02:59 AM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by eppie - 06-30-2017, 05:21 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by kandrathe - 06-30-2017, 10:38 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Bolty - 06-21-2017, 07:02 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Ashock - 06-21-2017, 09:12 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by DeeBye - 06-20-2017, 04:49 AM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by LennyLen - 06-19-2017, 12:44 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by Tal - 06-20-2017, 05:32 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by kandrathe - 06-24-2017, 05:44 AM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by kandrathe - 06-24-2017, 09:32 AM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by eppie - 06-25-2017, 08:47 AM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by kandrathe - 06-24-2017, 07:31 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by kandrathe - 06-25-2017, 06:28 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by eppie - 06-25-2017, 07:26 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by kandrathe - 06-25-2017, 08:49 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by eppie - 06-26-2017, 06:53 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by kandrathe - 06-26-2017, 10:17 PM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by LavCat - 07-01-2017, 12:22 AM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by kandrathe - 07-01-2017, 03:00 AM
RE: This sounds like a great idea! - by LavCat - 07-01-2017, 04:04 AM

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