On 10 August 2011 03:52, Charles Haynes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Religionists are welcome to teach their children whatever they please. > This breaks the idea of a secular society. Appeasement of every religion is not the same as ignoring its existence. I also fundamentally disagree that the government needs to recognize the religious custom that one's children belong to the same religion and hence the religious establishment is free to mold their brains as they please. Marriage, divorce, inheritance, education, criminal law, abortion, genetic research, space exploration, history, psychiatry and psychology etc. are areas where one or more religions have a vested interest to prop up their scripture/religious establishment and this might just be a shortlist. You cannot equate religious views to an individual's opinions since the latter is arrived at from some form of evidence analyzed and interpreted by the individual, whereas the other is dogma handed down and forced upon the individual since birth. Respecting both in a dialogue between two individuals is possible and healthy, but not in a dialogue between the government and the individual. Kiran My karma ran over your dogma...
