Originally Posted by
wannabee
Aside from the obvious impossibility of this, the kind of egregious government overreach required to enforce such a thing is immoral on its face. The communists have tried to eliminate organized religion by making it punishable by death, but even then it’s never been totally effective. People believe what they believe, and it’s very hard to change that.
True, I'd never advocate for such a thing but rather prefer to do it via higher standards of living, better education, using science instead of the supernatural to explain the world and of course a strong separation of church & state.