From: Cory Przybyla (recherchetenet@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 19:46:10 MDT
I was wondering if anyone here knew of any
organization whose goal was to specifically fight
against the proliferation of organized religion,
rather than for support of various alternatives such
as free-thought, atheism, agnosticism, etc?
I'm currently planning on going back to get a
different degree from a college where the students
will be on the whole not particularly well educated
thus far. I'd like to finally become active in the
fight against the trend toward mental terrorism in the
United States.
I specifically want to set up a group/club (hopefully
to expand into something greater) that gives a general
scope of the pressure tactics used by religions, even
peaceful ones, to prevent other views and bring about
new converts. The organization will stress that
people are to be free, and protected as such, to hold
whatever beliefs they want even those considered
irrational or dangerous, so long as they do nothing to
push their views onto unwilling others. There of
course will be an attack on how current democracies
are incapable of allowing for freedom of religion,
when one religion, or similar belief sets, are in a
vast majority. I want to stress the freedom from
religion being a necessity now that freedom of
religion has failed. Even more importantly here, I
want to express that the freedom of religion for a
child is non-existent when parents are allowed to
force their views without any regard. And of course
these children will often grow up with an skewed
perception of reality, and only a small chance of
freeing themselves from their mental bondage.
Again I must stress, this is a search for
organizations that fight solely against organization
of religion, not personal beliefs regardless of how
radical they are. I've thus far come across authors
supporting this view but no sign of a movement for it,
which I find to be a vital step in establishing a
truer free state. Most libertarians might not take
kindly to this notion of state interference, but is it
really a step for the worse.
Thank
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