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Thread #106685   Message #2222393
Posted By: Amos
25-Dec-07 - 01:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: There aren't any Gods (not even Jesus)
Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any Gods (not even Jesus)
The issue of the commons has to do with acts, not beliefs. The point at which religious "realities" come under the law of civil conduct is the point when actions violating the civil code of conduct are committed.

Those acts are fully covered by civil law and should be prosecuted on those grounds as civil torts or criminal acts. Such consequences should have no traffic with the religious or other convictions behind the acts. Anymore than the delusory hallucinations prompting a random assault against a stranger have anythjing to do with the facts of the crime.

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