Religion.
It's the 21st century, not the Dark Ages.

In most countries, religion is no longer compulsory. Churches have no power over us. So why choose to subject yourself and your family to the rule of religion?

Beats me.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sun 18 Oct 2009, 16:39, 14 replies)

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hear hear!
(Madam Cholet, Sun 18 Oct 2009, 18:48, closed)

simple
fear and ignorance
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Sun 18 Oct 2009, 19:21, closed)

It's not the actual belief that I have a problem with
it's the way some religious people* choose to reject perfectly good things about modern life on the grounds that they're sinful.

Contraception, for example - how is choice about whether or not one conceives not a good thing?

I've known people who've refused to divorce hated spouses because divorce was a sin, even though they've separated and both met new partners.

Don't get me started on blood transfusions or women's rights!

*I say 'religious PEOPLE' because in this day and age, adults are free to reject the loonier strictures of their church, so they must be actively choosing to obey them.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sun 18 Oct 2009, 20:13, closed)

but they are up against a formidable pair of adversaries
ignorance and indoctrination
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Sun 18 Oct 2009, 20:29, closed)

Yeah but no but yeah but
while that applies to kids, in this day and age adults can choose to live how they like.

Religion is a lifestyle choice like any other - nobody's forced to submit to it any more.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sun 18 Oct 2009, 21:28, closed)

You are truly
a woman after my own heart. Read my previous posts if you are also a devout atheist. Well put Juan!
( BobbyParadise, Sun 18 Oct 2009, 21:54, closed)

I'll do dat ting
right away!
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sun 18 Oct 2009, 22:46, closed)

Adults - especially uneducated adults - are almost as susceptible to indoctrination as children.

(idle insomniac enjoys listening to Sigur Rós at stupid hours, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 1:16, closed)

Even if they've been subjected to it from birth they can still question it and make their own decisions.
Many do this. They have a lot of fun!
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 11:40, closed)

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What really gets on my tits is that my daughter goes to a non-denominational school where they pray to Jesus, go to church etc etc, all because its part of the government education guidelines. It's a non-denominational school ffs, surely the religious indoctrination of my child should be down to me.
(Madam Cholet, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 9:57, closed)

That'll be school policy, decided by the governors,
if you're in the England or Wales, where schools don't legally have to teach Christianity.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 11:33, closed)

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That'll be the doing of the reverend of the local church being a governer then; bloody brain-washed eejits.
(Madam Cholet, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 12:11, closed)

Get yourself elected a parent governor then
and challenge him. School policies are decided by the whole board of governors, and all governors' votes carry equal weight.

Go for it!
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 0:43, closed)

Because it's funny!
And, I'll bet you told your kids there really was a Santa, and Tooth Fairy, and Easter Bunny...

What's the difference?
(pizzaforcat ate some cement and HARDENED the FUCK UP on, Wed 21 Oct 2009, 3:30, closed)