George Takei 
š³ļøāššš½It's now legal in Florida to deny someone medical care or insurance coverage because you don't approve of their sexual or gender identity.
DeSantis is weaponizing religious beliefs into state sanctioned discrimination.
Shawn@georgetakei And so the only people who would take advantage of this new freedom to discriminate are the āgoodā religious people, since atheism has no moral objection to it. This begs the question: what exactly makes a religious person āgood?ā And what good does their morality actually accomplish that an atheistās wouldnāt?
In my perspective, it appears confessing a religious adherence paints you as a bad person unless you reject a lot of your own beliefs. -
@georgetakei - It would seem that the best religious person is one who is an āatheistā who just claims to believe in a deity, but puts no credence in the dogma or teachings. They can then view their fellow humans as people, give them the freedom to live their own lives, and then exercise their own religious customs without interfering with anyone elseās life.
But if they say āIām a Christian,ā they are admitting to at least some immoral practices and beliefs.
But if they say āIām a Christian,ā they are admitting to at least some immoral practices and beliefs.
@georgetakei I suppose thatās why the founders were deists, since I think thatās what I just described.
Still racist human traffickers who committed atrocities against people in their own time and who should be taken with that in mind, but perhaps their deist approach to religion was a good one.