Originally posted by Holden McGroin
[pet peeve]If you could care less, than that means you must care some. Now if you couldn't care less, that means you care zero.[/pet peeve]
Doesn't complete secular society try to push it's views on the religious? Aren't tax dollars of some used to pay for programs that are directly opposed to deeply held religious views?
Before you make any assumptions, I am agnostic and do not hold a firm view on the subject of abortion.
Tolerance of others views is difficult: it is advanced citizenship.
Careless means it doesn't bug me. Doesn't mean I wont debate with someone about religion or what ever and express my views. It doesn't mean that it bugs me that people go to church and believe in what ever they want. I'm happy for them if they found something that makes them happy.
Hell, I could really care less if the govt uses tax dollars for religious programs. None of it bugs me unless they are trying to force it on me or others with out our consent.
I've been through the whole religious stuff when I was a kid and teenager, it wasn't forced on me or shoved down my throat. I didn't have deeply religious parents that forced me to go to church every Sunday, but I did have my experiences with going to church as a kid. I also went to a private church school once in elementary school for 2 years and then in Junior high school for 2 years.
So I'm not the typical hate religious stuff because I had strict parents and want to rebel routine. I was just going down the wrong path in public school so my parents pulled me out and stuck me in private school.
Even then, I never bought in to it and knew it wasn't for me. I went along with the private schools, simply because I knew I was better off in that kind of school rather than in the public junior high schools in my area.
I'll never say religons don't have a place in society as I know in many cases they can do lots of good. However far too often religion is used as a tool to control people. Hence this particular case right here, they are trying to force their opinion and beliefs on others via the govt rule.
That is something I have zero tolerance for. Religious groups should just stick with preaching and teaching and stop all the fear mongering and trying to force others to believe what they do. If others want to hear their message they will listen.