Purple Knight wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 8:36 pm
They only banned the honest atheists from office. Think about it. For half a second.
They're welcome to do it and I don't think it's wrong, but it's still extremely stupid... unless of course they're trying to ban honest people from office. Wouldn't surprise me.
I'm well aware you'd cave to the powers that be.
JoeyKnothead wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 11:03 amShould theists have exclusive rights to hold public office?
They should have the right to ban atheists if that's what you're asking. And another state can ban religious people. While the latter would probably violate some very serious laws, I don't think it would be wrong either.
The Constitution bans religious tests for public office, while requiring government officers to defend the Constitution...
No religious test clause.
Now if you're asking whether they should ban atheists from public office, obviously they should not. As I mentioned, firstly, they're only banning the honest atheists...
I wouldn't want a known liar to sit in government.
... and secondly, if you start the game of discriminatory hardball, you've started the process by which a multicultural society will cease to be functional.
Which is what's happening when Christians / theists declare atheists unfit for office.
That's not to say I think everyone can tolerate multiculture. I don't.
As here, where Christians / theists are rejecting multicultural notions.
Some people clearly can't take it unless everyone around them follows all the same rules as they do, and frankly that's fine and there ought to be places for them to retreat to.
Let these haters retreat to their untaxed houses of worship.
If those places can't keep up with the performance of multicultural places, their standard of living will dwindle accordingly and if the people there think that's a fair price to pay for isolation, then it is.
Kinda hard to keep up when you're banned from participating.
And on the off-chance that monoculture outperforms multiculture, we'll still have learnt something.
Yeah, that by keeping atheists out of office Christians / theists are free to discriminate as they see fit, up to and including disregarding their oaths to defend the Constitution.
I might be Teddy Roosevelt, but I ain't.
-Punkinhead Martin