A brief mention of religion and violations of human rights

Dear Readers,






I was thinking, when it comes to religious organizations and discrimination, let's say for instance, a Jehovah's Witness employer refuses to pay for the blood transfusion of a non-Jehovah's Witness employee? I don't think that's right. JW's often will refuse to do their jobs if they are required to do something that goes against their chosen religious beliefs and practices. What if a person belongs to a religion that requires it's members to have a blood transfusion? Is it right for a Jehovah's Witness to force a religious non-JW to go against their religious beliefs? Personally, I would say no, not if the JW's can get away with that excuse. If one group can get away with it, then so should everyone else.  I mean, the JW's don't seem to realize a lot of the time that there are other fundamentalist Christian denominations that think the JW's are "false Christians" and are being deceived by Satan and his demons and are doomed to go to hell or will be annihilated by fire during the second attempt by Satan and his demons to try and overthrow  the kingdom of heaven with the help of all of the "evil people" by Jesus after his millennial reign as believed by the Seventh-day Adventists.








I mean, you have that Hobby Lobby organization that not only wants to use healthcare issues as an excuse to discriminate against women who get an abortion, single mothers and LGBT persons. The Hobby Lobby is now using over 800 million of their dollars to try and get public schools to force the staff, faculty and students to read from the Bible and hold to a view that promotes a literal interpretation of the text as well as get politicians to base our secular laws on a literal view of the Bible and want to promote the view to America that the Bible is a "historical and moral instruction manual" that everyone must base their lives on; among their plans is to create a Christian-themed museum.  Again, forcing children to read from the Bible and to promote a specific interpretation of the text has been viewed as unconstitutional.  Just like when it was declared to be illegal for public educational facilities to force children to pray and to tell them what specific prayers that they should be saying.  Isn't it odd that over half of the violations concerning the separation of Church and State are committed by Christians on a yearly basis?






Islamic-ruled countries are an example of how dangerous authoritarian and theocratic nations can be. Let's not let America become a Christian version of the Taliban.


Sincerely,


B.W.