Shouldn't We Demand That Religion-Based Policies Prove They Have Objective Fact Behind Them?

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7. I'm saying that all policies should have such a test.

If Republican economic policies were put to the test they'd never be enacted because the proof is there that they don't work.

BTW - I will continue to call religious beliefs make believe because that's what they are by any objective definition. Believers are free to believe what they will, but if they get insulted when I call their beliefs make believe, tough shit. They do the same when it comes to gods with names like Odin and Anubis, so they have no room to talk or to feel insulted.

And why should religious beliefs get some kind of carve out that, say, political beliefs don't? If a Republic tells me he thinks that Democratic policies are stupid, I don't feel personally insulted. I say he's entitled to his opinion, even if try to show him that he is factually wrong. The marketplace of ideas does not demand that all ideas be treated as if they have equal validity. To so so is to engage in a useless exercise in describing the Emperor's new clothes.