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Originally Posted by Mike Schultz
My point is that a lot of times religion is used as a security blanket to defend ridiculous things. If a teacher at a school taught his students that it was safe to handle venomous snakes, and the school board approved of this, you would immediately agree that the teacher, the school, and the practice were stupid. But since its a religion, we had better respect them no matter what they do?
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Just like you can disapprove of a person's actions without attacking him as a person, you can disapprove of this practice without attacking the religion.
For instance, as a nurse, I disapproved of groups who did not believe in medical care for religious reasons, if their kids got sick and they did not take the kids to a doctor, but it was that specific practice and not the whole religion that I had a problem with.