[Rhodes22-list] definition "religious kook" (as requested)

[Robert Skinner]

Thank you, Pete, for a good, clear definition.
An exercise in "necessary and sufficient".

It will be interesting to see what logical
gymnastics it evokes.

/Robert
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petelargo wrote:
> an individual who is driven by their religious Belief to impose their Belief
> on others in order to "save you" for what they believe is your own good by
> using their civic power and position to support and pass laws requiring your
> compliance with their Beliefs, hence making societal criminals out of people
> should they not share these particular Beliefs. Always combined with an
> inherent feeling of righteous seniority and intolerance of other beliefs,
> based on the belief that their Belief is superior to all other beliefs.
> 
> examples: 1)  supporting and imposing laws that state what you can and
> cannot do with or put in your own body as an adult based on their specific
> religion 2) supporting restrictions and public bans of literature, books,
> movies, and art that may not support their religion 3) attempts to create
> laws that make their religion the 'official state' religion 4) imposing
> their religion as the 'truth' that must be taught in public forums over
> empirical contrary scientific evidence 5) wanting to change the Constitution
> of the United States in order to better reflect their specific religion 6) 
> supporting deconstructing boundaries between church and state in order to
> more effectively implement the above
> 
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