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Should all religion be banned?

  • 21-06-2016 01:34PM
    #1
    glued
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,446 ✭✭✭


    Do you think it's good for the mental health country that we have thousands of people attending religious ceremonies every week, talking to someone that doesn't exist and basing their morals on ancient scripture written centuries before them?

    I know religion is a comfort for some people but it's seems bizarre that we allow it to be still significantly involved in modern society. I don't think the comfort it brings to people outweighs the negative cost and drastic burden it has on society.

    Religion divides people more than it brings people together and, as such, I think it should be banned. What say ye?

    Do you think religion should be banned? 95 votes

    Ban it - Load of nonsense
    0%
    Keep it - I like talking to the sky
    100%
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Comments

  • #2
    Felix Jones is God
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭Felix Jones is God


    Completely and utterly..


  • #3
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    How exactly do you go about banning religion?


  • #4
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    No. But religious orders should keep to themselves and keep the hell out of our schools, hospitals and legislation.


  • #5
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,413 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    All except for Scientology, obviously.


  • #6
    hidinginthebush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    Trying to ban all the Jews about 60 years ago went down a treat :rolleyes:

    Let people believe whatever the feic they want IMO. Religion is like a penis, once you're not shoving yours down my throat you can do what you want with it.


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  • #7
    glued
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,446 ✭✭✭glued


    eviltwin wrote: »
    How exactly do you go about banning religion?

    Ban it in public, keep any religious symbolism and prayer to the privacy of your own home.


  • #8
    glued
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,446 ✭✭✭glued


    hidinginthebush wrote: »
    Trying to ban all the Jews about 60 years ago went down a treat :rolleyes:

    Let people believe whatever the feic they want IMO. Religion is like a penis, once you're not shoving yours down my throat you can do what you want with it.

    Yeah, because letting people believe whatever they think has worked out well so far.


  • #9
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    glued wrote: »
    Ban it in public, keep any religious symbolism and prayer to the privacy of your own home.

    And what would be the penalties? And how would you apply them ?


  • #10
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Nah...let them at it

    What harm Is it doing so long as their not forcing their views onto other people


    Live and let live I say


  • #11
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    hidinginthebush wrote: »
    Trying to ban all the Jews about 60 years ago went down a treat :rolleyes:

    Let people believe whatever the feic they want IMO. Religion is like a penis, once you're not shoving yours down my throat you can do what you want with it.



    That's quite an an invitation.


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  • #12
    glued
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,446 ✭✭✭glued


    eviltwin wrote: »
    And what would be the penalties? And how would you apply them ?

    Two decades of the rosary and a trip to the electric chair.


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 19,174 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I think we should ban hot dogs.
    I don't understand how anyone likes them! I mean, they just look like that dogs mickey bit that pops out when they are horny.
    So smooth and pink.
    Gross.
    And me & my buddy always argue about this, she loves them. I don't understand. Surely anyone can see/taste how gross they are?


  • #14
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 20,078 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    I'm Not religious and don't go to a church at all.

    But, no. Banning it would be forcing your opinions into people, which is your criticism of religion.
    People should be free to be religious or not themselves.

    Without religion people would find something else to war about.


  • #15
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    No, it provides great comfort for millions and millions of people. It is not the fault of the religion when someone is killed because their god told them to.


  • #16
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,610 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Keep it - I like talking to the sky
    Impossible to ban something that people choose to believe in but it should be strictly extra curricular ie. FAR away from all forms of formal education and no children should be allowed be indoctrinated into it. If once they are 18 they make the choice to believe in and join a religion then go for it, but baptising a child and forcing them into relgiious education is indoctrination plain and simple and not much different to brainwashing.


  • #17
    RustyNut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭RustyNut


    God no...


  • #18
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Only if you don't agree with the concept of human rights.

    I may not subscribe to any, but it's not on me to prevent someone else seeking whatever one gets or receives from it.

    I don't think as organizations they should have any particular privileges or esteemed position in soceity. They're ideally just a group of people with common interests, beliefs and ethics. They're not beyond reproach.
    glued wrote: »
    Religion divides people more than it brings people together and, as such, I think it should be banned. What say ye?

    We may as well ban Marmite then as well while we're at it.


  • #19
    Story Bud?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭Story Bud?


    It's banned in North Korea.

    Works well.


  • #20
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 19,174 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Your poll is crap too OP.

    If someone doesn't want to ban religion,then they are a crazy who talks to the sky?
    How's about live and let live?


  • #21
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,610 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Keep it - I like talking to the sky
    Story Bud? wrote: »
    It's banned in North Korea.

    Works well.

    Yeah "banned" they just teach the people to worship the Dear Leader and his predecessors as if they were Gods walking among them


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  • #22
    Maguined
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,247 ✭✭✭Maguined


    It should not be banned as people should be free to believe in what they want but it should certainly be taxed and all other preferential treatment removed.


  • #23
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Off to the A&A thread with you OP. You might get the responses you want to help you fap off.


  • #24
    Farmer Ed
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,617 ✭✭✭Farmer Ed


    Personally I do believe in God but I'm beginning to think religion is one of the biggest reasons people don't believe. This scientist seams to believe.
    http://beforeitsnews.com/prophecy/2016/06/scientist-says-he-found-definitive-proof-that-god-exists-video-2481345.html


  • #25
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    We could bring in new laws to prevent people believing in things we don't like.

    How about we call them Penal laws.

    Yeah, I'm sure that would work out well....


  • #26
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    It would be impossible to ban it. But they should be taxed at 55%+ and kept out of schools and hospitals.


  • #27
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    If history has taught us anything, it's that persecuting people for the religious beliefs is a sure fire way to a more peaceful society.

    They'll all die away on their own eventually, if we don't all go up in smoke first.


  • #28
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    No but shoving your beliefs down other people's throats or mocking someone's beliefs should be illegal.


  • #29
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,924 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    The only way to truly remove religion from the world is to let it phase itself out naturally via education and information.

    Trying to actively stamp it out is no better than atrocities committed in the name of religion throughout history. You'd just be replacing one horror with another.


  • #30
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    I would not be banning it. People can worship me if they wish.


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  • #31
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,924 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    No but shoving your beliefs down other people's throats or mocking someone's beliefs should be illegal.

    No it shouldn't, as mockery is subjective - so a fun joke to you might be mockery of someone else. Where do we draw the line?


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