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Re:China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Co... by cjmcqueen on Friday April 06, 2018 @12:28PM (#16774499)
This is bad. I get that religion has taboos, but religion also has an influence on morals. Yes, there are ways to be a good moral person without the Bible, but are we really giving people agency and the ability to choose if they are sensored? Human rights are human rights and as a human I should have the right to obtain a Bible if I so chose and live the consequences there of.
Re:China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Co... by spankalee on Friday April 06, 2018 @12:30PM (#16774528)
It's bad because of censorship, not because of any supposed good influence on morals by religion.
Re:China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Co... by hexo on Friday April 06, 2018 @12:46PM (#16774704)
there's already a ton of censorship deployed worldwide, one of those is ban on literature spreading hate, killing and humiliation of others, and frankly - most parts of bible aren't very different in this. bible "morals" are extremely outdated
Re:China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Co... by gcb0 on Friday April 06, 2018 @12:33PM (#16774551)
I think you mean "there are ways to be a good moral person even with the Bible," ?

remember that every religion teaches intolerance to other beliefs. if not directly by simply suggesting it is the only truth.

Re:China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Co... by DeusExMachina on Friday April 06, 2018 @12:39PM (#16774623)
Apart from the fact that your statement is simply not true, every value "discriminates" towards opposite values.

In every hierarchy, when you define something as better, you automatically define something else as worse. That's how you make any decision in your life. The alternative is inaction.

It has nothing to do with religion. It's an axiom of every value system.

Re:China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Co... by dragonwriter on Friday April 06, 2018 @12:54PM (#16774793)
> remember that every religion teaches intolerance to other beliefs.

Every religion teaches disagreement with other beliefs, not every one teaches intolerance of them.

Re:China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Co... by 09bjb on Friday April 06, 2018 @12:41PM (#16774655)
> every religion teaches intolerance to other beliefs.

Not so. Big difference (and spectrum) between a Buddhist saying "I think my way is better, try it for yourself, or don't!" and a (insert fundamentalist sect here) saying "You deserve to die if you don't think like me." You don't even have to be religious to claim the latter, some political belief systems will also do just fine.

Re:China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Co... by AnimalMuppet on Friday April 06, 2018 @12:40PM (#16774637)
Please don't put words in others' mouths. It's a disgustingly dishonest rhetorical trick, and it doesn't belong on HN.
Re:China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Co... by just_lurkin on Friday April 06, 2018 @12:40PM (#16774634)
atheism is unique in this regard because their intolerance stems from a higher Scientific Truth, so it is ok /s