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> if your country orders you (or forbids you from doing) something that contradicts with your beliefs - you do it, and sort it out with your deity later. Indep
by Natanael_L 11y ago
> if your country orders you (or forbids you from doing) something that contradicts with your beliefs - you do it, and sort it out with your deity later.
Independently of religion, this is horrible policy. Not every country has rational sane laws, not every goverment wants their populace to be free. If you'd be given the option in Hitler's Germany to join the army or die, would you comply or try to fight?
The rational thing is to figure out if your beliefs are reasonable, then adjust them if necessary, and then to act according to them, law or not. The source of your beliefs aren't half as important as what you do to figure out if they are sane and have a positive impact or not.
- lmm 11y agoYou're being disingenuous. venomsnake's point was that a nation should treat religiously-motivated violations of its laws the same way as any other violations of those laws (and not provide legal exceptions on religious grounds). When an individual should consider it worthwhile to break the laws of their country is an orthogonal concern.
- Natanael_L 11y agoThat's not the angle he described it from. He said what he thought the individual should do. If you think I shouldn't have taken him on his word, you're equally disingenuous.