Atheist Memes

There are plenty of prohibitions I'm happy enough to live with.

Had scripture contained a verse in which the Archangel Gabriel alighted upon a banister and declared "Hark! Thy vehicles hath moveth'd too fastly through school zones! Narry shall thou exceed 20mph lest the heavens frown and the Lord look down upon his high chair and be displeased. Let the men of the highway patrol assess thee prohibitionary fines to deter speeding and incarceration of those that do both speed and strike a child!", compelling legions of traffic cops and their fellow travelers to enforce the rule within 200ft of any school zone, I would not begrude it.

But so much of modern religious theory is so incredibly dated. Its perfectly okay to eat shellfish now. You don't need to butcher a cow exactly right or get all sorts of nasty diseases. We abolished chattel slavery, so you don't need special rubrics for how to sell off your children or assign out your spouses.

The religiousity of the rules bothers me far less than the anti-democratic nature of decision making.