The Morman hypothetical

[Archie Moses]

This question goes to my agnostic brothers and sisters here on the board...

One day, your child comes to you and says that he or she is religeous. What do you do? Or, rather, how do you handle the situation?

Thanks!

 

[Scat]

This question goes to my agnostic brothers and sisters here on the board...

One day, your child comes to you and says that he or she is religeous. What do you do? Or, rather, how do you handle the situation?

Thanks!

I'd think your question would be better directed towards the atheists on this board.

 

[Hopper]

I would have some tips for em if they wanted to haul off and git religion. For example: Don't forget to put some superglue on yo mitts when they pass the collection plate your way.

 

[richgates]

This question goes to my agnostic brothers and sisters here on the board...

One day, your child comes to you and says that he or she is religeous. What do you do? Or, rather, how do you handle the situation?

Thanks!

I would support them Archie. I think everyone should find their own truth.

 

[richgates]

This question goes to my agnostic brothers and sisters here on the board...

One day, your child comes to you and says that he or she is religeous. What do you do? Or, rather, how do you handle the situation?

Thanks!

I would support them Archie. I think everyone should find their own truth.

 

[Archie Moses]

I'd think your question would be better directed towards the atheists on this board.

Yeah, that's what I meant. It's funny cause I was hoping I didn't write "agnostic" and that I wrote "atheist" and that's why I got back online. Sure enough I wrote "agnostic" but I really meant "atheist". Just a typo and yes, I do know the difference.

 

[Darkwing Duck]

This question goes to my agnostic brothers and sisters here on the board...

One day, your child comes to you and says that he or she is religeous. What do you do? Or, rather, how do you handle the situation?

Thanks!

I'd ask if his/her new beliefs would cause him/her to exclude me from any wedding he/she may have. If the answer is yes, I'd slap 'im/'er.

 

[Darkwing Duck]

So you say, eh, Eric? But that don't stop large "atheist societies" from croppin up all over the country with regular meetins and far-flung agendas to promote.

Ah, so MADD is a religion then. I didn't know.

 

[Hopper]

Ah, so MADD is a religion then. I didn't know.

Yeah, ya might say that, eh, Dark? They're fanatics who try to dsiguise their true agenda, which is absolute prohibition. Inspired by God, probably.

"Candice (Candy) Lightner is the organizer and was the founding president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving....Lightner stated that MADD "has become far more neo-prohibitionist than I had ever wanted or envisioned … I didn't start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving". That year, Lightner left her position with MADD.

Many who otherwise would have been sympathetic to MADD's cause feel the organization has gone too far. Radley Balko argued in a December 2002 article that MADD's policies are becoming overbearing....Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) supports legislation setting the illegal blood alcohol content (BAC) limit for adult drivers who have been previously convicted of DUI/DWI at .05 per se.

MADD's critics assert that the organization is focused entirely upon the presence of alcohol in the body, rather than upon the actual danger posed by any impairment...Original drunk driving laws addressed the danger by making it a criminal offense to drive a vehicle while impaired — that is, while "under the influence of alcohol"; the amount of alcohol in the body was evidence of that impairment. In part due to MADD's influence, all 50 states have now passed laws making it a criminal offense to drive with a designated level of alcohol, based on the presumption that all persons are impaired at the level specified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers_Against_Drunk_Driving

 

[Darkwing Duck]

lol.

Are you Catholic? No.
Are you Protestant? No.
Are you LDS? No.
Are you Orthodox Jew? No.
Are you Presbyterian? No.
Are you Baptist? No.
Are you Lutheran? No.
Are you Druidic? No.
Are you MADD? YES.

 

[Hopper]

Dark, not that I give a crap, actually, but why ya wanna pull thangs outta context to try to make some comparison of equivalency to begin with? Are you claimin, on behalf of MADD, the same thing Eric claimed about atheists, i. e.:

Atheism has no causes, no principles, and no systems of belief.

 

[Hopper]

There's actually a couple of questions here that have been addressed.

1. Can any belief be considered "religious" if the subject matter of that belief does not relate to a diety? Your responses here suggest that you adhere to this as the sole criterion for deciding whether a set of beliefs could be considered "religious." With respect to atheism, I simply noted that even if this were the sole meaning of "religion," atheism would qualify, because it pertains to a theistic belief (Eric went on to argue, wrongly, I think, that the word "atheism" entails no belief).

2. A second question was raised when I pasted a dictionary definition suggesting that a foundation of "ardor and faith," not the mere subject matter, provided the criteria for categorizin sumthin as "religious." Since you apparently have pre-conceptions to the contrary, you appear to have completely ignored this aspect of the question.