>>>Alex, you've disappointed me.
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>>Why?
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>Because of "Eventually, murder will not be a crime because that would indicate that the government agrees with religion."
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>It looks as though you seriously believe that lack of religion equals licence to kill. IOW, that religion has monopoly on morality.
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>We've had a couple of lengthy threads here where this matter was disputed, and I didn't have an impression you were absent then, or on the wrong side of the matter.
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>Murder is still wrong, despite the fact that most religions forbid it :).

Hi Dragan!

You obviously misinterpreted what I said. I don't think that religion has a monopoly on morality. You can be moral without religion (just as much as you can be an amoral religious sob).

I find the zealousness with which some try and succeed at finding connections between state and church excessive to the point of stupidity.

Stupidity, as we all know, knows no limits, and when government gets involved in something whose stupidity level is newsworthy, those limits tend to be reached quite rapidly, or at least seem very well within reach.

Some people have enough time in their hands to advocate for the elimination of ANY semblance of religion from anything government-related with the church-state connection excuse.

If we go to extremes with this, I can see people interpreting the government's position on murder as being in agreement with the old testament. In no time, this would be in some lawyer's agenda, a law suit will be filed, and we'll soon find the government making all sort of excuses to prosecute a murderer and not make it look like a religious event.

I guess that while tax dollars are spent in Iraq (or is it Irak?) and to build bridges in Alaska like the one from Ketchikan to Gravina Island, we're safe from other stupidities to make it into the agendas of our fine polititians.

BTW, I too find murder to be wrong; make no mistake about it.

Have fun and sorry for the confusion!

Alex