# All religious people should be executed **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 12, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863 "2010-06-12T00:15:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/383 "2012-06-11T20:49:43Z")
You should try the corn Hitler. I hear it’s the gas. ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/384 "2012-06-11T21:25:14Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > \ I like thick, creamy Hitler. Ding ding ding - we have a winnah! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/385 "2012-06-11T21:51:49Z")
> [@5f4super](#): > > Let me get this straight: You believe a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father, will let you live forever if you pretend to eat his flesh, drink his blood, and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that he put there a long time ago as punishment for all humanity because a rib-woman made from a dust-man was convinced by a talking snake to eat fruit from a magical tree? That was good, but now come up with your own words. ---
**Author:** ![dngnb8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@dngnb8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dngnb8)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/386 "2012-06-11T22:11:12Z")
> [@emcee2k](#): > > That was good, but now come up with your own words. Do you think he has his own words? ---
**Author:** ![Fuji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/387 "2012-06-11T22:53:16Z")
> [@New\_Deal\_Democrat](#): > > Instead of executing the religious people, one of whom I am, I suggest you execute everyone with a felony conviction. That would get a lot of crime genes out of the gene pool. > > Hang them by slow strangulation, and don’t tie their legs together. I want to watch them kick as they die. 😃 You do realize that was actually tried by many societies, around the world, for centuries up until recently, right? No, of course you don’t, you steaming pantload. Them thar “crime genes” is tricky, y’all. Derp. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![5f4super](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/b5ac83/32.png) [@5f4super](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5f4super)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/388 "2012-06-12T04:47:31Z")
> [@](#): > > I like thick, creamy Hitler. How about thick, creamy boar goodness? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/389 "2012-06-12T04:53:37Z")
I still prefer Hitler on ice. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ybuKQf9p5jg/hqdefault.jpg "Hitler On Ice") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybuKQf9p5jg) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/390 "2012-06-12T14:58:56Z")
Chowder on [Broadway](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K08akOt2kuo). ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/391 "2012-06-12T15:13:32Z")
I like Hitler in a bread bowl. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/392 "2012-06-12T15:25:28Z")
> [@mutantmoose](#): > > The way I’m thinking this is that all of the religious people in the world should be executed. Now I’m aware that there are a lot of religious people in the world - probably the majority. So if the population of the world is 6 billion I would estimate that about maybe 5 billion of them have some sort of religious belief. > > So they would be the ones for the chop. > > I’ve anticipated that there may be some problems with my strategy. For one thing - what about a remote tribe in say South America or Africa where everybody holds unquestioningly to shamanic or animalistic beliefs? I posit that in most of these tribes there will be one person who says “Hmm I dunno about all this stuff. We pray that we’ll kill a big animal today and some days we do and some days we don’t - just seems random to me” > > Now he/she wouldn’t be an atheist according to strict western definitions but I would say - him, we allow to live. The rest of the tribe are executed. > > Admittedly the population of the world would be thinned out dramatically. There would be far fewer people in the world, only 1 billion, but what a billion - quality not quantity. We can finally proceed without having to accede to the insane wishes of religious groups all the time. > > I acknowledge that what I’m proposing is a fairly extreme measure and not without it’s difficulties but imagine what the world would be like after. We may still have political differences but at least the supernatural is out of the equation. You haven’t made a convincing argument that getting rid of religious folks would improve quality at the expense of quantity. What would you do with agnistics who might one day become religious? What makes you think that if you killed all the religious folks (including agnostics) today that some of the athiests wouldn’t become religious or that the next generation wouldn’t be cock full of religious folks. or are you suggesting a periodic culling? I also think you are severely overestimating the number of athiests in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/393 "2012-06-12T15:33:13Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > What would you do with agnistics who might one day become religious? > > What makes you think that if you killed all the religious folks (including agnostics) today that some of the athiests wouldn’t become religious or that the next generation wouldn’t be cock full of religious folks. or are you suggesting a periodic culling? Put a jewel in their palm that glows red if they turn religious. ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/394 "2012-06-12T16:44:56Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > You haven’t made a convincing argument that getting rid of religious folks would improve quality at the expense of quantity. > > What would you do with agnistics who might one day become religious? > > What makes you think that if you killed all the religious folks (including agnostics) today that some of the athiests wouldn’t become religious or that the next generation wouldn’t be cock full of religious folks. or are you suggesting a periodic culling? > > I also think you are severely overestimating the number of athiests in the world. Quit trying to respond to the actual subject matter of the OP. We’ve prgressed on to more important discussions, like chowder and Hitler. None shall derail the chowder/Hitler derailment of this thread! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/395 "2012-06-12T17:35:33Z")
I don’t want any cilantro any where near this thread. Just saying. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/396 "2012-06-12T17:46:02Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Put a jewel in their palm that glows red if they turn religious. What color does it turn if they have chowder? ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/397 "2012-06-12T18:35:49Z")
“That is when I understood the magical meaning of the circle. If you go away from a row, you can still come back into it. A row is an open formation. But a circle closes up, and if you go away from it, there is no way back. It is not by chance that the planets move in circles and that a rock coming loose from one of them goes inexorably away, carried off by centrifugal force. Like a meteorite broken off from a planet, I left the circle and have not stopped falling. Some people are granted their death as they are whirling around, and others are smashed at the end of their fall. And these others (I am one of them) always retain a kind of faint yearning for that lost ring dance, because we are all inhabitants of a universe where everything turns in circles.” — The Book of Laughing and Forgetting, Milan Kundera ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/398 "2012-06-12T19:22:49Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > What color does it turn if they have chowder? Clearly it turns Hitler - have you been paying any attention at all?? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/399 "2012-06-12T20:25:49Z")
> [@otternell](#): > > Clearly it turns Hitler - have you been paying any attention at all?? 🆒 Sorry, the thought of Manhattan Hitler had me distracted. ---
**Author:** ![New\_Deal\_Democrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9d8465/32.png) [@New\_Deal\_Democrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Deal_Democrat)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/400 "2012-06-12T20:27:41Z")
> [@Fuji](#): > > You do realize that was actually tried by many societies, around the world, for centuries up until recently, right? No, of course you don’t, you steaming pantload. > > Them thar “crime genes” is tricky, y’all. Derp. :rolleyes: For the record I do not seriously advocate executing everyone with a felony conviction, just as I hope the OP does not think religious people should be executed. I do favor a continued expansion of the prison population. Since 1980 the prison population has more than tripled, and the crime rate has declined by one third. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/401 "2012-06-12T21:36:29Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Sorry, the thought of Manhattan Hitler had me distracted. Not nearly as much as the thought of Doctor Manhattan Hitler. ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/402 "2012-06-12T23:09:32Z")
> [@New\_Deal\_Democrat](#): > > For the record I do not seriously advocate executing everyone with a felony conviction, just as I hope the OP does not think religious people should be executed. I do favor a continued expansion of the prison population. Since 1980 the prison population has more than tripled, and the crime rate has declined by one third. Yes, because things that happen around the same time are always related. That’s why I attribute the drop in the US crime rate since 1980 to the release of Pac Man. I know I’m being stupid, but not because there’s no proof of a link. No, because the crime rate kept climbing [until 1991 or so](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_crime_rate). I bet it’s because that’s when Eastern Airlines shut down. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863.md?page=21)