This house believes that universities that have historically been set up by religious orders (Jesuits, Franciscans, Dominicans, etc.) should actively distance themselves from their religious affiliations as opposed to integrating their religious philosophy into their education environments
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This house would ban religious proselytization in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation
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This house prefers a world where absurdism is the dominant belief system
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In areas with high poverty and civil disobedience and/or crime, This house believes that states should actively incentivize religious organizations to proselytize
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This house would disallow religious leaders from publicly endorsing, rejecting, or commenting on any political party or candidate and their policies
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This house believes that it is in the interest of social movements in a highly religious states to utilise religious rhetoric in forwarding their cause (e.g. using religious texts, seeking support from religious leaders, etc.)
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This house would establish confessional political systems in post-conflict societies.
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This house prefers a world where all cultures perceive death as an occasion of celebration rather than mourning
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This house believes that that the ongoing process of decolonization should include actively disempowering religions of foreign extractions.
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This house believes that that the ongoing process of decolonization should include actively disempowering religions of foreign extractions.
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This house regrets the Protestant reformation
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This house believes that parents should not teach children about their own conceptions of the afterlife.
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This house would openly reinterpret the sacred texts of this religion to better align its beliefs and teachings with societal norms.
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This House opposes the expectation of prominent Muslims in Western Liberal Democracies (WLDs) to condemn problems in Muslim countries e.g. terrorism, women's rights, LGBT discrimination.
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This house supports the existence of religious courts.
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This house believes that the queer community should actively promote queer theology at the expense of critique to religion.
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When they are not part of that religion, This house believes that feminists should refrain from critiquing widespread religious practices that have different rules based on gender (e.g. wearing of veils, separate prayer spaces, women on their period being forbidden from fasting, Iddah (waiting) period after divorce/death of a husband, etc.)
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This House opposes the stigmatisation of esotericism (e.g. tarot reading, astrology, witchcraft).
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This house prefers a world in which religions do not emphasize self-deprivation (e.g. ritual fasting, asceticism, voluntary poverty)
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This house prefers secular governments that exclude all religion from public spaces to those that allow unlimited religious expression