Should Atheism be made illegal?

Self evident question.

It would absolutely save a lot of time the courts are wasting.

Do the kids still say "LOL!"?

Thought police?
How can you outlaw thought?
Gee , whats next?
Depression is terrible
Hmm
Lets make depression illegal, yea, that's the answer. Problem solved
LOL

Quote: FrGamble

Self evident question.

To make it illegal, you'd have to force
people into a religion. Forced conversion?
Why does that sound so familiar.

Oh yeah, I remember now.

'After the forced conversion and the all former Muslims and Jews nominally became Catholic, the Spanish Inquisition targeted primarily forced converts from Judaism who came under suspicion of either continuing to adhere to their old religion or of having fallen back into it.'

The Church love to force conversions. Is that
what you want to go back to?

Quote: Evenbob

To make it illegal, you'd have to force
people into a religion. Forced conversion?

Not necessarily. All one would have to do is engage their brains enough to use any of the arguments for God's existence such as the impossibility of an infinite regress, something that began to exist needs a creator, the fine tuning of the universal laws, the existence of good and bad, the cause of motion must be a first mover, contingent things need an non-contingent cause, etc., etc.

You don't need to believe in any religion, just that there is a God or a Higher Power type of thing. That is good enough.

Quote: FrGamble

You don't need to believe in any religion, just that there is a God or a Higher Power type of thing. That is good enough.

That is why some of the twelve steppers say "doorknob" instead of God or Higher Power.

Note: Making atheism illegal would probably be a boon to society. Its like making saline water illegal, people will start injecting placebos once the government runs an ad campaign against street sales of 'cebos.

Saying the same things over and over again won't make them any more true.

The fine tuning of universal laws? Do you look at a pitcher of water and wonder how the pitcher could have been so perfectly formed in order to fit the shape of the water?

The laws of the universe came first, and life found a way to survive, not the other way around. Life and its requirements to live did not exist first and have a universe formed around it in which it could survive.

Cool, where did these laws of the universe come from?

Quote: FrGamble

use any of the arguments for God's existence .

You mean the non arguments that never
convince anybody that doesn't want to
be convinced? I'll say it again, the only
reason you believe in god is because
you were taught to as a child. I don't
blame you, brainwashing is very effective
on kids, that's why it's used. Of course
you don't believe you were brainwashed,
that's part of the delusion.

You think I'm joking and I'm absolutely not.
To an atheist, Christians have a screw
loose, as they used to say. We tolerate
them because they usually don't cause
trouble. They putter about in their little
ways, entertaining themselves with their
silly myths. Mark Twain called it tinkering.
He said it seems to please Christians to
tinker around with their religion and at
least it keeps them off the streets.