All religious people should be executed

[Kimballkid]

You should try the corn Hitler. I hear it’s the gas.

[otternell]

@tdn

<Snip> I like thick, creamy Hitler.

Ding ding ding - we have a winnah!

[emcee2k]

@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.

[dngnb8]

@emcee2k

That was good, but now come up with your own words.

Do you think he has his own words?

[Fuji]

@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:

[5f4super]

I like thick, creamy Hitler.

How about thick, creamy boar goodness?

[GIGObuster]

I still prefer Hitler on ice.

Hitler On Ice

[tdn]

Chowder on Broadway.

[Darth_Panda]

I like Hitler in a bread bowl.

[Damuri_Ajashi]

@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.

[Der_Trihs]

@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.

[otternell]

@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!

[armedmonkey]

I don’t want any cilantro any where near this thread.

Just saying.

[tdn]

@Der_Trihs

Put a jewel in their palm that glows red if they turn religious.

What color does it turn if they have chowder?

[Ulfreida]

“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

[otternell]

@tdn

What color does it turn if they have chowder?

Clearly it turns Hitler - have you been paying any attention at all??

[tdn]

@otternell

Clearly it turns Hitler - have you been paying any attention at all??

Sorry, the thought of Manhattan Hitler had me distracted.

[New_Deal_Democrat]

@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.

[Darth_Panda]

@tdn

Sorry, the thought of Manhattan Hitler had me distracted.

Not nearly as much as the thought of Doctor Manhattan Hitler.

[Dave_Hartwick]

@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. I bet it’s because that’s when Eastern Airlines shut down.