Do you not trust the judgement of your fellow citizens and yourself to know good from evil?PsYcHo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 02, 2018 2:43 am So how much money and resources should go into determining whether a church is lying about another church? Or just in general, if a "religion" is fraudulent?
I think everyone on this thread agrees that intentionally lying for any of the reasons a church/religion may do so is wrong, but there is a vast divide on what should be done about it, plus a divide on whether its occurrence is intentional.
Do we need church police sitting in all congregations, asking to see a full explanation of all sermons to be filed in case of legal challenges, complete with biblical footnotes?
Should infractions start with a fine, and eventually lead to higher fines up to and including incarceration?
How would we legislate such laws across differing religions? Muslims have many differing views. If one mosque preaches tolerance and declares another mosque to not be following the teachings of the Prophet, but the "intolerant" mosque is found to have more closely followed the Koran, what fines/penalties should be imposed upon the tolerant mosque?; they were the fraudulent ones in this scenario.
What about Hinduism? Their religion is vast, with differing deities, and they have been arguing for thousands of years. How should the government solve conflicts between followers of Vishnu making claims about followers of Ganesha, who in turn make claims against followers of Brahma?
Government intervention is not a solution to this problem.
It is easy to tell when a society profits or not. Is Inquisitions and Jihads good or evil?
Your justice and governments have much expertise in judging good from evil.
Your answer shows you know good from evil. So do your neighbors.
If not, the intelligential and oligarchs who run the real world from within the masses will soon buy a new reality.
All that mouthful aside for the moment.
You said you see a huge divide.
Where you see division I see unity and the first intervention is just coercion to not say whatever offended in the same way. This would benefit the churches as they would have to provide a clear ideology.
Religions have a need to hate. The secular side of us need to know who represents which Gods.
Win, win, win.
Regards
DL