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trotsky

(49,533 posts)
4. "show the harm"
Fri Apr 24, 2015, 08:43 AM
Apr 2015

Very problematic. There is a particularly prolific scolder in another group here on DU who loves to think the world is so nice and black and white where every religious belief is fine as long as it doesn't "harm." And c'mon you guys, can't you just leave religion alone?

But it's not that simple. Who gets to define "harm"? After all, the anti-choicers think that abortion murders a human being. Clearly they would define abortion as harm! So should abortion be illegal? Are religious beliefs that accept abortion causing harm?

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Statutory Spiritualism… [View all] NeoGreen Apr 2015 OP
Well, one big thing getting in the way bvf Apr 2015 #1
Because you have idiots that will argue that you therefore can't "indoctrinate" your kids into math, trotsky Apr 2015 #2
No doubt... NeoGreen Apr 2015 #3
"show the harm" trotsky Apr 2015 #4
One look at the anxiety Lordquinton Apr 2015 #9
As distasteful nil desperandum Apr 2015 #5
I don't see how you could keep parents from teaching their religion Curmudgeoness Apr 2015 #6
No. LiberalAndProud Apr 2015 #7
Thanks for all the replies... NeoGreen Apr 2015 #8
We should be focusing on letting the teachers teach Lordquinton Apr 2015 #10
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