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In reply to the discussion: Kick if you agree with this assessment about the influence of religion on people. [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)I fight against the Roman Catholic Church all the damn time over social policy. Catholics exert political influence in ways that I HAVE to fight, on abortion, contraceptive availability, euthanasia, marriage, gender equality, etc.
Jehovah's Witness's have a prohibition on blood transfusions. Not once in my life have I had to fight with/argue about that. Why? Because Jehovah's Witness's only proscribe it for themselves. There is no lobbying effort in this country, by Jehovah's Witness's to prohibit blood transfusions and require bloodless surgery for ALL citizens.
I tend to think that belief they hold is stupid, and self-defeating, but I am not motivated to campaign against it directly, because it only has potential to harm themselves, electively.
I have no fight with people who keep their faith dogma to themselves, whatever my opinion of that faith might be.