If I could pass a single law to change humanity for the better, I would make it illegal to introduce religion to people until they were at least sixteen years old.
Then let's see how long it survives.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
I think I found my next bumper sticker.
If I could pass a single law to change humanity for the better, I would make it illegal to introduce religion to people until they were at least sixteen years old.
Then let's see how long it survives.
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Good one. I saw one a while ago "Lord, please protect me from your followers" We are finding out the hard way how true that is.
ReplyDelete"I would make it illegal to introduce religion to people until they were at least sixteen years old."
ReplyDeleteI would alter that slightly. I would make it 18 so they were legally adults who could refuse without question. Even 16 is quite susceptible and their parents would still have rights over them.
I wish I could forget. First grade catechism, a book of answers, with questions supplied also, that I wasn't asking:
ReplyDeleteWho made me?
God made me.
Who is God?
God is the supreme being who made all things...
yadda, yadda, yadda... You're right. You have to get them when they still believe in a rabbit that leaves chocolate, and a fat guy in a red suit who can make his way down chimneys with conveniently enough toys for all the 'good' kids on the planet. Shit.
Incidentally, this is the same time in life when homophobia is germinated too.
DeleteNone of is born with an aversion to individuals of the same gender expressing affection. That prejudice too must be embedded when people are young, suggestible, and without inclination to question what they are being taught.
I would make it illegal to indoctrinate any child into any religion until they are old enough to vote.
ReplyDeleteI remember a catholic priest telling my father "Give me a child from baptism until the age of 7, and he'll be a good Catholic for the rest of his life".
ReplyDeleteWell, that really only worked in a largely agrarian society where only the few went on to be highly educated. Today it's different -- thank the FSM (!) -- and most kids are widely exposed to a variety of people with a variety of beliefs, along with post-secondary education. The ones who are not are the fundie/evangelical homeschooled kids who will continue to believe everything they are taught (including hatred of gays) until life brings them some kind of rude awakening.
Good post. May you be touched by His noodly appendage!
DeleteHoly Marinara! A true believer.
DeleteMy 14 year old son went to an overnight church thing with some friends. It started at the church but then was an overnight trip to a local arcade/driving track kind of place, which is why he wanted to go. Older son and I identify as atheist. Husband is agnostic. Younger son is curious about religion. He came home and said that the part of the evening spent at the church was so weird to him. "They were just trying to scare everyone into believing in Jesus, Mom. It was like a cult." Bravo, son. You figured it out.
ReplyDeleteThere are all kinds of things that people feel children shouldn't have. drinking, driving a car, etc so why not religion? I think it is child abuse to expose them to religion. When they get to be adults and want to get involved, fine and dandy. Of course the religious wackos know that won't happen which is why they brainwash kids.
ReplyDeleteI would like to make it illegal for these religious types to come to my door, selling pamphlets and wanting to talk to me about Jesus. IF I had any interest, I would go to church without them pestering me. I remember Jerry Seinfeld explaining to Elaine why her neighbors disliked her. He said "Remember when you let that Jehovah's Witness into the building, and they can't get rid of him now?"
ReplyDeleteShove it up your ass.
ReplyDeleteJW,or 'mo?
DeleteGrowing up the head of Jw's lived down the hill to the left. The 'mo bishop down the hill to the right. Both were hypocrites. Worthless and crooked. I refused to buy in to their bullshit.
DeleteI agree. They brainwash the young.
ReplyDeleteI love the seinfeld comment. Sooo true!
ReplyDeleteI was forced to attend a Methodist church until my mother died when I was 13. I kept some loose social ties to it for a year or two, but I hadn't really believed since I was 8 or so. They had no answers to my questions other than faith, which seemed weak to me.
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ReplyDeleteIf I could pass a single law to change humanity for the better, I would make it illegal to introduce religion to people until they were at least sixteen years old.
If I could, I would mandate that CHESS be taught in kindergarten. It would help the kids in all decision making throughout their lives; including to follow a religion or not.
http://www.parents.com/kids/development/intellectual/benefits-of-chess/
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Lets face it dude, in your dream world you would take away all the rights of parents in how they raise, educate, and nurture their own offspring, and instead have them raised in strict protocol with what you 'feel' is the proper Gryphen Jong-un ideology.
ReplyDeleteOT: Someone should photoshop the picture of $arah pointing her finger at DuhCooter with a caption "Pull my finger. I dare ya."
ReplyDeleteFitting end to a disaster of a BBQ/SCAM weekend.
I love this sticker. My fundie Aunt has one on her new jaguar. "Don't let the car fool you, my reward lies in heaven" See what she did there? Gave the middle finger to the poor smucks who can't afford expensive worldly goods and excluded herself from the "What would Jesus Drive?" argument.
ReplyDeleteAnon at 9:20, good one. Griffin is a bit intolerant and arrogant in his own religious groupthink.
ReplyDeleteThat's just rich! It must hurt a bit to find out that people are becoming increasingly intolerant of your own intolerance and ignorance. Preys tha Lard.
DeleteIntolerant and arrogant: the very definition of religion from the very beginning.