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Israel/Palestine

Ghost Dog

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3. Those people are not reasonable.

Reply to DetlefK (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 9, 2016, 05:07 AM

Jul 2016

Democracy depends on the free exercise of Reason. It should consist of rational decision-making based on accurate information. Let's just say, as a general rule, religions are not like that. They demand faith and obedience based on belief. Democracies could justifiably exclude or disenfranchise, especially when members of militant movements, all the deeply or fanatically or extremely religious from democratic processes, because religions by their very nature are hostile to them.

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