NationStates Jolt Archive

we at vanquesh are tired of religious sects dominating the UN. Many religious regions are using NS to recruit for their faith, this cannot be tolerated. The UN must take action, i urge a resolution to be made to ban this practice.
failing that, i appeal for volunteers to help create a UN army to destroy these extreme religious groups. Please wire me about that.

*shuffles through his military toybox*

:? Where DID I put that ignore cannon :?:

Unless you want to call secularism a religion, I see no evidence of religious groups dominating UN policy making. Last time I checked, religious proposals haven't got a snowball's chance in hell of passing.

In Bonilika we don't see a problem with religious groups, but we do monitor all ciztens just incase people are planning attacks against the government.

Whilst we endorse secular philosophies in government, and our leader is himself Agnostic-deist (don't ask), we respect and hold in very high regard the rights of free speech and freedom of religion, and would like to foster a healthy atmosphere of reason and debate between members of different religions and non-religions.

Sorry, this violates the 'don't be a pillock' clause of our national constitution.

Our nation, while strongly opposed to the idea that anyone would impose their faith on anyone else, is highly proud of its rich spiritual heritage and wishes that militant atheists would get over themselves and stop making the rest of us secularists look bad.

We've no love for fundamentalist evangelicals, but declaring war on them will only further their agenda.

nOObs need to realize that you CANNOT ban religion.

Past UN resolutions CANNOT be undone. Banning religion would need an nullification of the following proposals, if not more:
Religious Tolerence
Universal Bill of Rights
Universal Freedom of Choice

nOOb athiests propose this every week. STOP IT.

Freedom of conscience means being free to worship or not, however you think best. Blanket prohibitions do not foster freedom.

let people believe in what u want, if you take away their religion and what not then ur no better then stalin or hitler

Let me see if I got this right.

You are tired of extreme religion-oriented nations (nations who follow a moral code based on a deity or just plain old insane).

You want to get rid of extremists...by making an army...and killing off all extremists...who have different opinions than you...

Is there an emoticon for *hoping creator of the resolution is infertile so as not to contaminate the genepool*?

Oh yea! This'll be some hot extremist-on-extremist action!

How do you define religion? At what point does an extreme love of reality TV become a religion? Is a low level of belief a religion?

-----------------------------------------
"But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality."
Free your mind! (http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/berkman/comanarchism/whatis_toc.html)
I like big butts!

http://img63.photobucket.com/albums/v193/eddy_the_great/steatopygia.jpg

i am basing my nation on what bush wants to do to america (these aren't my true opinions) and i demand that you apologize for speaking against god! religion is good!(as long as it is run by white males) how would i keep my country as bush's dreamland if you kept religion out of government? it isn't like i'm going to disobey the UN :!: or am i?

i just love it when stupid people get flammed.

Well,

...

"We are such stuff as posts are made of."

...

- The Rep of Komokom, RMoS.

Why is this even a debate?! or a proposed resolution? I do not agree with organised religion (it is after all a big buissness these days) but as long as people practice it in a way that does not try to convert others or sell it like some sick comodity then who gives a sh**?! And even if they do, it is rather rude in this nation's opinion to debate religion. You never know who you might offend. Why get into an argument that cannot be agreed upon either way? Religion should be private. Not something to be ashamed of yet not a way to define oneself either. After all, a person is so much more complex than the way that they choose to follow religion. For example, If and when you get married, are you getting married because of your love of god/buddha/ who or whatever? Or because you love another person? This nation would hope the latter. Religion can be important to a relationship but should it prevail the bond between two people? This nation's opinion would be no. that should not be why you get along with someone or get married. Something much deeper should prevail... don't you think?
Officially getting off my soapbox,
The Confederacy of Polish Warriors

we at vanquesh are tired of religious sects dominating the UN.

Ahem,

Who ?
When ?
Where ?

"How can one conceive of a one-party system in a organisation spanning over 37 000 nations?" - TRoK.


Many religious regions are using NS to recruit for their faith, this cannot be tolerated.

See above.

Also I would assume you'd need to be quite simple to be sway'd by the arguments of a web based game. Then again, some people did suicide because of the old "dungeons and dragons", so I suppose ...

The UN must take action, i urge a resolution to be made to ban this practice.

How ? Take action how ?

What ? What practice do you speak of ?

You seem to be jumping up and down, pointing at and empty patch of grass, rather then a spitting cobra.

failing that, i appeal for volunteers to help create a UN army to destroy these extreme religious groups. Please wire me about that.

1) Last I checked the U.N. does not make armies to go about stomping people.

2) A jihad by any other name ...

- The Rep of Komokom
http://www.nationstates.net/images/flags/uploads/komokom.jpg (http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/24401/page=display_nation)
(It works it works it works !)