Would a ban on all public religious representations and displays ease religious hatreds and violence

France does a piss poor job of handling its Muslim minority. This stupid policy is only one example. The U.S. approach is superior, as stated in the two parts of the First Amendment: the establishment clause, prohibiting establishment of religion, and the "free exercise" clause, protecting free exercise of religion.
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Today we can't build anything resembling a medieval catherdral. Just square concrete piles.

Your attitude reminds me of the ISIS fanatics. It's not a question of 'loyalty' to buildings, just appreciation of beauty - something that I suspect is very much lacking in your strangely distorted psyche.

 

Not looking at symbols is the same as recognizing no meaning . Why abolish meaninglessness ?
My personal symbol is 3 snakes and a crescent , and the tattoo shop refused to ink it on my
bald head . What did this mean ? I didn't ask .

 

Pleased pay attention.



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DL

 

I would not be the authority deciding, but if up to me, I would follow what Jesus taught about praying in private so as to end the in-group and out-group stupid thinking that religious are so fond of.

I like the idea of a united world and not a divided by the plethora of vile and immoral gods that we now have,

I prefer less division and violence perpetuated by the great god with the biggest cock contest.

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DL

 

Some think so, but then they cannot understand why France has the most progressive female imam run Mosque that accepts gays and un-veiled women. They are ending the compulsion of religion within Islam, that says they do not have it.

Secular law, when well applied as in France and Quebec makes religions walk their talk.

Note how Christianity and Islam do not murder gays nearly as much in secular nations.

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DL

 

Your attitude reminds me of small minded people.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt

Thanks for the wasted psychobabble.

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DL

 

I would say throw all the lawyers in the sea instead, and threaten to draw and quarter any academic debating the definition of words in the common dictionary, but the idiots would probably just argue over the definition of a dictionary. Richard Dawkins is an expert in survival of the fittest, who invented his own nonsense word "meme" convincing his militant atheist followers to spout complete gibberish, in the name of science, reason, growth, and progress. Perhaps you would like us to call religious symbols something different, just to make atheists happy.

 

Thanks for not speaking of the issues in the O.P.

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DL

 

In the 1990s dozens of men gang raped women in NYC central park in broad daylight in front of the cameras. The OP has no clue what the fuck they are talking about. Money is the only issue when it comes to atheists or the religious, who would love nothing more than to make a profit killing each other. Hitler killed Jews because it made money. The US enslaved blacks because we were Christian, right. The 9/11 terrorists only went after financial institutions and the Pentagon because they comprehend the importance of Christianity in deciding these things.

 

OK so we'll demolish all the churches, mosques, temples etc, we can pull down stonehenge too if you like, and the pyramids. Will your idiot fascist little ego be happy then? I doubt it.

 

Sorry , I do not watch videos .(slow internet)

 

Thanks for not speaking of the issues in the O.P.

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DL

 

Wow. You must really love the homophobia and misogyny that religions produce to be so protective of them.

You must like that most of the world is being coned and lied to by the clergy of most religions.

Again, you show how small your mind is and how you are certainly ignoring the Golden Rule.

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DL

 

One cannot speak to nonexistent undefined issues. If you wish to call a cross a Christian symbol, then I suppose you will have to also get rid of fish which are a Christian symbol. I'm a Taoist myself, and you can make it illegal to call myself a Taoist or use the yin-yang symbol, and we will simply adopt another name and other symbols, because we are not ruled by Wall Street lawyers attempting to define the dictionary and what is a religious symbol. We laugh at idiotic Babylonian attempts to change reality by changing the dictionary or their petty laws.

Record numbers of lifelong avowed atheists in China are now converting to Christianity, because they know damned well a capitalist government is never to be trusted with their children's future.

 

New flash: There are plenty of Christian denominations that are neither homophobic nor misogynistic, and they managed to get there without government intervention. In the U.S., these unckude (among others):

• the Episcopal Church
• Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
• United Church of Christ
• Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists
• Evangelical Lutheran Church
• Affirming Pentecostal CHurch
• Unclusive Orthodox Church
• Unity Church

Many people regard freedom of conscience as one of our most basic, precious freedoms. Yet France follows the example of the Roman Empire in trying to take it away--making a mockery of its hypocritical slogan:Liberté, égalité, fraternité.

 

I suspect the Golden Rule has been cleverly perverted . Selfish people love others so that
they be loved just as selfish people love god to receive eternal prosperity and selfish people
identify with symbols so to own them .

If you paint a swastika on my door in red paint , well , I've plenty of red paint and can draw on
it a little more - give it some swirlies , eh ? Should you paint a swastika on the ass of my Montana
war pony that'd be interesting . Hope you know what it means , or die .

 

No.