Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> True. On the other hand, folks have been down that slippery slope already, 
>> so it's not obvious it's really a fallacy in this case. Indeed, in the USA, 
>> people are galloping down that slope.  (A number of high-profile religious 
>> leaders are publicly praying for the death of the president right now, for 
>> example.)
> 
>   I also think (although I have nothing to back my opinion up) that the
> idea that getting rid of all religion will fix these problems is incorrect.

I agree entirely.  What it *will* do is to reduce the legitimacy of people 
behaving badly.

For example, the Masai religion (African herders) teaches them that God gave 
them all the cattle. When they see someone else's cows, it's not immoral for 
them to take those cows, because they belong to the Masai anyway. (Kind of 
like a Promised Land with cows, I guess.)  If you do that in Africa, the 
police will at worst come take the cows back.  If you did that in America, 
the Masai religion would not legitimize it and you'd probably be in jail.

If I drove around the city with a bumper sticker saying "Obama should die" 
I'd probably get arrested. (Maybe not charged with anything, but certainly 
inconvenienced.) But since these nut-case preachers are getting on national 
TV and saying they're asking *GOD* to kill Obama, it's apparently not a 
problem for the secret service to look into.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".

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