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Heroes of Atheism
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RE: Heroes of Atheism
February 11, 2012 at 6:29 pm (This post was last modified: February 11, 2012 at 6:32 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
I have no 'atheist heroes' .

If I did,it would be somebody such as Madalyn Murray O'Hair.


Quote: Madalyn Murray O'Hair (April 13, 1919 – September 29, 1995) was an American atheist activist and founder of the organization American Atheists and its president from 1963 to 1986. One of her sons, Jon Garth Murray, was the president of the organization from 1986 to 1995, while she remained de facto president during these nine years. She is best known for the Murray v. Curlett lawsuit, which led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling ending official Bible-reading in American public schools in 1963. Officially-sponsored prayer in schools had been ended a year earlier by the Supreme Court in Engel v. Vitale. O'Hair later founded American Atheists and became so controversial that in 1964 Life magazine referred to her as "the most hated woman in America."[1][2]

In 1995 she was kidnapped and murdered, along with her son Jon Murray and granddaughter Robin Murray O'Hair, by former American Atheist office manager David Roland Waters.[3]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madalyn_Murray_O'Hair

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Quote: Sad is he without heroes? No,sad is he who needs heroes. ( I forget who said it)

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RE: Heroes of Atheism
February 11, 2012 at 8:13 pm
I suppose it's only fair if atheists also have a few "heroes" of their own.
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RE: Heroes of Atheism
February 11, 2012 at 8:18 pm
(February 11, 2012 at 8:13 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: I suppose it's only fair if atheists also have a few "heroes" of their own.

OK, I'll bite... What are you getting at?

"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."

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RE: Heroes of Atheism
February 11, 2012 at 8:26 pm
(February 11, 2012 at 8:18 pm)AthiestAtheist Wrote:
(February 11, 2012 at 8:13 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: I suppose it's only fair if atheists also have a few "heroes" of their own.

OK, I'll bite... What are you getting at?

Nothing, friend!
Nothing at all.
It's just...the term is somewhat sounding *weird*, when spoken aloud...
"Atheist heroes", "Heroes of Atheism"?
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RE: Heroes of Atheism
February 11, 2012 at 8:32 pm
(February 10, 2012 at 6:10 am)Chuff Wrote: The Robert Green Ingersoll, "God In The Constitution" passage is beautiful.

Quote:When the theologian governed the world, it was covered with huts and hovels for the many, palaces and cathedrals for the few.

The republibertarianeo-conazis are working to restore that as the model for mankind...of course they needed to ally themselves with the purveyors of fucking jesus in order to do it. That was easily accomplished of course.



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