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Religion: Taking Care of Children
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By Captain Tenille, Section Culture
Posted on Wed Aug 27th, 2003 at 01:54:06 PM PDT
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Recently, there's been a lot of talk on this site about religion, the separation of church and state, and religion in the government.
I think it's time we step back a bit and see what it is that religion has to offer our society and our day to day lives. There's everything from working to control a woman's body, loving their fellow man, and even asking God to dabble in the judiciary.
Sometimes, though, it's not all fun and games. Sometimes, people's slavish devotion to superstition kills little autistic boys.
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| Often, religion gives us fairly harmless things, like crappy websites and bitching about birthdays. Faith Healing is a bit different. An adult dying because they don't want to go to a doctor is one thing, but children dying because of "faith healing" seems different, right?
Wrong. Because of pressure from religious groups like the Christian Scientists, it is legal to allow your children to die if it's part of your religious beliefs that faith healing is the way you cure diseases. Belief in creationism, thinking the world is flat, that God ordained pi to be three, and a rabid hatred of unbelievers usually harms no one, but this is one of the examples of religious thought that does affect innocent people. This is why we should take the threat of religious fanaticism seriously, that people would be so devoted to their absurd beliefs that they would allow their own flesh and blood to die from easily preventable causes is frightening. You may think it's OK to have religion in our government and daily lives, but the same thinking that promotes publically displaying the Ten Commandments also promotes this.
While they're at it, they may want to rethink their child care philosophy while they're at it. |
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| Quite non-Moronic, really. Not Mormon, either. |
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