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Exposing the Intellectual Bankruptcy of Atheists Criticizing Religion
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RE: Exposing the Intellectual Bankruptcy of Atheists Criticizing Religion
(November 1, 2015 at 6:16 am)Beccs Wrote: That's ridiculous.

We don't rape and murder.

And we don't exclusively eat Christian babies.

All joking aside, in my decade behind bars in Max Security prisons, I only met one person in there for a serious, violent-type crime, who was an atheist. And he was (the only person) convicted of an alleged gang-rape (at a time when he was on vacation in Nebraska with his wife) because police found a contractor advertising sheet (he was an electrician) in the victim's home, sheets which he had handed out to everyone in the neighborhood, pulled his prints from a weed misdemeanor he once had, and showed his picture to the victim, saying "Is this him?", so she identified him at the trial, and the jury ignored the wife's testimony that they weren't even in the state that day. I met the wife every time I had a visit because she came to see him every single weekend. He was probably the nicest, most intelligent guy I knew the whole time I was down. Having known literally dozens of murderers and rapists, I can say without question that this guy showed none of the personality traits I learned distinguished the actually-dangerous among the population.

One of the things I learned very quickly was that the more overtly religious a prisoner was, especially the ones who carried Bibles around, the more I had cause to fear them. It was almost a direct parallel. I met good people who were religious, of course, but for the truly dangerous ones, there was almost a strong religious fanaticism.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost

I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.

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RE: Exposing the Intellectual Bankruptcy of Atheists Criticizing Religion - by TheRocketSurgeon - November 1, 2015 at 11:41 am

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