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, religion also poisons politics and creates theocratic institutions.

Religion and religious extremism can never be 'moderated', you either believe in the texts and what they say or not!

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.

Religion supports dictatorship and needs to be destroyed from secular political life!