Law

I've been concerned for sometime about the increasing amount of pressure and control that religion is having on the societies that I live in. This article serves as a nice cautionary tale of the problems that start once you let religion start to dictate laws. I suspect a lot of the problem that many people have is that MOST religious doctrines are not too unreasonable, they are morally sound (by this I mean simply that most people will generally agree with the basic tenets of most religions from a moral perspective ie take the ten commandments) and generally seem to be comprehensible. For most people that is enough for them to give approval to religious ideology even if they are not really religious themselves. Unfortunately religion is not only about generalities but also a lot of specifics, the devil is in the detail as the saying says.