I’m a filthy fucking socialist.
People using religion to oppress and usurp others, yes.
People just having a personal relationship with whatever they believe in? No.
Often, what one would see as a crime or nuisance while observing “religious practices” is simply another already codified behavior. Also, meditation could be constructed as prayer under the vagueness of these kinds of laws.
Why should I have to answer your question? What makes you so special that I’m required to do indulge in your navel gazing?
If you can’t understand that, start looking at every fascist entity of the past, and realize you’re on the wrong side.
It sounds like a bunch of flimsy bullshit in order to legally oppress practicing religious freedoms.
You should always question why law enforcement gets extra work.
Then that’s not prayer, it’s being a public nuisance, a disturber of the peace. That’s a different crime / tort that I’m sure is already on the books.
The prayer part is irrelevant.
There’s a precedent like this in the US: enhancement laws
They ruin lives, and don’t stop crime.
Then don’t be in that space?
So you feel the same when a bunch of people are meditating? Same action, really.
So someone praying before a meal is an equivalent obscenity?
Praying doesn’t ruin the world. Just like having a party, or a poetry slam, or Shakespeare in the park.
It’s behaviors that cause health or safety issues that are the problem.
Nothing wrong with public prayer, even a large gathering. I’m an atheist, and as long as no one is causing a health or safety issue, fuck it.
The prayer part is irrelevant. They’re being a danger and an asshole.
After 5 weeks: “this place is also a mess, WTF”
Fuck, I would have enjoyed that course.
I’ve never gotten the shits from Taco Bell. Maybe he had a contaminated meal, or had a terrible constitution.
Everything is Tuberculosis