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Selsaral · 05-24-2006, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Xrikcus

You couldn't outlaw religion. You could end up a situation where a religious leader telling his congregation that what he believed is actually true, is outlawed. Is that really a bad thing? Are clashes between religions not so much down to believers beliefs, but believers being told that what they believe is true and everyone else is a heathen?

I am no lawyer, but to me the important point is that the religious leaders shouldn't be accepting money for telling things that were wrong, regardless of whether they sincerely believe it or not.

Doug Shaver · 05-25-2006, 07:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Selsaral

to me the important point is that the religious leaders shouldn't be accepting money for telling things that were wrong, regardless of whether they sincerely believe it or not.

Two questions.

1. To whom would you assign the legal responsibility for deciding whether what a religious leader said was wrong?

2. Would you apply that principle only to religious leaders, or to anyone who accepts money for telling people what they think?

Kosh · 05-25-2006, 07:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Doug Shaver

2. Would you apply that principle only to religious leaders, or to anyone who accepts money for telling people what they think?

Or what they've been taught.

Would professors then become liable for promoting ideas that are later proven wrong by science and research?

My point being,most of the preachers just don't know any better.

Doug Shaver · 05-26-2006, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Kosh

Would professors then become liable for promoting ideas that are later proven wrong by science and research?

I for one would really, really hate to see that happen. It would, for one thing, put an end to the teaching of science, or at least science as we know it (though not, perhaps, as creationists imagine that they know it).

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