religion, is and was foremost, always a way to end a conversation, a debate, by declaring the topic holy and decided. Nobody could decide it, not your children,

religion, is and was foremost, always a way to end a conversation, a debate, by declaring the topic holy and decided. Nobody could decide it, not your children, nor the woman or slaves, and especially not apostates or other religions. As such it can not be part of any civil democratic society, which by its very nature demands that all but the most human basic rights be debat- and negotiable. You can not declare something sacrosanct, cut the fabric of society without a reason, and expect perferable treatment by those whose society you trampled over because you threatened civil war. Écrasez l'infâme