RE: What can atheists do / not do?
January 3, 2011 at 6:07 pm
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2011 at 6:08 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(January 3, 2011 at 5:23 pm)barboft Wrote: Do you atheists have any rules about what you can or can't do?
There are no purely 'atheist' rules.
There are no atheist rituals to observe, no atheist codes to follow, no rites of atheist passage, no atheist-specific ceremonies, nothing of that sort.
(January 3, 2011 at 5:43 pm)barboft Wrote: So you're allowed to do pretty much anything you like. Doesn't that lead to chaos?
That doesn't mean that atheists don't create or follow the rule of law. It doesn't mean that we don't value human life. If anything, I can offer positive evidence that the opposite is true.
Case and point: Every bad thing publicly said about gays, homosexuals, atheists, liberals, liberal elites, muslims, terrorists, people outside of United States juristiction (especially in communist states, like North Korea), Nazis, Abortion doctors, and so on is usually done by people of a particular religious faith (or republicans or both).
I'm looking at YOU, Pat Robertson, Ben Stein, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reily, and ... pretty much everyone worth mentioning at Fox News.
(January 3, 2011 at 5:56 pm)barboft Wrote: So you're letting yourselves be ruled purely by your own whims. Prisons are full of people who live that way.
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Atheists do not work that way!
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
