British Government: Ban all religions in the UK
Why this is important
We owe it to our children to safeguard them from abuse! All religions have either killed, rapped or buggered them in the name of a fictitious sky daddy known as God! They deserve better from us!
Jesus Christ almighty! Because, of course, it worked so well the last time it was tried. Has this cretin never heard of the term “priest hole”? Bans don’t work. I mean, look at that ban on narcotics. How’s that working out? Oh, yeah, people are still smoking weed and shooting heroin; so it’s working out just fine and feeding a voracious criminal economy – not to mention an equally voracious enforcement ecosystem. Ban religion and people will simply go underground. They won’t stop doing it.
And that’s just the practical bit. There’s the moral issue too. Freedom of religion is a basic civil liberty along with freedom of speech, freedom of association and freedom of assembly. The government has no right to ban or curtail any of these. That it tries from time to time is a disgrace.
If Glyn W thinks that a ban on religion will stop jihadis blowing up children, he is as deluded as they are.
But “something must be done”.
Banning all religions is something.
Therefore ban all religions.
Stands to reason, innit. 😉
Heh!
If I’m not mistaken there’s already a ban on building bombs and blowing up kids, so surely that’s that sorted isn’t it?
Yup. And it works, doesn’t it?
Dear Cuffleyburgers
Not if you are a fervent global warmist apparently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNfM30ocA7I
DP
Lol his petition has 11 signatures – but he’s aiming for a whole 100!
You go for it, lad – reach for the stars!
Indeed.
Wow! A religion is a deep seated and life long belief that a person is taught and has held since they were old enough to understand language.
Have you ever tried to tell a religious person why their beliefs don’t hold water? It doesn’t work and they have a faith based answer for everything.
Banning religion would not make millions of religious people abandon their faith, it would only make them criminals. And it may even make non-religious people switch sides
There is certainly a problem with Islam and there is certainly a problem with governments bending over backwards to appease Islam and avoid being called racist. That’s where to start. Enforce the law for everyone regardless of religion
If most religious folk want to worship their sky fairy and leave the rest of us alone, leave them to it
(Having said that, it does grip my shit that religious people pass that onto their offspring and have them suitably indoctrinated before they are old enough to make an informed choice)
Leggy’s got one of these guys banging on over at his place at the moment. Apparently evolutionary theory is demonstrably untrue… Sigh… There’s no reasoning with such folk, but providing they harm no one, that’s fine by me.
I’ve had a sneaking admiration for Stewart since he stood his ground in the face of appalling behaviour on the part of a Labour MP on whose blog Stewart had commented. I don’t share his beliefs but I think he’s a decent sort.
I missed that one. But, then, I tend to avoid MP’s blogs as they don’t take dissent too well.
I have to admit I too have both a liking and admiration for Srewart. I personally think he’s fundamentally wrong, but he has the courage of his convictions in the face of a generally hostile reception, and he upholds his beliefs in a generally civil and reasonable way. That’s his right, and I don’t begrudge him that.
As LR says, there’s no reasoning with him because his belief is strong. but then who is to say I am right and he is wrong? Darwinism is as much a belief system as creationism, albeit one which better appeals to reason and better fits reality. But who is to say with certainty? It’s still all hypothesis.
Darwin based his writings on observation and experimentation. They are replicable and falsifiable, so follow scientific principle. We have seen how organisms adapt to their environment (which is what Darwin was theorising). Evolution is not a theory, it is observable. It is not a belief system.
Religion on the other hand has absolutely nothing to substantiate it and nothing to recommend it.
I’ll go with Darwin.
I’m going to get well flamed for this but it has to pointed out………Western civilisation’s morality, social structure, law, science etc etc is a direct result of Christianity. Modern secular thinking completely ignores the positives of this and seems to think it can replace these ow not so entrenched values with the vanity of the human condition which is a recipe for it’s collapse because the vacuum left by the destruction of Christian teachings will only be replaced by something much worse. Just look at Rotherham as to how Labour/socialist PC and Islam go hand in hand. Whether you like it or not, on the grand scale of things, Christianity has enabled many more things positive than negative for life in general in the west.
“Western civilisation’s morality, social structure, law, science etc etc is a direct result of Christianity.”
No, it really really isn’t. If you actually read the Bible, the foundation document of Christianity, you will find very few positive moral messages and endless negative ones. Our legal systems and the scientific method are taken from pre-Christian civilisations. When the Christian Churches became powerful in the fourth century there followed twelve hundred years of ignorance and barbarism. We owe almost everything to the enlightenment. This is not to say that Christianity hasn’t had an enormous influence on our culture, of course it has, but I would not say that this influence was particularly positive.
Regarding banning religion, the idea is completely absurd, for the reasons stated above. We could at least secularise our schools, stop segregating them and teach critical thinking.
Formalised separation of state and church would be a start.
Christian teachings and civilities arn’t a bad way to raise a family at all, the same is true for most religions.
I find those who take the piss out of Christians amusing for their outspoken bravery, they have no problem being insulting to Christians, even to their face…note how that criticism is deafening in its silence towards those who worship Islam.
Christians arn’t perfect by any means, but no worse nor better than those who decry faith.
I regard all religions with varying degrees of contempt. They usually contain a few crumbs of wise advise floating in an ocean of infantile drivel. Magic trees, talking animals, zombie uprisings. Nobody lives their life according to the tenets of the New Testament because they are impractical to the point of absurdity. Give away everything you have, chop off any naughty extremities, hate your family, don’t plan for the future.
Tracey Ullman’s recent TV series (The Tracey Ullman Show) includes sketches that pithily observe the modern general UK attitude towards Christians.
I’ve never been able to find much of a positive in and religion and I don’t see why we need it to have good morals. That should be a human condition rather than a religious one
There’s a lot of it about…