[Discuss] Dictator abusing power

[Peter Weisberg]

On 9/25/06, Tom Vogt <tom at lemuria.org> wrote:

> Has anyone in this discussion _read_ the inalienable rights? I mean,
> carefully?
>
> They do NOT say "you can not ban for..."
>
> They are that you can not force people to do certain things. I don't
> care what methods you employ, whether you try to convince, threaten or
> ban. It's all the same to me, it's pressure. Finding more creative ways
> of excerting pressure doesn't change the fact that you're trying to
> force people to do something that is protected by the inalienable rights.

Tom, you've said specifically that people do *not* have the
inalienable right to choose their religion.  But they need to be able
to choose a religion in order to become priests.  I'm not trying to be
weaselly, I'm honestly confused about how these two fit together.
Here's how I would interpret it right now:

1) You can't enforce atheism, because atheism subverts the inalienable
right to become a priest.  If you're going to be a religious bigot,
you need to pick a religion.
2) You can't say "You can't be a priest," but you can say "If you're
going to be a priest, you must be a priest of *this* religion."

Have I got it right?  What about if a priest of the "wrong" religion
joins your realm?  Can you order him to switch religions?  Even if
this requires him to leave the priesthood for a time?


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