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Originally Posted by Andaras
Religious belief is completely incompatible with democracy because it places the deity as the source of sovereignty (political power) and not God,
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Eh? Religion gives "the deity" control over who has political power, and doesn't give it to God? Isn't God "the deity"? You're not making sense!
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religion also poisons politics and creates theocratic institutions.
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How can politics be poisoned? It's all about conflicting motives fighting for top dog influence... Religion just adds to the list of motives.
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Religion and religious extremism can never be 'moderated', you either believe in the texts and what they say or not!
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You realize that to be "moderated" means to be tamed by some external force. For instance, a government could restrict a religious extremist group from being able to do certain things. It has nothing to do with the believers themselves compromising with their beliefs.
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Simply put, you either believe what in your religious texts or you do not. If you do you believe in a celestial dictatorship where every human being is completely supervised and invigilated without letup every instant of your life from conception until death - and at death is where the real fun begins - because you either go to a paradise which according to every description I have read would be hellish, consisting of eternal praise and perfect servitude, unending and benign - worst of all a benign dictatorship. Or you go to Hell for eternal torture for an offense which you probably couldn't have failed to commit, because as is well said about religion once: 'it postulates that we are created diseased and then ordered to be well'. I don't know about you but I find religion a disgusting idea.
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That only describes the beliefs of a small subset of religions.
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Religion supports dictatorship and needs to be destroyed from secular political life!
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"Destroy" probably wasn't your best choice of word. You're likely to trigger angry responses simply due to the connotation of the word.