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wHY dO wE tOLERATE uGLINESS?
January 22, 2016 at 12:05 pm
I thought I knew, but some of these posts make me forget. Why do we tolerate posters who have nothing to say but something ugly about atheism?
I couldn't go to a Christian form and say "all christians are closet psychopaths."
Will someone remind me what this is for?
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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RE: wHY dO wE tOLERATE uGLINESS?
January 22, 2016 at 12:13 pm
Because we're better than them? Reliion has a long history of censoring things they don't like to hear. often by killing dissidents. We're better than that. We just crush their arguments, instead of banning them. though sometimes people do get banned, liek when they make a new thread and never discuss the topic they started.
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RE: wHY dO wE tOLERATE uGLINESS?
January 22, 2016 at 12:14 pm
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Because we don't like censorship.
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RE: wHY dO wE tOLERATE uGLINESS?
January 22, 2016 at 12:24 pm
Besides, if they didn't come here spouting nonsense how could we shit all over them and their fucking gods and holy books?
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RE: wHY dO wE tOLERATE uGLINESS?
January 22, 2016 at 12:30 pm
(January 22, 2016 at 12:24 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Besides, if they didn't come here spouting nonsense how could we shit all over them and their fucking gods and holy books?
Oh, I don't need this site for that, it isn't a Friday night without coiling one down over a Christian or two.
You may refer to me as "Oh High One."
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RE: wHY dO wE tOLERATE uGLINESS?
January 22, 2016 at 1:01 pm
(January 22, 2016 at 12:05 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: I thought I knew, but some of these posts make me forget. Why do we tolerate posters who have nothing to say but something ugly about atheism?
I couldn't go to a Christian form and say "all christians are closet psychopaths."
Will someone remind me what this is for?
Purging dissent is a sign of weakness.
Leave the silencing of different opinions to the theists.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: wHY dO wE tOLERATE uGLINESS?
January 22, 2016 at 1:20 pm
Dealing with it for new atheists is a learning experience. It's instructive. For everything that's old to you, it's new to someone else.
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