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Quebec passes secularism law banning street prayers and prayer rooms in universities
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this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2026
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As an atheist, albeit an American one, I believe that we should restrict all worship and prayer to the privacy of one's home, exclusively.
so, anti-freedom then? I can understand not allowing proselytizing, but this reads to me like de facto anti-muslim legislation.
If you ban all other public speech trying to sell me on anything, I might get behind it. Targeting religion specifically is a bit sus.
More about trying to throttle Christianity, but tbh religion is religion and they're all bad.
If it disproportionately targets Muslims then you could also argue that they disproportionately use public spaces to practice their religion.
Even an Islamic country like Uzbekistan is cracking down on stuff like this out of fear for radicalism: https://asiaplus.news/en/2023/09/18/uzbekistan-authorities-tighten-measures-against-beard-and-hijab-wearing/
The West is way too naive about the growing influence of Islam in its politics and institutions. The Muslim Brotherhood is banned in most of the Middle East. Europe is just now starting to wake up to the threat of this insidious group.
"The State's jackboot is oppression...unless it is wearing my preferred socks!"
So places of worship are illegal too?
Fuck them homeless people right?
What's all that prayer doing for them?
There wont be homeless people if only atheists existed
Putting aside how dumb of a statement that is, will the state be mandating homes and forcing people into them? If they have to do that just to accommodate my private beliefs, how is that different than a prayer room in public? Should I be arrested if I'm homeless by choice or want to live out of a tent in the woods?
Just skip the argument to state enforced atheism and don't pretend this line of thought is rational and secular.
Nobody told you about forcing someone to become atheist. I don't want to waste time on such stupid people like you. Blocked
A well reasoned and logical reply. Completely air tight argument. We've got an enlightened free thinker over here!
There are enough of us that if we cared to we could solve it. We don't.
I mean hypothetical world if everyone was smart enough to not believe at least everything. If course my statement is close to impossible
The main problem is amoguses that support our enemies out of ignorance
I just don't think that being right makes you more moral or compassionate. Those are separate vectors, there's no useful kind/religious axis we can map here.
I do believe there is correlation. I can bet my life there is a correlation
I get that you're very sure you're right. But you're one person. If I was going to choose to believe things based on how many people were very sure they are right, I'd still be Christian.
I left the church because I saw no evidence it made people better. I see no evidence that any other religion or lack of one does either. It just changes the excuses people use to be cruel to each other.
Most homeless have mental health problems, its not really an issue of acquiring a house but them ripping out the pipes to buy drugs.
The problem behind this logic is that you will eventually have to contend with identity politics because without a visible structure for worship, people will inevitably begin to organise in secret and decentralise. Decentralised religion is worse and that's how you create cults like the Nation of Islam and Klu Klux Klan who have nothing to do with the religions they originate from.
Then, there is the problem that every human is influenced by a set of beliefs or experiences that they are exposed to growing up. If they see and observe that the government is the sole power of the realm, then they will be incentivised to pursue and claim that seat of power if given the opportunity arises, and doing so knowingly means they are beholden to no law or people beneath their station.
If you had your way, you'd strengthen the church and religion. They thrive under oppression and all Abrahamics adore martyrdom.
As an atheist, just let them die on their own. Every year there are less and less of them.