# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/81 "2010-06-12T14:16:58Z")
Some people are just plain selfish. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/82 "2010-06-12T14:25:28Z")
Well, over on Christian Forums I keep being told that the Golden Rule is the product of “secular humanism.”\* So, I guess it calls for me to agree to your propostion, **mutuantmoose**. But I should extend you the proper courtesies, so you go first. 🙂 - Yeah, I thought the same thing. Must be we have a bad translation, eh? ---
**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, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/83 "2010-06-12T14:26:10Z")
I wish I had a dime for every time someone whines, “Please don’t kill my family”. ---
**Author:** ![Gustav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@Gustav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gustav)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/84 "2010-06-12T14:26:13Z")
Look, if it makes you feel better this is all part of God’s grand design. If he really didn’t want auntie dead he would have made her an atheist. ---
**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, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/85 "2010-06-12T14:28:29Z")
> [@Gustav](#): > > Look, if it makes you feel better this is all part of God’s grand design. > > If he really didn’t want auntie dead he would have made her an atheist. I was thinking just the opposite. It’s good evidence there is no god if there’s no intervention to save any believers. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/86 "2010-06-12T14:31:26Z")
Great idea. We can kill them one by one until he shows himself! ---
**Author:** ![Sorrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Sorrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sorrel)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/87 "2010-06-12T14:43:55Z")
Re: disposal of bodies. There will be a hell of a lot of books to burn, so I suggest a bonfire, chuck the bodies on top and I’ll bring the marshmallows. Erm, will words like “hell” be permitted in the new dictatorship? ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/88 "2010-06-12T14:44:48Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > My only regret at being killed in the name of Christ would be that I wouldn’t be able to watch the endless wars when atheists start having fights about hard atheist / soft atheist / agnostic / ignostic / whatever. The level of hatred would make anything we religious guys may have done look like a wedgie and the inquisition like detention. > Once you’d defeated the “common enemy” of irrationality, purity would be required and enforced brutally. That’s right, and history shows the majority of the slaughters in the world were between atheists arguing about whether it’s right to be a hard or soft atheist. Yep. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/89 "2010-06-12T14:46:13Z")
> [@mutantmoose](#): > > We’re talking about executing 5 billion people. We’re all going to lose people close to us in this war soldier. I’ve been itching for a fresh start anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/90 "2010-06-12T17:45:21Z")
> [@SoulFrost](#): > > DRAT! Foiled again by the Zombie Solution! Okay, then who’s going to write all the brainless religious rants? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/91 "2010-06-12T18:03:41Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > That’s right, and history shows the majority of the slaughters in the world were between atheists arguing about whether it’s right to be a hard or soft atheist. > Yep. The majority of the slaughters in the world were between people. The reasons for the slaughters were always just excuses - people will always find reasons to kill each other. ---
**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, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/92 "2010-06-12T18:10:13Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Okay, then who’s going to write all the brainless religious rants? The ZCLU. Zombies don’t give up their freedom of expression just because they leave the boneyard. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/93 "2010-06-12T18:15:20Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > The majority of the slaughters in the world were between people. The reasons for the slaughters were always just excuses - people will always find reasons to kill each other. Yeah I’ve heard that many times but somehow I just can’t buy it. Whether or not religion is a convenient excuse doesn’t change the fact that people were, and are still killed for not choosing the right one at the right time, or failing to live up to the conditions of the one they adhere to. It’s just one of the _many_ harmful ideologies out there. I wouldn’t discount the impact just because it’s a symptom and not the disease itself. ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/94 "2010-06-12T18:27:21Z")
Might I suggest that the slaughter of 5 billion people is such a uniquely catastrophic event that the ensuing psychological fallout could easily push large numbers of the survivors into religious ways of reflecting upon the atrocity? I mean, a thing like that… it changes people, you know? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Poster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Happy\_Poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Poster)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/95 "2010-06-12T18:28:52Z")
I don’t see why OP needs to kill all the religious people, if this were a genuine aim. He could just sterlise everyone and wait things out. Why the bloodlust? ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/96 "2010-06-12T18:32:17Z")
Religion isn’t genetic, though. Too many people running around spreading their ideas… ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Poster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Happy\_Poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Poster)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/97 "2010-06-12T18:45:55Z")
Some very large concentration camp then. Greenland? ---
**Author:** ![Gustav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@Gustav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gustav)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/98 "2010-06-12T19:05:10Z")
> [@Indistinguishable](#): > > Might I suggest that the slaughter of 5 billion people is such a uniquely catastrophic event that the ensuing psychological fallout could easily push large numbers of the survivors into religious ways of reflecting upon the atrocity? I mean, a thing like that… it changes people, you know? So… 5.5 billion? ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/99 "2010-06-12T19:13:34Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > Great idea. We can kill them one by one until he shows himself! And then **Der Trihs** will…well, you know what happens then. ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863/100 "2010-06-12T19:17:29Z")
Executing them may be a little overboard. The religious should just be locked away in mental hospitals until they are cured of their delusions. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-religious-people-should-be-executed/542863.md?page=6)