Not religious myself, but I'd be minded to respect the reasonable wishes of those who are. There's not really much point in putting human samples on the moon (unless I've missed something), so that act itself is quasi-religious.
This request doesn’t seem reasonable to me. And seems like a waste of governance to spend resources evaluating these requests to stop putting human samples on the moon.
Of course, if a group is offended by the activity I like that they earnestly post their letter noting concern and requesting consideration. It will just be bad, I think, if a single letter from a single group that has just seen a thing would stop some valuable activity. Value as judged by the resources put into funding such a mission, somebody thinks it is worthwhile.
And this is not a "group of people", it's a nation. Just as USA is a nation.
And while you're at it, just burn a print of the Quran. After all, that's just some paper and it will bring valuable heat. And the "group of Muslims" will certainly be happy to help.
Come on.
These group of Muslims would also do a lot more if they had unlimited say
I’m imagining you blamed the Charlie hebdo staff for being murdered?
Would you support Scientologists getting South Park banned? It was very insulting to their religion and core beliefs, right?
I respect human beings regardless of their beliefs. Having "right thought" be the basis upon which you dole out respect doesn't sound particularly rational to me.
I'd actually argue that refusing to respect people due to differing beliefs is the root cause of much of the suffering we so often attribute to "a belief in the imaginary."
Only the cheese part; or all the religious interpretations about it (no exceptions).
What now?
There is such a thing as a test of sincere religious belief, and it requires, for one thing, an established religion. There is no established religion that believes in lunar burial. You can't just make some shit up and say "that's my religion." If you could, then everyone would be a part of the church of never paying taxes.
You, emtrw, cannot claim that you belong to a religion of one that you just made up right now, apply for tax exempt status and expect it to work because "religion." That isn't going to fly. And just because your church is exempt from taxes, you are not.
Here is a Reddit thread explaining this further[1].
And to put this into context relative to the thread, you cannot claim that your religion says burial on the moon is your highest honor and expect it to be taken seriously, when no one is taking the religion older than Christianity seriously, and it's obvious your religion doesn't really exist. The real legal world doesn't operate under video game logic where you just need a cheat code to hack the system.
[0]https://www.fidelislawfirm.com/how-and-why-religious-organiz...
[1]https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/184get7/...