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hughee99

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16. Are you sure about this?

Reply to stopbush (Reply #8)

Tue May 15, 2012, 03:22 PM

May 2012

Cutting taxes on the wealthy will spur growth? Pot is dangerous? Iraq has WMD's? I'm not sure any of those things were grounded in fact, and yet major policy decisions have been based on these beliefs.

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Shouldn't We Demand That Religion-Based Policies Prove They Have Objective Fact Behind Them? [View all] stopbush May 2012 OP

Smiting in 3... 2... 1.... GoneOffShore May 2012 #1

You lost me the minute you put "religion" and "fact" in the same sentence. Brooklyn Dame May 2012 #2

Religion is totally based on faith HockeyMom May 2012 #3

Each individual voter has the right to pull the lever or support policies for what ever reason that Swamp Lover May 2012 #4

I'm saying that all policies should have such a test. stopbush May 2012 #7

If following one's beliefs insults groups of people SoutherDem May 2012 #12

How do we differentiat between the religious based policies that have no basis in fact hughee99 May 2012 #5

Oh, come on. Economic policies, military policies etc are all grounded in fact to some extant, stopbush May 2012 #8

Are you sure about this? hughee99 May 2012 #16

You are absolutely correct loyalsister May 2012 #15

Or what? This suggestion is completely asinine. badtoworse May 2012 #6

It's an objective fact that lots of the population believes objectively unprovable stuff.. Fumesucker May 2012 #9

If only we lived in a country that actually enforced separation of church and state. Initech May 2012 #10

The problem is they think they are facts. SoutherDem May 2012 #11

Demand proof? That would slow things down. AnotherMcIntosh May 2012 #13

No, and quit saying objectively stupid things gratuitous May 2012 #14