Sort of where I'm going with this is the idea that your religion is your business, and not anyone else's.
If you are concerned with what religion I am or with making sure I know what religion you are, then you are in the wrong. You should not care what faith I do or do not follow at all and to whatever extent you are even curious about it or are
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But to start with, I really did mean "public." Several of the counterexamples you and others have raised are really not public. If we're intimate, either in the current meaning or the more traditional "close friends" meaning, then we would discuss these things. But not in public.
The thing I'm aiming at is sort of...
A hell of a lot of things people do to each other, they blame on their relationship with their God. Which we as a society let them do, even at the same time we're telling them that their God doesn't agree with their actions. My feeling is that we should not be allowing each other to blame anything we do on God.
Shoot a bunch of brown people because they're brown? That's on you. Period.
Feed a bunch of hungry people? That's also on you. Period ( ... )
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Not at all. I'm saying there should not be laws (including exemptions from laws) about religion. Because anyone's religion is not the business of the state. Or the public. Same as who I want to kiss: not anyone's business.
You want to wear a cross, or a star, or a colander? Whatever, man; go ahead. You want to walk down the street loving on your sweetie? Excellent. You want to accost me on the street to tell me about Our Starchy Master, may his sauce be upon us? You are wrong to do so. Last I checked no one is evangelizing QUILTBAG on streetcorners with a bullhorn.
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This is a discussion about the damage I feel public religion is doing and has done to human society throughout history and in the present day. Not "There oghta be a law!", but "We ought to treat each other better and respect each other's personal autonomy, and instead of attributing every good thing we do to our Imaginary Friend In The Sky we ought to take responsibility for our own actions and feel good for ourselves about the good things we do."
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