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Religious right speaks ill of the dead

If you listen to the religious right, morality and religion go hand in hand. If you aren't religious you can't possibly have morals. I suppose that's why I see many cars with the "fish symbol" speeding through traffic. They must be on a religious mission of importance. Because we know they are moral and wouldn't want to put others at risk or imposition due to thier selfishness. I don't consider myself a religious person but I do have morals. I was taught that you don't speak ill of the dead. Now I know it shouldn't surprise me but when I see "religious folks" speaking ill of the dead that irks me. Today when I viewed a right wing religious website speaking ill of Sylvester , I decided to write about it. In case you don't believe me you can view it here . If you ask me, religion is it's own worst enemy. Gone are the days where people have blind faith. For ages many people have been murdered, enslaved, oppressed and demeaned by reli...

INDONESIA: Only 5 religions allowed; others illegal

I'm sure there are heterosexual christian talibanists out there who wish the USA was more like Indonesia in regards to religion: Thirty-one Muslims in the Donggala area of Central Sulawesi have become apostates and converted to the Bahá’í religion, it is said, inviting the anger of their neighbours who are sticking firm to Islam, and the displeasure of the local bureaucracy The head of the Religious Affairs Office in Palolo sub-district said that the Bahai faith, led by one Mulahi, a former marriage counsellor, entered Banpers village in the 1990s, and Mulahi had persuaded 31 local people to convert. The local government held a meeting between concerned Muslims and the Bahaists in September, 2007, wherein the Bahai adherents were warned to have a think about which religion they wanted to belong to, either Islam, like before, or another religion which was recognised by the government, because Bahai is not. Another meeting will be held soon, to find out whether the Bahaists have had ...