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Hey, man, if capital hill was getting covered by a thousand religious statues, all I'm saying is give me Lenin as an ironic counterpoint.

We will retire both those words and replace them with "ungood" or possibly even "doubleplusungood."

Quote from: Shadowlord on December 04, 2016, 03:01:52 am

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

As American people you have a duty to rewrite the past in order to address problems in the current day.

I'm Commander Shepard, and Neo is my favorite Elcor on the Forums.

In case you were serious, that was a quote from 1984.

Quote from: Ispil on December 04, 2016, 02:27:24 am

The moon crashing into the earth tomorrow is also theoretical. Probably has a higher chance, too.

Cool, so you choose to dismiss an idea because it doesn't have popular support. Offer some actual reasons as to why what I have suggested would be a bad thing?

I had a post all typed, and then FOUR NEW POSTS and phone browser crash
alas

I'll try retyping it from memory.

The soviet union tried to eradicate religion within their territory. They failed, despite all of the force they could bring to bear (oppression, purges, exile, etc). Banning religious speech would not prevent religion from continuing to be passed down to children. Banning religion entirely wouldn't either. Banning popular things has never eliminated them. Just look at marijuana.

Even if you could somehow get a religion-restricting amendment into the constitution*, repealing that part of the first amendment in the process, or if you could get together a constitutional convention and control who attended so as to make sure all the delegates were onboard with your agenda, do you really think that Christians would just accept it? They'd resist. Probably with force. As it happens, they tend to be more right-wing, and have more of the guns and ammo. If a civil war broke out as a result, you would also have no guarantee that the military would remain unified or support the new constitution. It has also, thus far, been impossible for an atheist to even get elected to congress, much less the presidency. So if the military did stay unified, they'd be obeying someone you'd be trying to oppress. So gg no re.

* You couldn't, of course. It would never be ratified. Not in this lifetime. Not without first disenfranchising all those religious voters. Are you in favor of that? (Spoiler: They wouldn't accept that either)

You should probably actually read the first amendment, Urist.

I'll bet you anything that he knows that he's addicted and would prefer that the same thing not happen to you but, you know, men aren't supposed to admit mistakes or appear fallible or show emotion so...

A flying V
A murder of crows
A robbery

I don't actually know how to haiku.