Re: Should religion speak on gambling for the whole country?

Quote from: peter0425 on Today at 02:14:53 AM

If you do not know, Philippines is heavily Catholic. 85 million individuals are Catholics in The Philippines and that makes up 78.8% of the country. A lot of the laws and beliefs in the country are influenced by the Catholic church. Even matters like divorce and LGBT rights are decided with the influence of the religion.

Now that gambling is booming in the country, it is expected that the Catholic church will intervene. The Philippine Church has described this as "a deepening crisis in the country" and is sounding the alarm about a social and cultural scourge that is destroying the lives of young people and entire families.

Obviously, we should respect the religion and the beliefs upheld but what about those who are not Catholic and would wish to continue to gamble? Does religion have the right to be included in conversations regarding gambling if their beliefs cloud their judgement?

It's not just about gambling, is it? Question is if religion should speak for any activity for the whole country.

As an atheist, i wouldn't want to live under laws that are designed for one specific religion, no matter what that religion is. And it would be really easy to argue how someone's random religion shouldn't harm me, but in the end it all comes to values and what kind of values that region wants to share.

If majority of them don't need other reasoning then how they feel about something, then laws don't always make sense. Because it's hard to argue what laws should or should not do in any logical sense, when those laws have been based on something that denies logical reasoning and scientific method. Yet they are adopted by majority.