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Posted - 2011.06.11 16:55:00 -
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 Originally by: Andreus Ixiris
I know that, being an Imperialist, you do not have the neccessary cognitive skills to make the distinction, but criticising someone for having a religion is not the same as suppressing their right to believe in it. My contempt for religion is legendary, yet all members of my corporation, and all of my crewmembers - Intaki, Gallente, Jin-Mei, Minmatar, Amarr, Caldari - know they're allowed to have a religion as long as they practice it in strict privacy. While the moral degeneracy required to conceive of running an Empire on a religion is sickening to behold, it would not be my concern if that religion did not also give you the utterly preposterous delusion you were either obligated or entitled to interfere with the development and affairs of other civilizations. This is what transforms your civilization from a sad example of the folly of theocracy to an active and dangerous nuisance to the world, one that would be better off shattered to a point where it could no longer poison the soil.
They're allowed to hold different beliefs on the condition that their heretical views don't inconvenience your own prejudices? There's no tolerance or freedom in that, and to pretend otherwise is laughable. It's like a holder trying to appear open-minded and liberal by saying that his Minmatar slaves are allowed to maintain their barbarous religion, so long as he doesn't find out about it. There's more to faith than private belief, and to restrict a person's religious freedom to include only private belief is nothing short of spiritual castration.
Of course, this has other unpleasant implications. Because you're so keen to force people of an alternative worldview into the closet... what about those who disagree with you on matters outside of religion? Should members of opposing political parties be allowed to hold their personal beliefs, but be required to keep these alternative beliefs to themselves? If the Gallente Federation dealt with political dissidents in the same manor with you deal with religious ones, then there would be no democracy.
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