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Religion

Major Nikon

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7. Nah, that's just "human nature"

Reply to trotsky (Reply #5)

Thu Aug 1, 2019, 08:26 AM

Aug 2019

Religion can’t be blamed for that even though religion builds coalitions, lobbies directly, and finances the efforts to insure that happens.

Now if you wanna talk about something benevolent, then we can thank religion for that whether or not it had anything to do with it.

Funny how that works.

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Our Unalienable Rights Include Freedom of, and from, Religion [View all] trotsky Jul 2019 OP

Hallelujah! Raster Jul 2019 #1

Supernatural Rights Cartoonist Jul 2019 #2

To the zealots, religious freedom means the freedom to discriminate on the basis of religion Major Nikon Jul 2019 #3

In theory, the US Constitution guarantees this. guillaumeb Jul 2019 #4

And religion threatens it. trotsky Aug 2019 #5

Nah, that's just "human nature" Major Nikon Aug 2019 #7

"Religion" does not threaten anything. guillaumeb Aug 2019 #8

People who have religion do. trotsky Aug 2019 #9

Some theists are intolerant. guillaumeb Aug 2019 #10

Are there ANY passages in ANY holy books that don't teach tolerance? trotsky Aug 2019 #11

Ok, stop. Act_of_Reparation Aug 2019 #12

And the Republicans want to take it away. MineralMan Aug 2019 #6