"Religious exemption" means they can weed out anybody who doesn't have the intellect, the time, or the perseverence to navigate a painfully tedious and fickle bureaucratic process, where total strangers get to judge whether your religious convictions are genuine or not. F**k that. It's not even fair to religious people, it's jus…
"Religious exemption" means they can weed out anybody who doesn't have the intellect, the time, or the perseverence to navigate a painfully tedious and fickle bureaucratic process, where total strangers get to judge whether your religious convictions are genuine or not. F**k that. It's not even fair to religious people, it's just a fig leaf they can use to cover their legal bases.
I'm religious, and I could probably bulldoze my way through that process, but *I* think even atheists and arseholes should have a right to refuse, and nobody should have the power to reject that, based on their personal judgement of whether you're being "genuine" or not. Everything about that process is petty, stupid, and arbitrary, and has no place in law.
For real.
"Religious exemption" means they can weed out anybody who doesn't have the intellect, the time, or the perseverence to navigate a painfully tedious and fickle bureaucratic process, where total strangers get to judge whether your religious convictions are genuine or not. F**k that. It's not even fair to religious people, it's just a fig leaf they can use to cover their legal bases.
I'm religious, and I could probably bulldoze my way through that process, but *I* think even atheists and arseholes should have a right to refuse, and nobody should have the power to reject that, based on their personal judgement of whether you're being "genuine" or not. Everything about that process is petty, stupid, and arbitrary, and has no place in law.
Yarrow you have written a great post. Interlocutors aren't needed to try to know God. And for the atheists and the rest you are right there, too.