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by 23Skidoo on December 27th, 2009

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Americans are slowly catching up with the rest of the western world and abandoning religion. Good or bad?

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  • by Mr. Meaulnes on January 10th, 2010
    voted: It Great! About time to shake the invisible friends and grow up.

    Mr. Meaulnes

    I don't think "Abandoning religion" is necessarily the best way to go, but it certainly needs to play a smaller role in American government and to some extent American society.

    I'd like to add here that Western Europe's drastic lean away from religion is, in no small part, fallout from the alienating and all too immediate atrocities of WWII, and that being said, America isn't so much slow as the rest of the world is fast.
    It's only natural for some people to want religion in their lives and in their nation, just as it's only natural for some others to see the major flaws in that model and react by wanting no religion whatsoever in their society and government. Really, though, arguing these two sides is an argument on altogether the wrong plane: what's needed is for religion to exist with the humility to acknowledge that it is and should be largely irrelevant to the lives of non-believers.

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    • I disagree that it needs to exist, anymore than comforting drugs need to exist. But if they (drugs and religion) do exists I 100% agree they should be "...irrelevant to the lives of non-believers.", at least "largely">
      Cheers

      23Skidoo

      by 23Skidoo on January 10th, 2010

    • I used to hold precisely the same view; as a matter of fact I used to be in the line of seeing religion as quite the plague... I wouldn't say that religion NEEDS to exist, but rather that it WILL exist, pretty much no matter what, so it's better to aim for balance and cooperation rather than marginalizing it as something outside the legitimate realm of discussion.
      There are certain areas where religion should absolutely not be relevant because of its subjective nature -- basic rights, for instance -- but that doesn't mean it doesn't deserve consideration as a legitimate priority. It may not be very relevant to my life, but it is precisely because of that irrelevance that accepting religion is such a mark of maturity and enlightenment for both individuals and society as a whole.

      Mr. Meaulnes

      by Mr. Meaulnes on January 11th, 2010

    • Fair enough.
      I think religion should be treated somewhat like sex. Let adults do it in their own way. It's impolite to discuss it too openly and we expose kids to it only in gradual, age appropriate ways. And like minded adults can do it together in groups if they want too.

      23Skidoo

      by 23Skidoo on January 12th, 2010

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