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I agree with Bullet Magnet. Completely. I will afford your religious nonsense no special considerations. None at all. If you wish to discuss it in my presence, I will let you know what I think of it just as if you were claiming that 2 and 2 is 5. Religious tolerance is just that. I tolerate you. That doesn't mean that I can't say that you're wrong.
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Thank you!
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Hmm, I'm gonna re-join just to say both of your arguments are pretty BS. It appears that you are highly opinionated BM? If I'm wrong please say but posts like "If you think that constitutes a shoving down the throat, then don't stand around with your mouths open!" are pretty banal.
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There's a church right next to my house. I can watch their services from my bedroom window. I could barge in and interfere and tell them all about what I think of their beliefs. But that infringes on
their right to congregate freely for the purpose of worship. As it is, this group doesn't do anything particularly outrageous and doesn't even ring the bell right outside my window. Well, once, and I'm not sure why, perhaps a child was messing around with it.
Now, I have views about the way those with moderate beliefs. I do not absolve them for making prayer and religion respectable, reinforcing and encouraging the idea that they are good in any way, enabling those who would (for example) rather pray than acquire medical care for desperately sick children, or fill the air with useless chaff, muddying things when confronted with religious practices that are unambiguously abusive, persuading us all to say "it's their faith, respect it" when scraping out the external reproductive organs of their girls and putting their women in cloth bags. They make it harder to rouse a popular opposition. I will say that to anyone, and I don't care if they are offended or not. They should be. But I'm not going to crash a service to do so. That
is forcing it down people's throats, though I can't help but feel that that message needs to be.