Where do you draw the line between a religion that has a right to practice the way it wishes, and a religion that has practices that are harmful to society?
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Metaphiz
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when people start blowing up buildings and killing inoccent people
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I can't think from the top of my head of a religion that has practices that are harmful to society, although there are certainly individual members of many religions that have such practices.
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You can't becuse you have a lot of religions that are physically and emotionally harming people today and you can't do anything about it. Child molestation, mind control, exploitation, trying to take away rights. There are a lot of people going to the courts trying to challenge a lot of religions and places who help people trying to get out testifying but look at how much good that's done.
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Very difficult to do. We can only judge by what we see and what is reported to us by people who have been involved in such religions. We had allegations of child abuse in one cult in Aust. a few years ago. the children were taken, then returned by the courts....
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That is a line that we here in America find it very hard to draw. That is why so many weirdo religions thrive here. It's too hard to say one religion is harmful and another isn't. It is only when laws are broken that the government can step in. Even then it's risky business. It comes with freedom. Some one will always go too far and cause those freedoms to be taken away a little at a time.
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I believe that is the line. Once your "religion" starts hurting other people, those things that harm other people are not okay. That includes any religion. I realize that the world we live in today became as such because religions have harmed each other for hundreds and thousands of years. To harm and kill in the name of a god (whom) supposedly is to be a kind and gentle god. Why would "he" want something like that? (If you believe that god exists and has human-like qualities) That's like finding the cutest little girl you can think of who is filled with love and happiness for her pets. Then, one animal starts to kill the other animals because they think that the little girl wants it to. It's a WEIRD analogy, I know... But I think it's fitting. Killing in the name of a god is just as ridiculous as what I have just said.
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