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<blockquote data-quote="Leonard D Neubache" data-source="post: 1158217" data-attributes="member: 11069"><p>It's about minimalising the number of outgroups you have fighting for a separate and ever-growing piece of the national pie. Freedom of religion is a particular problem because it raises the question of how it can be provided if the practices of that religion contravene the laws of the land.</p><p></p><p>What idiot would choose to obey the laws of man over the laws of his God at anything other than gunpoint (and maybe not even <em>then</em>)? Who would choose to uphold the law at the cost of his mortal soul? So why is it any surprise that minority religious groups form huddled fraternities in which they can disobey the laws of the majority with impunity and practice their religion as they see fit?</p><p></p><p>And of course at that point they by definition they are no longer patriots but subversives.</p><p></p><p>Even racial issues can pale by comparison. Native land rights and self determination of aboriginal populations is pretty much where the buck stops in terms of creating different laws for different races. The few wingnuts and fruitloops who demand that blacks and whites should have separate laws governing them are fringe dwellers who nobody takes seriously, in no small part because we inherently recognise how biased and unworkable such a system would be, yet so many of us somehow think that when we skip from racial solidarity to religious loyalties that "one size fits all" is somehow workable.</p><p></p><p>It's not.</p><p></p><p>The inevitable upshot is what we see in the UK, which has the eternal shame to bear of allowing sharia courts to rule on civil matters when muslims seek redress against other muslims. In my opinion there is no societal stain greater than this one in all of Christendom. It is a total and utter surrender of sovereignty, <strong>and yet it is a natural by-product of religious freedom.</strong></p><p></p><p>Multiculturalism doesn't work. Culture is one part nature and one part nurture. We can manage diverse nature or we can manage diverse nurture, but we can't manage both.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leonard D Neubache, post: 1158217, member: 11069"] It's about minimalising the number of outgroups you have fighting for a separate and ever-growing piece of the national pie. Freedom of religion is a particular problem because it raises the question of how it can be provided if the practices of that religion contravene the laws of the land. What idiot would choose to obey the laws of man over the laws of his God at anything other than gunpoint (and maybe not even [i]then[/i])? Who would choose to uphold the law at the cost of his mortal soul? So why is it any surprise that minority religious groups form huddled fraternities in which they can disobey the laws of the majority with impunity and practice their religion as they see fit? And of course at that point they by definition they are no longer patriots but subversives. Even racial issues can pale by comparison. Native land rights and self determination of aboriginal populations is pretty much where the buck stops in terms of creating different laws for different races. The few wingnuts and fruitloops who demand that blacks and whites should have separate laws governing them are fringe dwellers who nobody takes seriously, in no small part because we inherently recognise how biased and unworkable such a system would be, yet so many of us somehow think that when we skip from racial solidarity to religious loyalties that "one size fits all" is somehow workable. It's not. The inevitable upshot is what we see in the UK, which has the eternal shame to bear of allowing sharia courts to rule on civil matters when muslims seek redress against other muslims. In my opinion there is no societal stain greater than this one in all of Christendom. It is a total and utter surrender of sovereignty, [b]and yet it is a natural by-product of religious freedom.[/b] Multiculturalism doesn't work. Culture is one part nature and one part nurture. We can manage diverse nature or we can manage diverse nurture, but we can't manage both. [/QUOTE]
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