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Bill: ARM -= Religion =-
Details
Submitted by[?]: Archon Revolutionary Militia
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: January 2573
Description[?]:
| "1) Organized religion is a form of business. A religion offers to the people a sense of "religious fulfillment" in return for "donations" they strongly encourage you to give (or you'll burn in hell for greed, they tell you in order to scare you into contribution). Of course, although a great deal of the funds do go to charity (often towards preaching against the "evils" of condom-use to AIDS-infested third-world countries, which is a form of genocide in its own right), many ministers make millions off of these businesses, and live in mansions, have private jets, etc. As such, these corporations should be taxed, just like all the others. Furthermore, missionaries, who are basically just salesmen and women, should not be restricted from entering or leaving the nation. We would not restrict an automobile salesman or woman from entering Beiteynu just because we personally think his or her car company "sucks," would we? 2) The government should not intervene in religion. It should not have a state religion, no matter how voluntary and discreet, and it should not choose which religions get taxed and which don't get taxed based upon religious "recognition." 3) Religious schools violate freedom of religion. Parents place their children into these religious schools at young ages, where they will be brain-numbingly indoctrinated into a trance-like zombie state of closed-mindedness, where the only logic they know is their self-contradictory holy texts. The mind of a minor is not fully developed. As such, the minor cannot be expected to make the choice of whether or not to believe in something. This higher level of thinking is best left to the adult brain. Indoctrinating children at young ages is violating the right to think and the right to make up one's mind by making the decision before the brain has the chance to develop and say "no." It violates the freedom of religion and to believe whatever one wants. There is no such thing as a "Jewish child," a "Muslim child," or a "Christian child." These children do not fully understand the concepts of which they are being taught. As an evolutionary advantage, the mind of a child cleverly believes whatever figures of authority tell it, no matter how irrational. And this makes perfect sense - a child cannot test whether or not it will survive the fall off the cliff in front of it, as any such experimentation would surely result in death; any species that had children that did test everything with trial and error would become extinct VERY quickly. When a parent tells a child about religion, the child is going to believe the parent without any questions or doubts, as this is simply an essential feature of the child's mind, programmed by tens of thousands of years of evolution. Religion, or the lack thereof, should not be a choice made by one's parents. It is a personal choice to be made by the individual, and religious schools are nothing short of mind control and violate the freedom of religion. 4) Even if it were moral for religious schools to exist, prayer in public schools are not. When prayers are held in public schools, the prayers are ultimately dedicated to one religion, and this is violating the other children and their religions. To force them to leave the room or some similar action only alienates and isolates them, and creates psychological disturbances, and generates religious tensions between different systems of belief. Public school prayer must be abolished." -Judy Gottlos, Head Archon of the ARM |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Old value:: The government selectively screens which religions are permitted to send missionaries to the nation. Certain religions are approved and travel is unregulated.
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
Taxation of religious institutions.
Old value:: Recognized religions are not taxed.
Current: Recognized religions are not taxed.
Proposed: Religions are treated as companies, and all profit is taxed, however, charitable donations are not taxed.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The governments stance on religious schools.
Old value:: Religious schools are allowed, but are strictly regulated. Only recognised religions may set up religious schools.
Current: Religious schools are allowed, but are strictly regulated. Only recognised religions may set up religious schools.
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 encouraged.
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 an official state religion, but membership is completely voluntary.
Current: There is an official state religion, but membership is completely voluntary.
Proposed: There is no government policy concerning a state religion.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:12:34, May 06, 2008 CET | From | Am Echad, Pays Libre | To | Debating the ARM -= Religion =- |
| Message | This is nothing bu GJA scum. Remove this thing from the knesset! --David Ben-Rishon, CZP, Tadriaki, Yishelem |
| Date | 20:46:46, May 07, 2008 CET | From | Archon Revolutionary Militia | To | Debating the ARM -= Religion =- |
| Message | "Have you already forgotten that the ARM is composed of irreligious people as well? Were you not paying attention to national events when we, original members of the GJA, subverted and took over the NSA and purged it of its deceitful subversives and replaced it with other Atheists and Agnostics who are more loyal to the state? We'll be sure to bring this up after the next election." -Judy Gottlos, Head Archon of the ARM |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 104 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 248 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 48 |
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