Mike Malloy - I´m Sick Of Christians Ramming Their Beliefs On Everybody Else

[hschulein]

Kansas' conservative Republican governor signed legislation Tuesday allowing faith-based groups at college campuses to restrict membership to like-minded people, likely putting the state on a collision course with civil liberties groups.

The GOP-dominated Legislature approved the legislation earlier this month, even though the U.S. Supreme Court ruled nearly six years ago that universities can require membership in such groups to be open to all. Supporters have said the bill was a victory for the freedom to exercise religious beliefs, but opponents called it a veiled attempt to legalize discrimination.

Full story: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/8d254284d7794f36b2376c6165b99a53/kansas-governor-signs-bill-protecting-faith-groups-campus

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[ladjf]

1. Religions are largely unsupported "notions" about the nature of existence.

The fact that they are products of subjective cognitive actions make them very unsuitable bases for
usable life philosophies. (The primary flaw in early existentialism.) Definitely, Government bodies of laws must be objectively crafted with the best interest of most of the people.

Among the greatest atrocities in history are the product of religious dogma.

[hschulein]

3. Excellent

100% correct.

[Fairgo]

2. Religion is schoolhouse rock for cavemen

I always thought I would get more religious as I aged, given the "hearing aids in every pew" crowd I observed as a child. But the opposite is true. As I gain an understanding of the role of religion in the social evolution of man, it becomes obvious that religion is like a crutch that used to serve us, but now only gets in the way. Religion was the mother of culture. It was our ethos and epistemological anchor...how we knew what we knew about the world and how we were to value it. But any human ritual tied to objects rather than processes loses its meaning over time. When tradition trumps the search for knowledge, the good, the just, and the beautiful; ignorance replaces them all. I think olde tyme religion does spirituality and morality no favours. What should be the shining crown of humanity is forever fragmented into bloody little shards. I have lost my nostalgia for the church. The good in it is overshadowed by its convenient use as a foil and shield for evil men.

[Missn-Hitch]

4. What Fairgo said.

I find that happening too. I was dwelling on this very topic on my commute home. I cringe, deeply, when I have a flashback of sitting in my circus of a church in my youth. Your words ring true. Cheers.

[Fairgo]

5. with only a little irony...

I say "Amen"