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Bill: Communist Bill: Abolition of Religion - The Opiate of the People
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Socialist Union
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: October 2533
Description[?]:
| Let us destroy organised religion before it destroys us with its lies and hatemongering. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Old value:: The government has no policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Current: The government requires foreign missionaries to register with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Proposed: Foreign missionaries are not permitted to enter the nation.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards evangelism and religious advertising.
Old value:: Religions are permitted to freely promote and advertise themselves.
Current: Religions are not permitted to promote themselves or advertise in any manner whatsoever.
Proposed: Religions are not permitted to promote themselves or advertise in any manner whatsoever.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Only recognised religions may set up religious schools, with no regulations.
Current: Any religion may set up a school, but they are strictly regulated.
Proposed: Religious schools are not allowed.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to prayer in schools.
Old value:: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden, except in religious schools.
Current: The government leaves this decision up to the schools themselves.
Proposed: Teacher-led prayers in schools are forbidden.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning religions.
Old value:: There is no government policy concerning a state religion.
Current: There is an official state religion, but membership is completely voluntary.
Proposed: Any form of religion is banned.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:14:37, February 16, 2008 CET | From | Metek-to-Shei Movement | To | Debating the Communist Bill: Abolition of Religion - The Opiate of the People |
| Message | This goes against everything we stand for, a blanket ban on religion is a blanket ban on culture and life. You destroyers of faith are the reason our movement must exist. |
| Date | 09:47:35, February 16, 2008 CET | From | "Le Chaim" - Aesthetic Party | To | Debating the Communist Bill: Abolition of Religion - The Opiate of the People |
| Message | This is a thoughtless attack on freedom of belief, on freedom of man, on human being itself. Belief has a special place in a man's life. A belief, as the corpus of opinions concerning the world, the man's place in the world, moral values, metaphysical explanation, and many more, a belief comes before all other determinations and actions. Belief gives sense to science, culture, everyday life. Belief allows to estimate and rate all aspects of life. Belief is the pair of glasses that enables all the aspects of human life. And do not forget that atheism and agnosticism are forms of belief too, as they are stances on the world, on human being and a man's place in the world. So if you ban every form of religion you in fact establish the strongest compulsive state religion of all, namely a dumb and blinded atheism. You force your belief on the people, and that is nothing better than some medieval theocracy and inquisition... |
| Date | 15:40:26, February 16, 2008 CET | From | Groene ArbeidersPartij | To | Debating the Communist Bill: Abolition of Religion - The Opiate of the People |
| Message | We have nothing more to add, since our opinion totally matches with the Aesthetic pary on this. This bill is an outrage. |
| Date | 16:06:16, February 16, 2008 CET | From | National Royalist Party | To | Debating the Communist Bill: Abolition of Religion - The Opiate of the People |
| Message | May God forgive you, I certainly cannot... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 72 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 229 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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