True enough (with respect to Bible and Quran), but they’re derived from a shared set of myths and stories passed down from the bronze age / very early iron age.

True, people will find a way to discriminate. However, saying ‘getting rid of religion won’t cure discrimination’ is like saying ‘getting rid of guns won’t cure violence’. Religion may not be the sole source of discrimination, but it is a major one.

I see your attempt to twist my words, and I’ll bite. ‘Racism’ doesn’t provide justification for discrimination. Racism is discrimination, a specific form of it.

Of course. To each his own. Still, I’d like to see anyone try to argue that more religion somehow means less discrimination. Not likely.

As have members of every society everywhere. Personal sovereignty is somewhat different than this ‘social contract’ of which you speak. I actually agree that face coverings are something we can legitimately ban at public schools or on government / official property, but I still stand by my point that a broad swath of…

Slapping the word ‘religion’ in front of an unreasonable, anti-social, or delusional behavior doesn’t magically make it okay. If you -have- to wear a face mask then you’d better respect someone else who -has- to be naked. Or - how about this - both Ms. Mask and Mr. Naked comply with societal norms when they are in…

There’s a difference between clothing (functional) and fashion accessories (expressive). Public school is a valid place to make that distinction.

It’s almost as though the picture was chosen (or was left up even after being pointed out) deliberately to incite a higher degree of misguided outrage from the readership. Hmm.

Your fairly well-reasoned comment is going to be immensely unpopular with the readership of this blog, many of whom hold and will vehemently defend a number of flagrant double standards regarding human behavior and societal structure.

‘progress’ on these issues is dependent on the decline of religion. Less religion = fewer religious rules = fewer people discriminating against one another for arbitrary reasons.

You’ve hit on a notion fundamental to much of Europe — that the individual belongs to the State.

“Surely Allah has cursed the unbelievers (Jews, Christians and followers of other faiths) and has prepared for them a burning fire”

I just mentioned this to my coworkers. One said “well, that’s just because there’s more money now!” I said, yeah, for the elite class. The real purchasing power of average working-class wages has been pretty stagnant. He shrugged and said “well, I’m richer now than I ever thought I’d be. Oh well.”

You know how they say “youth is wasted on the young”?

You can also spot cultists by the way they habitually murmur nonsensical phrases to an imaginary entity from one of a number of storybooks fabricated by primitive tribesmen during the Bronze Age.

An old, crazy-looking man with wild eyes and a scraggly beard followed by half a dozen blank-faced underage girls holding small babies and numbly reciting phrases about ‘God’s will’ isn’t suspicious to you? Remind me not to vote for you at the ‘neighborhood watch’ election next month.

I don’t think bearded men in black hats driving horse-drawn carts full of their child sex slaves would make it too long in Florida. Just a hunch.

Fundamental Christians: “Abortion is a sin!”

With luck, the girls can still get a shot at being raised properly and successfully introduced to the real world, out from under the shadow of their parents’ harmful, persistent delusion.

To a certain type of person, any object longer than it is wide is ‘phallic’. Soda cans, skyscrapers, submarines, bullets, swords, pencils, water bottles, etc. Must be horrible to go through life seeing reproductive organs everywhere you look.