Episode 334: Faith-Based Bad Behavior

• Scenario 1: Onasi is a very thoughtful person. He is always interested in helping other people like his neighbor. Everyday he takes her newspaper and leaves it at her doorstep a quarter of a mile away. Now, he’s decided to stop doing that after finding out that she has not been to Church in 3 years. Would you say this is a faith based bad behavior?

• Scenario 2: Khodabandelou believes a woman must always keep her hair covered or else she is a sinner doomed to a bad afterlife. Do you think she is entitled to her belief or should she change it?

• Scenario 3: Bong is a politician who believes the only way to live correctly is to follow the tenets of an ancient book believed to be approved by a superior deity. He helps to push forward laws that allow the government control over a woman’s body and laws that protect religious holidays from being renamed to be more inclusive of other people’s beliefs. Do you think his faith causes harm to other people, since he holds political power?