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RE: Where's the line between atheist and oppressor?
June 28, 2014 at 7:17 am
KoG, do you even know what oppression is? Can you define it for me using your own words?
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RE: Where's the line between atheist and oppressor?
June 28, 2014 at 7:34 am
(June 28, 2014 at 7:15 am)Knowledge of God Wrote: (June 27, 2014 at 4:08 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I didn't realize that "atheists" and "oppressors" lay on the same continuum.
I also didn't realize that disagreeing with someone was a form of oppression.
The things you learn, these days!
Astounding, isn't it.
Answer the points put to you or don't respond.
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RE: Where's the line between atheist and oppressor?
June 28, 2014 at 8:04 am
Quote:Where's the line between atheist and oppressor?
The latter can use, even in our days, the belief in gods to somehow feel justified to be so. Atheists can oppress people, never justifying that with a fantasy like religion.
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RE: Where's the line between atheist and oppressor?
June 28, 2014 at 8:09 am
(June 28, 2014 at 7:17 am)Bad Wolf Wrote: KoG, do you even know what oppression is? Can you define it for me using your own words?
I can, but first I want to know why you would want me to. Please stay online.
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RE: Where's the line between atheist and oppressor?
June 28, 2014 at 8:28 am
(June 28, 2014 at 8:09 am)Knowledge of God Wrote: I can, but first I want to know why you would want me to. Please stay online.
Because only christians in the Middle East and places like that are actually oppressed. And even then, it certainly isn't atheists. I don't know where you are living at the moment but in the western world, you have complete freedom of religion.
I want you to define 'oppression' because I don't think you know what the word means and I want to see if I am correct.
Now please define it for me.
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RE: Where's the line between atheist and oppressor?
June 28, 2014 at 8:44 am
(June 28, 2014 at 7:15 am)Knowledge of God Wrote: Astounding, isn't it.
The only thing more amazing is how sensitive people can be even after donning the "armor of God". You'd think they'd be able to take a little back-and-forth, y'know?
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Where's the line between atheist and oppressor?
June 28, 2014 at 1:38 pm
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RE: Where's the line between atheist and oppressor?
June 28, 2014 at 1:54 pm
The religious have been the oppressors and they continue to do so.
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RE: Where's the line between atheist and oppressor?
June 28, 2014 at 2:10 pm
(June 26, 2014 at 7:04 am)Knowledge of God Wrote: Where's the line between rejecting the reality of God and accepting people who do accept said reality.
I've got the impression atheists not only reject the reality of God, they are busy with oppressing those who do believe too.
We all know Jesus said to pray for those who do bad to you.
 
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RE: Where's the line between atheist and oppressor?
June 28, 2014 at 2:16 pm
Strictly speaking everyone is an atheist because no one believes in everyone else's gods. A person might believe in a deity but does he believe in all of these gods that countless millions of other people believe in? http://www.graveyardofthegods.org/deadgo...fgods.html
The French Catholics invented the word atheist to describe the French Protestants because the Protestants rejected the Catholic church. But they both supposedly worshiped the same clan of deities. They took great glee in killing each other because of that.
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