More than ever, citizens need honesty, integrity and accountability from organizations within their communities. Why Churches Should No Longer Be Tax Exempt 1. In a true democracy, children would receive a liberal education in the wide variety of religious doctrines available. Then, when they reach the age of consent, these young adults would be able to make an informed choice whether to accept the ideology of any religion in particular. Currently, children are indoctrinated like Hitler Youth, with no opportunity to question the validity of the tenets they are required to embrace.
Religions tend to promote hatred against minorities.
The most common example is the persecution of homosexuals on religious grounds. Scientists have now uncovered the genetic link to homosexuality. People are born with a specific eye color. Likewise, people are born with a specific sexual orientation. It is cruel to continue perpetrate hatred against a fragment of the population who have no control over the desires they were born with.