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happyTopic: Truth and Logic Initiative
Proposition for the California State Ballot
Name: Truth and Logic Initiative
Purpose: To enable the citizens of the great state of California to demonstrate their loyalty to the truth and to promote logical behavior by passing a ballot initiative whose sole purpose is to punish the promotion of illogical behavior and loyalty to mendacity demonstrated by the religious wrong.
If passed, then the Truth and Logic Initiative would do all of the following:
1. Make religious organizations that are run by leaders who routinely repeat the lie that myth is truth pay taxes to the state government just like any other entertainment industry business.
2. Make religious organizations that are run by leaders who routinely repeat the lie that myth is truth pay a special vice tax to the state government specifically intended to punish these leaders and the religious organizations they represent for their public displays of mendacity.
3. Require religious leaders who routinely repeat the lie that myth is truth to periodically make a public disclaimer to the effect that the education and leadership provided is for entertainment purposes only. (Just like telephone psychics are required to do.)
Rational: The truth is a set of ideas about the existence of one totality that can be verified to be true by use of our senses and perceptions. A myth is an idea or a story about the existence of one totality that can not be verified to be true or false by use of our senses and perceptions. The truth is that myth is myth. Those who claim that myth is truth make themselves into liars.
Freedom of religion should not be a license to repeat the lie that myth is truth in defense of fraud, threat making, character defamation, extortion, intolerance, violence and terrorism.
Just as the government is not permitted to rule on the truth or falsity of myth propagated by religious leaders so should religious leaders not be permitted to claim that myth is truth!
Lying is anti-social behavior.
The state should be in the business of using the tax code and other available means to punish liars and reward honest hard working citizens.
