Why Criminalising Something that Conflicts with your Religion is Illogical

A country’s jurisdiction is only applicable within its country. One can’t apply one country’s laws to people within another country. Then surely a religion’s jurisdiction is applicable within its religion? Thus one shouldn’t apply one religion’s laws to people within another belief system.

 

Laws are constraints on actions based on what’s considered right or wrong. Most religious people disagree with a few things their religious teachers preach so it’s clear morality isn’t solely sourced in their religion. Thus religion is necessary for neither morality nor law.

 

The most common example is people banning abortion and gay marriage because their religion says these actions are wrong. Yes, people think their faith is right, but so does everyone else. They wouldn’t be following that faith, otherwise.

 

This isn’t to say religious laws shouldn’t be translated into civil law. Murder, for example, is frowned on in most beliefs, whether religious, atheist or otherwise. It should be illegal because it’s bad, not ‘because God said so’.