Should society continue to attack religion and keep it from growing?
345915
No, but I think religion should be a personal practice and have NOTHING to do with the government at all. Until that happens, yes it should be repressed from all governmental function.
330078
But taking God out of society always leads to repression and destruction of society. do not have to look any further then Nazi's Chinese Russians Vietnam . for people not to learn from their mistakes....
345072
THERE PROBABLY AGAINST CHRISTIANITY AND WE SHOULDN'T WORRY LET THEM DO THERE THING
1167903
Only through education will we rid ourselves of the virus that is religion.  Ignorance and social acceptance will be the end of us if we don't grow out of this phase.  As you are reading this, overly religious countries are refining nuclear fuel.  It will only be a matter of time until someone sets off a nuclear bomb in the name of their God.  This is our future unless we can outgrow this nonsense!
582958
Baptists, Evangelists, Mormons, Lutherans...you could go on forever, there is always some new fad coming in. It's just another reason to argue and kill people who don't believe the same.
1038273
I think the government should stay out of Religion and Marriage since it is usually a religious act.  On the other hand, every religion in the world has a set of morals (minus the demonic types or extremists) which involve not killing others and be nice to people, which I think the governments of the world should take notice of. Does that make since?  \nSo, yes, religion is a personal belief and should not affect the government in such a way as it currently is.  I also feel that a candidate's religion should not be public so that people will vote for him or her based on their intentions for the US rather than "oh he's a good Christian man"
1009031
I believe within the next hundred years, religion as a whole will finally become regarded as nonsense, except for a few fundamentalist holdouts.\n\nIt will stop influencing our politics and so forth, and be reduced to small communities who will shut themselves off from the rest of the world (to keep from hearing the truth).\n\nThese small communities will be nothing more than remnants of the old days, and will basically be reduced to the basics of what they truly are... cults.\n\nAnd these cults will either die off, have mass suicides, or try to kill the rest of us, before they are finally outlawed.\n\nSo yes, the end is near.  And so is the beginning.  :)
378901
Religion is a tool for mass control and like every tool it can be used for the purpose of good and evil depends on who's using it.
1007869
Good point. That's all they do. Brainwashing people specially young and naive. and they always use a form of religion to do that. Don't forget religion could be very dangerous.
1018892
Organized religion is the culprit.
463021
I think that people should stop condemning other people because of their own beliefs. If what someone else is doing does not physically affect you or any one else, mind your own business. No one person or their religious beliefs run this country, and that is why religion and government can not be mixed and should not be mixed>>>>>>>>>>>>.
342409
no, people just use religion as a cover for their bigotry. if it weren't for religion, they would just find something else to fall back on.
1078656
Absolutely. We do live in country that supports both free speech and freedom of religion. Being so, each religion is going to get bashed once in a while, even Christianity. But that's America. Land of the free. Atheists can say what they want, as long they aren't encouraging violent acts on people, and the same goes to theists to. I mean the KKK has their own website. There isn't much we can do about the promotion of hate. It's going to happen. The least people could do is ignore the message, but pay attention to the words. Again, I will say it:\n\nAS LONG AS A PERSON IS NOT INCITING VIOLENT ACTS, THEY ARE FULLY PROTECTED UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
582184
Throughout history people have been fighting over religion. It is very unfortunate
539429
Religion seems to be used for social control.  Still, I live and let live as long as a theocracy is not promoted and established.  So far, here in the US, we still have freedom FROM religion too.  I'd like to keep it that way.
1077999
i think it would be much worse coz there will be no guidance on how people should behave... we will be like those caveman years again always killing each other... religion today is much more like business but the true essence of religion is how to make people better
686292
If everyone had to wait until 25 to chose a religion then religion would adapt to this.  The reason right now that little kids are herded into religion is that religious beliefs are that the sooner you are taught "The Way" the less mistakes you will make in life.