Off Topic — HabitableZone

Off Topic » in reply to The First Amendment protects all kinds of beliefs, including yours.

I said discourage religion, not banish it

and we should take away any and all undeserved accomodations to religious groups that infringe upon the rights of other, rational citizens.

It would be the ultimate irony if the Amish were one day denied the vote not due to any voting law but rather their unwillingness to use modern electronic voting machines to record their vote. And the states of Ohio and Pennsylvania would be perfectly right and wise to mandate the upgrade of all voting procedures statewide, in the name of more accurate, unbiased - and modern - vote tallying, regardless of the silly views of the backwards Amish. They have no right to impose their primitiveness on the rest of the citizens of the town, county, or state in which they reside.

Honestly, the likes of the Amish in this world aren't that complicated, and you don't need a Phd in anthropology or history to clearly understand that they're crazy religious people who interprete an ancient superstitous book in a manner to lead them to shun modernity. If they insist on clinging to their backwards ways the world shall leave them behind, their culture will go extinct, and good riddance. I see nothing of value there, beyond entertainment value of course.

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