# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Dostoyevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Dostoyevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dostoyevsky)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/41 "2010-06-12T01:56:51Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > There is nothing more democratic than volunteerism. The opposite is true, which is why you almost never meet a Libertarian fond of democracy. Democracy is about mandates pertaining to minorities. In this case, that would be you. And me. ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/42 "2010-06-12T02:01:18Z")
Fruitless attempt at logic I know: 1. Religion is evil. Look at the evil perpetrated in the name of religion. 2. Let’s kill’em all and let non-god sort it out 3. How is 2) not evil? **mutantmoose** (and likeminded) if ever, as an atheist, you posit in a discussion that all atrocities have been committed in the name of religion - if ever you cringe when someone suggests that Hitler was an atheist as a suggestion to his motives - reflect on what you are suggesting. To paraphrase the great prophet Bon Jovi: you give atheism a bad name. This atheist condemns such thoughts as barbaric, inhuman, and stupid beyond belief. ---
**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, 2010, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/43 "2010-06-12T02:02:51Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Than who am I gonna fuck? The better preserved zombies? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/44 "2010-06-12T02:05:21Z")
[quote=“Dostoyevsky, post:41, topic:542863”] The opposite is true, which is why you almost never meet a Libertarian fond of democracy. Democracy is about mandates pertaining to minorities…QUOTE] WTF does this mean? Are you saying democracy is about limits to what can be done to or against minorities? Democracy is not at all about that. Limits are put in place to _prevent_ an absolute democracy, which may tend to ignore or eliminate the rights of monorities. But perhaps I am misunderstanding your meaning. ---
**Author:** ![Dostoyevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Dostoyevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dostoyevsky)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/45 "2010-06-12T02:09:33Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Limits are put in place to _prevent_ an absolute democracy, which may tend to ignore or eliminate the rights of monorities. [/quote] Agreed. Which is why this: > [@Boyo Jim](#): > > There is nothing more democratic than volunteerism. is wrong. From a dissenting minority’s viewpoint there’s nothing more antithetical to volunteerism than democracy. ---
**Author:** ![Chief\_Pedant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Chief\_Pedant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Pedant)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/46 "2010-06-12T02:19:48Z")
The problem with religion is that, although much evil has been done in its name, even more would be done in a world without the modifying influence of religion. Indeed, the term “evil” can be said to have achieved meaning because of religion. Without the (admittedly arbitrary) standard established by religion, there is no “evil.” A world without religion is not a paradise of secular humanists living gently together. It’s a dog-eat-dog world of moral-less strong overpowering the weak and consuming as their power allows. Adhering to a basic notion of Right and Wrong is what keeps us from being like the other animals; it is the only check on our natural aggression and narcissism. I should like to see just such a world as you propose so that I could enjoy the surprise on the part of those smug enough to paint all religion as net bad. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/47 "2010-06-12T02:20:31Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > **“All religious people should be executed”** > > I’m in! We can start with the black ones. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/48 "2010-06-12T02:45:20Z")
> [@Laudenum](#): > > While I’m an Athiest myself, I would hate to live in a world ruled by rabid Athiests, and where religion is banned. As I’m an **Atheist** myself, I too would hate to live in a world ruled by rabid **Athiests** , so I say let’s kill them off along with the religious nutters. [Quote=mutantmoose] 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. [/Quote] I bet the lines at the DMV would be just as long after, though. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/49 "2010-06-12T02:46:07Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > We can start with the black ones. Also the children. Can’t have them little religious brats running around. Grandmothers also. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/50 "2010-06-12T02:53:43Z")
> [@mutantmoose](#): > > Admittedly the population of the world would be thinned out dramatically. You saying religious people are fat? ---
**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, 2010, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/51 "2010-06-12T02:56:01Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > You saying religious people are fat? It’s all that baby eating. I mean, just look at how pudgy babies are, that’s gotta be fattening. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/52 "2010-06-12T02:56:34Z")
If we really want a better world, let’s kill everyone who believes that we should kill people who think differently than us. Because they’re the monsters. The rest of us can live much better lives without murderous ideologues running around. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/53 "2010-06-12T02:57:14Z")
> [@NinetyWt](#): > > 1. There won’t be enough atheists to bury/dispose of the dead. Buzzards got to eat, same as worms. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/54 "2010-06-12T03:18:40Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Buzzards got to eat, same as worms. Finally, a voice of sanity and reason. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/55 "2010-06-12T03:22:03Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > We can start with the black ones. You can _try_. Last I checked, melanin deficiency does not stop bullets. ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/56 "2010-06-12T03:25:26Z")
Can’t do it. Never work. If you kill all the religious people, who’s gonna preach at all those funerals? ---
**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, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/57 "2010-06-12T03:31:27Z")
> [@SoulFrost](#): > > Can’t do it. Never work. > > If you kill all the religious people, who’s gonna preach at all those funerals? Zombie preachers. There are few problems that can’t be solved with a deft application of zombies. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/58 "2010-06-12T03:44:41Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > “You are a religious person?” > [@Oakminster](#): > > No, but I live in the buckle of the Bible belt. Many of my family members, friends, coworkers, and frankly, damn near everyone else in this part of the country is religious to some degree. I object rather strongly to the notion that they should be killed, or are otherwise poor company, because they are religious. I think Marley was saying that you can insult him by calling him a religious person. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/59 "2010-06-12T03:51:05Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Zombie preachers. > > There are few problems that can’t be solved with a deft application of zombies. This is going in my signature. I love it. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/60 "2010-06-12T03:53:08Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > I think Marley was saying that you can insult him by calling him a religious person. Oh. That would explain that whooshing sound, then. :o [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863.md?page=4)