Blog Against Theocracy

[William T Goodall]

On 21 Mar 2008, at 21:59, Andrew Crystall wrote:
> On 21 Mar 2008 at 18:23, William T Goodall wrote:
>
>> The only effective way of separating church and state is to forbid
>> those infected with religion from voting or holding political office.
>
> So basically you're for severely restricting the franchise. Funny,
> when it was expanded it was done in the name of liberty and equality
> among people, if you contact it...


The USA already restricts the franchise by (in many states) removing  
the right to vote from people with criminal convictions and from those  
deemed mentally ill or incapable.

Extending this restriction to those incapable of telling infantile  
superstition from reality seems perfectly sensible.

Invisible pink unicorns Maru.

-- 
William T Goodall
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I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great  
evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. -  
Richard Dawkins