How can you have a government by and for the people without taking their religious beliefs into account? I mean there are some people who base their entire identity on their religions. Are all these people bad people for following what their leaders (who they believe are inspired by God) tell them to?
Christianity has made some mistakes in the past. So have the Muslims, and I'm sure the Jews. In fact I bet you can find some Buddhists somewhere that did something wrong. Does that mean that all of those people should be condemned? Should they have their right to vote taken away based on the mistakes of the past?
These aren't just rhetorical questions either. I'd like to know your answers to them. Though to be honest, I don't know if I even have a good answer for one or 2 of them myself...
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Date: 2010-08-07 04:32 am (UTC)Christianity has made some mistakes in the past. So have the Muslims, and I'm sure the Jews. In fact I bet you can find some Buddhists somewhere that did something wrong. Does that mean that all of those people should be condemned? Should they have their right to vote taken away based on the mistakes of the past?
These aren't just rhetorical questions either. I'd like to know your answers to them. Though to be honest, I don't know if I even have a good answer for one or 2 of them myself...