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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Tue Nov 3, 2015, 01:56 AM Nov 2015

Pushing Religion On Others Is A Religious Right. Stopping Proselytizing Is Persecution.

The religious right believes that it can force religion on you and you have no right to stop them. Ultimately their plan is to infiltration education all over the country because we are a Christian nation. What many Americans seem to not understand is that the country is dealing with a determined constituency that will NEVER give up their quest.

Even now religionists have made many strides toward their goal. The "choice" and "voucher" system is just a coded way of forcing taxpayers to fund THEIR schools. And take over of school boards where voter turn out is low is where they want to make the deepest inroads.

They have the GOP and billionaires like the Koch brothers helping them. And this battle is a generational battle.

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Pushing Religion On Others Is A Religious Right. Stopping Proselytizing Is Persecution. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Nov 2015 OP
kick Dawson Leery Nov 2015 #1
K&R! haikugal Nov 2015 #2
nt & kick bearssoapbox Nov 2015 #3
+1 B Calm Nov 2015 #7
I have the RIGHT to walk away, not yuiyoshida Nov 2015 #4
You're correct, except for the part about choice/voucher schools. That's not about religion... Scuba Nov 2015 #5
1. I'm an atheist and I say, proselytizing is a religious right. DetlefK Nov 2015 #6
The issue isn't proselytisation per se, it's the state doing it. Donald Ian Rankin Nov 2015 #8

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
4. I have the RIGHT to walk away, not
Tue Nov 3, 2015, 04:40 AM
Nov 2015

have my path blocked as someone screams and spits in my face. That's assault. I will press charges...and even defend myself if necessary. JUST WATCH ME.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
5. You're correct, except for the part about choice/voucher schools. That's not about religion...
Tue Nov 3, 2015, 05:52 AM
Nov 2015

... That's about pillaging our education budgets.

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
6. 1. I'm an atheist and I say, proselytizing is a religious right.
Tue Nov 3, 2015, 06:02 AM
Nov 2015

2. Religious rights should not have legal meanings whatsoever as
a) they can be invented, altered, forged and ignored on a whim
b) they have no safeguards, checks or caveats to prevent contradictions within a religious codex
c) there is no definite judicial guideline on what to do when following one religious right from one religious codex violates another religious right from another codex.

Donald Ian Rankin

(13,598 posts)
8. The issue isn't proselytisation per se, it's the state doing it.
Tue Nov 3, 2015, 07:16 AM
Nov 2015

Private citizens absolutely do have a right to proselytise to others, enshrined in the first amendment.

The point is that the state should not, and should not be permitted to, promote any religion or religious position.

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