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Not possible. Only possible if on the local level people are still allowed to exercise their beliefs.
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It's not possible to be humble, not judge, and see to your own inner tranquility? Okay, so do you think you get into Heaven for faking it and banning alchohol sales on Sunday (
LOL)? I remember there was a time in history where Christians were expected to actually work for it (and usually not get in anyway).
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In a local town wants to ban alcohol sales on Sunday then that should be their right. If a few atheists in that town object as MB would say when it comes to local vs local issues you can always move.
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First of all, I would note that banning alchohol sales has more to do with their own collective psychological weaknesses than the well-being of the community. A manifestation of their own insecurity and lack of confidence. I would suggest a simpler solution, this being that they simply not buy alchohol on Sunday. Hopefully God will look favorably upon them for their personal abstinence, both from alchohol and from tyranny.
Moreover, they don't, as you claim, "have the right" -- if they think they do, then they misunderstood the rules concerning the governance of this country from the very beginning.
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How is it a pluralistic society when you deny select people a right to place their values into effect in their local community.
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There are dimensions to a community other than public law to express values -- people can have religious-motivated events all they want, just not legally mandated ones.
Anyway, each person's values are embodied in their own actions. However, when their "will to dominate" grows too strong and they decide they need to inflict these on other people who reserve the same right (Radical Islam and the Christian Right fall, in varying degrees, into this category), then they become tyrants (and there is no harm great enough for that type of being).
It is true 'inflicting your values unto others' is an action, and demanding abstinence from that is a restriction on expression of values, but that's the price you pay for enjoying the conveniences of a modern democracy. No community can exist without regulations.