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Bill: Aesthetic Bill 2477 "Belief as an essential element of human orientation and cognition"
Details
Submitted by[?]: "Le Chaim" - Aesthetic Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: August 2478
Description[?]:
| "...Why ban religion? Belief is an essential element of human orientation and cognition. Belief comes before all other forms of world explanation and orientation, belief comes before science and sensuality, once chosen the belief enables to comment all the human existentials from rationality to fleshliness. Human being is not only a mammal, everytime the communists constrict human being to the bare biological fact they ignore everything that makes life worth living it. Human being is more. Every man is able to chose a belief and every man should be free to chose a belief. And after all atheism and agnosticism are also forms of belief in so far as they comment the world, the infinite and a man's position in the world. In fact when you "ban every form of religion" you establish the strongest compulsory state religion, namely a dumb and blinded atheism. [...] Belief is a matter of personal decision and it should stay a matter of personal decision. Let your people chose and let them show their belief because a belief that doesn't manifest is no belief..." Moses Friedman, "Le Chaim" - Party chief ideologist |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Old value:: Foreign missionaries are not permitted to enter the nation.
Current: The government requires foreign missionaries to register with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Proposed: The government has no policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards evangelism and religious advertising.
Old value:: Religions are not permitted to promote themselves or advertise in any manner whatsoever.
Current: Religions are not permitted to promote themselves or advertise in any manner whatsoever.
Proposed: Religions are permitted to freely promote and advertise themselves.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change
Taxation of religious institutions.
Old value:: All religious income, despite the use, is taxed.
Current: Religions are treated as companies, and all profit is taxed, however, charitable donations are not taxed.
Proposed: Recognized religions are not taxed.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The state's policy concerning religious clothing.
Old value:: Wearing religious clothing or religious symbols in public is illegal.
Current: There are no laws regulating the wearing of religious clothing and the wearing of religious symbols.
Proposed: There are no laws regulating the wearing of religious clothing and the wearing of religious symbols.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Religious schools are not allowed.
Current: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
Proposed: Religious schools are allowed, but are strictly regulated. Only recognised religions may set up religious schools.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to prayer in schools.
Old value:: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Current: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning religions.
Old value:: Any form of religion is banned.
Current: There is an official state religion, but membership is completely voluntary.
Proposed: There is no government policy concerning a state religion.
Debate
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| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 109 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 142 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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