Quebec will now ban street prayers as the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) “super-minister” of identity, Jean-François Roberge, has just passed his bill to strengthen secularism.
K, it just seems like you’re dug in at this point. Let me leave you with this. If we had different words for “scientific belief” vs. “religious belief”, I don’t think you’d be trying to make this same point.
If you can’t see how problematic it is for a state to dictate what people can’t believe, that’s a you problem, not a me problem.
No, I get that. Religious freedom is a founding principle of my country, the government has no place telling people what they can and can’t believe. But in our world of reality, that concept has nothing to do with science, is my whole point.
Some religions are specifically about the mystery of the unknown. It sounds like you’re approaching this with a very narrow view of what a religion is. We tend to call that a bias.
Cool, how many people believe in religions like that? How many people believe in religions that follow the scientific method? Yes, I’m most familiar with how Abrahamic religions work because that’s what I grew up around, and that’s the kind of religion that over half the planet participates in. Call that bias if you want, none of that changes the fact that no religion relies on the scientific method, critical and rational thought, and evidence the way science does.
I don’t really feel a need to address anything else you said because, like I said earlier, I agree that freedom of religious expression is important. What I don’t agree with is your attempt to conflate “belief in religion” with “belief in science”.
K, it just seems like you’re dug in at this point. Let me leave you with this. If we had different words for “scientific belief” vs. “religious belief”, I don’t think you’d be trying to make this same point.
No, I get that. Religious freedom is a founding principle of my country, the government has no place telling people what they can and can’t believe. But in our world of reality, that concept has nothing to do with science, is my whole point.
Cool, how many people believe in religions like that? How many people believe in religions that follow the scientific method? Yes, I’m most familiar with how Abrahamic religions work because that’s what I grew up around, and that’s the kind of religion that over half the planet participates in. Call that bias if you want, none of that changes the fact that no religion relies on the scientific method, critical and rational thought, and evidence the way science does.
I don’t really feel a need to address anything else you said because, like I said earlier, I agree that freedom of religious expression is important. What I don’t agree with is your attempt to conflate “belief in religion” with “belief in science”.