Germany mulls introducing 'mosque tax' for Muslims

[EmperorScorpious]

I really hope you have great health insurance.

Maybe life insurance, too.

[Agent48]

As long as the tax is generated by the mosques and not the german people that is fine. They should also target islamic schools too which a breeding ground for intolerance.

[Death-trooper]

Like Fucking Clockwork. Jesus Christ.

[Hoetaku]

i thought the fact that i was joking would be obvious
irl I actually cut soda out of my diet a few months ago. sugary treats are next but im waiting til after the holidays

[EmperorScorpious]

Tone for humor is lost in text.

[Techno Grub]

You're making a blanket statement that religion shouldn't be treated any differently than what - cigarettes, tobacco, etc? That's silly alright.

Why take such a fedora-tipping approach to your dissatisfaction of religion by comparing it to cancer, and not just say all religion should be banned instead? Let's get serious.

[Gook Nukem]

I don't think it's silly at all. Organized religion has been the death of more people than tobacco, all drugs ever combined, and all pollution related death combined most likely. It's equally unhealthy, if not more unhealthy, than things we already tax as regulation.

Banning religion is a violation of people's liberties and their right to worship or follow any faith they like is theirs and theirs alone. Maybe banning public displays of, or public attractions of, organized religion. Legislation to enforce people being allowed to practice religion only in their own home is a possibility too.

[Techno Grub]

Religion doesn't harm you on a cellular/molecular level though, like literally harming your organs when you "intake" religion.

I don't really give a shit about people's liberties and the right to worship specifically though. All of it should be banned, and I'm wondering how did anyone come up with the idea of God in the first place? Like, the first man or woman to do so.

[EmperorScorpious]

[citation needed]

[Gook Nukem]

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Religious_war#/The_concept_of_%22Holy_War%22_in_individual_religious_traditions

Deaths | Tobacco Atlas
https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates
http://time.com/4989641/water-air-pollution-deaths/

Religion is notorious for expediting death

[EmperorScorpious]

Plenty of people have done horrible things in the name of religion, but you specifically said organized religion, as in the religious institutes themselves, have killed more people.

If I commit a crime as a layman and say I was inspired by my faith to do it, that doesn't automatically mean my church told me to do it or if a priest/pastor did the crime itself.

I'm sure there are plenty of actual priests/pastors that have probably killed people throughout the centuries, but I sincerely doubt they hit the numbers to compare with tobacco, drugs, and pollution.

[Purple Magpie]

I think he meant shit like the crusades, and ISIS.