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Originally posted by rlbell@Feb 6 2006, 02:57 PM
You can practice any faith that you choose, but only so long as you do not express that faith in public life. This is not tolerance, it is the universal oppression of all faith. Are religious symbols still banned in French schools?
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Why is it neccisary for people to express their religion in public? Religion is, in my opinion, a private matter. It's nobody's business whether I'm atheist, muslim, protestant, catholic, buddisth, whatever. It's my own business and nobody elses. I really don't see the need of people advertising their faith.
About John Paul II. You think he
should encourage people to go to prostitutes and have sex before marriage? Ok, he's too radical in the condom thingy in my opinion, but avoiding prostitutes and sex before marriage makes sense to me. I'm not saying that I wouldn't, (have sex before marriage, that is, prostitutes aren't really the thing for me), but it actually a pretty smart thing.
And I'm pretty sure that the fact he says "don't use contraception" isn't really stopping people from doing so.... So I wouldn't really call him a mass murderer.
But.. off topic... sorry
The ironic part about many wars in history is that many of them were fought for love... but ended up breaking more hearts than healing...