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Originally Posted by kool maudit
Religion is belief. How can you ban belief? Either you think something is real or you do not. No institution can change what anyone thinks about the true nature of the world.
History is filled, of course, with institutions that have sought to prevent us from saying what we think the nature of the world is, and that have tried to force us to pretend we think that it is whatever they say it is.
These deserve every bit of the violence they inevitably face.
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Could not have put it better. Not sure how anyone could consider banning religion as helpful or any better than an autocratic regime.