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RayW
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join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
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 ·XMission
| reply to major marco
Re: Hello and Welcome to Technology!
said by major marco  :This is as tedious and stupid as the country of Australia AND the Mormons in Utah attempting to filter the Internet. Maybe Minnesota needs to secede from the Union and form their own country with Utah and Texas? Then all the fundie religious fanatics and other nutjobs can all live together in one big, happy, filtered existence without being bothered by ::REALITY:: Just goes to show how little you know, but then the internet is a great device for reading about what is not true, and in many cases, ignorant ranting.
The LDS church (Mormons to you) does not affect my surfing at all. Talking to my neighbors, some of them have signed on to an ISP run by the LDS church that does do what you are accusing them of doing, however, and this is a BIG HOWEVER, they choose to do so and are not forced to like you imply (and several have said they like it, others have very mixed opinions). I know you hate the thought that some folks have freedom of choice and can exercise it, but that is one of the concepts that this country SUPPOSEDLY was founded under.
I get all the porn spam I can puke at, as well as the various physical enhancements that only a fool would respond too, and the Win a Million Dollars at an offshore ripoff casino garbage. But then again, I am not on their ISP, I use Xmission, a private firm that lets us decide what filtering to use.
Oh, you did make one statement that has some partial truth...."This is as tedious and stupid", too bad you went off into a stupor at the point instead of making a reasoned argument (of which there are even several easy ones).
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bngdup
join:2007-02-20
Old Bridge, NJ
 ·Cablevision
| I believe he was referring to the general trend of religious people to vote for any politician claiming to write laws banning what they see as "Morally Bankrupt" activities.
These LAWS affect all people in the state/county/country and should not be put into place because some group of people were threatened with an eternity in a dimension of fire if they did not subscribe to a certain belief system think that these activities are "Morally Bankupt"
The stock defense is always that religious people are simply excercising their "free choice" which conveniently always dodges the original problem of the religious groups trying to revoke another persons free choice through legislation. (Think of the children laws) | |
Skippy25
join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO
| Let's narrow this a little bit more by saying legalistic religious people want to ban activities they don't agree with.
Depending on how you want to define religious, I could fall into that stereo type. However, I am a true believer that you can't force anyone to be morally right. You can simply teach them the difference between right and wrong and what integrity is and then hope when they stand face to face with the decision they make the right one. No matter what "religion's" version of the Bible you look at, that is the lesson it will teach.
Just like in real life, even on the Internet if someone wants it, they will find a way to get it and there is no way you can stop them. | |
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