[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=CA renter]I would never tell you what to do with your body, nor would I tell you what you should believe.
Again, why do you think your religious freedoms give you the right to dictate to others what they should do with their own bodies?[/quote]
I suppose all societies tell people how to live one way or the other and call it either law or tax incentive or religious doctrine and provide punishments large and small to move you along
But just because something provides an incentive doesn’t make it a “religion” just because we say so.
And the constitution seems to want to keep religions out of govt decisionmaking. Maybe if everything is characterized as a religion there will be no basis for gvt. Decisionmaking and gov. Can shrink down to an instinctive amoeba.[/quote]
It’s one thing to provide incentives, and another to force someone to do something so intensely personal and life-altering as having (or not having) a baby.
Personally, I don’t think that laws, whether religious or secular, should tell people what to do with their own bodies or within their own homes unless someone else is likely to be harmed by that person’s actions.
It seems that religious and governmental powers have often been the same, or at least closely intertwined, throughout history. It’s easier to control the masses’ behaviors when you control disposition of their souls. The whole point of either government or religion is to control large, unwieldy numbers of people.
