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RE: Need a hand
January 1, 2011 at 9:30 am
(December 31, 2010 at 5:06 pm)Reese Wrote: I read Hitchen's "God is Not Great" and I couldn't keep reading. Yeah yeah, we know why religion is BAD, but why is the lack of religion good? The guy is a moronic alcoholic, and appears to always will be.

Surely the lack of anything bad can be seen as a good thing :S

(December 31, 2010 at 5:06 pm)Reese Wrote: This is why atheists don't have charities. They are too much on the defensive to form an ideology that they can bring to someone and say "Here, this is what we're about." That is the only real way to carry a message.

That's because atheism in not a religion, nor is it an ideology. It is simply the lack of a particular belief. There may be no atheist charities but there are plenty of charities run by atheists!
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Need a hand - by Xyster - December 20, 2010 at 11:53 am
RE: Need a hand - by Reese - December 31, 2010 at 5:06 pm
RE: Need a hand - by Shell B - December 31, 2010 at 10:07 pm
RE: Need a hand - by downbeatplumb - January 1, 2011 at 9:26 am
RE: Need a hand - by Darwinian - January 1, 2011 at 9:30 am
RE: Need a hand - by Reese - January 1, 2011 at 3:08 am
RE: Need a hand - by Edwardo Piet - January 1, 2011 at 9:35 am
RE: Need a hand - by Shell B - January 1, 2011 at 3:30 pm
RE: Need a hand - by Skipper - January 1, 2011 at 5:38 pm
RE: Need a hand - by Darwinian - January 1, 2011 at 3:32 pm
RE: Need a hand - by Shell B - January 1, 2011 at 3:34 pm
RE: Need a hand - by Anomalocaris - January 1, 2011 at 5:46 pm
RE: Need a hand - by padraic - January 1, 2011 at 7:56 pm
RE: Need a hand - by Ashendant - January 1, 2011 at 8:55 pm
RE: Need a hand - by padraic - January 2, 2011 at 1:13 am

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