The privileges enjoyed by religion should be outlawed.

The privileges enjoyed by religion should be outlawed.

Started
11 March 2020
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the prime minister.
Signatures: 34Next Goal: 50
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Why this petition matters

Started by Ralph Musgrave

You won’t be arrested for saying “All Tories are idiots”, but if you said “All Muslims are idiots”, you could be done for “hate speech”. Why should Islam or any other religion enjoy that favoured status?  As the National Secular Society says, religion enjoys a privileged position.

Those privileges are absurd in view of the wars and massacres caused by religion and the non-existent achievements of religion compared to the amazing achievements of 21st century science, the social security system, etc.

Worse still, religious literature itself is full of “hate speech” including outright racism. For example the Koran says “Believers, take neither Jews nor Christians for your friends. (5.51)”. And: “Unbelievers shall be driven into Hell. (3.8) (The term “unbelievers” in the Koran includes Christians (5.72)).

And Christians are not much better: what about those Catholic priests who do strange things with under-age boys and girls?

This petition does not oppose religion as such. It’s just the privileges enjoyed by religion that must be abolished.

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