Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-174.22.192.132-20161104024309/@comment-26322120-20161208004355

Rocket Engineer wrote: Being an atheist doesn't mean you don't take moral values from existing religions. It's rather difficult to show that religion isn't needed for moral values because religion has existed for literally all of human history. I'm not claiming religion hasn't caused war and strife, but without it we'd be a lot worse off.

When religion gets mixed with politics, you get things like our Constitution. I believe you are using "No evidence against this makes it true" logic. I (being an atheist-agnostic) have worked out my own moral rules, which I have been fairly careful not to let outside ideas influence. But more to the point, whether or not "morality" stemmed from religion doesn't have any significance as to whether people today cannot make "moral decisions" without being religious.

In ways that is probably true (that in the long run, humanity would be worse off without religion), but I again fail to realize what significance this has as to whether or not religion has a place in politics.

You claim that the Constitution was a product of religion being mixed with politics? Why do you say that? The first amendment literally prohibits laws being made for religious reasons.

How would you feel if Muslims voted to prohibit wearing the color yellow, because they believed it was a sin?