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Why atheism is a belief.
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RE: Why atheism is a belief.
(December 6, 2011 at 11:18 pm)JoopWoop Wrote: Ok got it, you're not very bright.
Ah, you say that as though your criticism matters.

You've talked a great deal about how intelligent you are and yet you present points you yourself won't even bother to defend despite the fact that, as you say, you make such great sport in making us look like idiots.
Well, you've talked a big game and failed to deliver. You've presented your points and when push came to shove, your really best method of arguing your position is to hurl insults.

No one is impressed. In short...

(December 6, 2011 at 11:18 pm)JoopWoop Wrote: Geez usually atheists at least tend to be smarter than the average idiot. WTF happened here?
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the amazing JoopWoop, otherwise known as the man who has nothing to excuse himself from his own idiocy. He can't defend his own points, so he has now stooped to the lowest common denominator. Calling everyone stupid.
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
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Why atheism is a belief. - by JoopWoop - December 6, 2011 at 5:23 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by 5thHorseman - December 6, 2011 at 5:32 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Rayaan - December 6, 2011 at 5:34 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by JoopWoop - December 6, 2011 at 8:24 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Anomalocaris - December 6, 2011 at 5:35 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Ace Otana - December 6, 2011 at 5:38 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Cyberman - December 6, 2011 at 5:54 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Mister Agenda - December 6, 2011 at 6:03 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by TheDarkestOfAngels - December 6, 2011 at 6:07 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by JoopWoop - December 6, 2011 at 10:16 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Jackalope - December 6, 2011 at 6:11 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by TheDarkestOfAngels - December 6, 2011 at 6:14 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Mister Agenda - December 6, 2011 at 6:14 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Erinome - December 6, 2011 at 6:36 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by xntubes - December 6, 2011 at 6:53 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Happy UnBeliever - December 6, 2011 at 7:05 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Jackalope - December 6, 2011 at 7:30 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Minimalist - December 6, 2011 at 8:36 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by JoopWoop - December 6, 2011 at 10:26 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by TheDarkestOfAngels - December 6, 2011 at 10:29 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Norfolk And Chance - December 6, 2011 at 8:44 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by JoopWoop - December 6, 2011 at 10:33 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by AthiestAtheist - December 6, 2011 at 10:42 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by JoopWoop - December 6, 2011 at 10:45 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by AthiestAtheist - December 6, 2011 at 11:03 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by TheDarkestOfAngels - December 6, 2011 at 10:46 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by JoopWoop - December 6, 2011 at 11:18 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by AthiestAtheist - December 6, 2011 at 11:30 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by JoopWoop - December 6, 2011 at 11:38 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by TheDarkestOfAngels - December 7, 2011 at 12:00 am
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by kevinbenko - December 6, 2011 at 9:12 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Minimalist - December 6, 2011 at 9:25 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Norfolk And Chance - December 6, 2011 at 9:34 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Minimalist - December 6, 2011 at 10:23 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by JoopWoop - December 6, 2011 at 10:29 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Cyberman - December 6, 2011 at 10:29 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by AthiestAtheist - December 6, 2011 at 10:31 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Cyberman - December 6, 2011 at 10:50 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Epimethean - December 6, 2011 at 11:40 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by AthiestAtheist - December 6, 2011 at 11:53 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Mister Agenda - December 7, 2011 at 1:22 am
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Ace Otana - December 7, 2011 at 8:35 am
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Heather - December 7, 2011 at 9:38 am
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by JoopWoop - December 7, 2011 at 3:31 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Ace Otana - December 7, 2011 at 3:37 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by JoopWoop - December 7, 2011 at 7:10 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by TheDarkestOfAngels - December 7, 2011 at 7:19 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Ace Otana - December 7, 2011 at 7:20 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by TheDarkestOfAngels - December 7, 2011 at 3:52 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by JoopWoop - December 7, 2011 at 8:22 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by TheDarkestOfAngels - December 7, 2011 at 9:08 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by JoopWoop - December 7, 2011 at 9:13 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by TheDarkestOfAngels - December 7, 2011 at 9:32 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by JoopWoop - December 7, 2011 at 9:53 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by TheDarkestOfAngels - December 7, 2011 at 10:33 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Napoléon - December 7, 2011 at 9:49 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Mister Agenda - December 7, 2011 at 3:56 pm
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RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by AthiestAtheist - December 7, 2011 at 4:39 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Heather - December 7, 2011 at 3:56 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by 5thHorseman - December 7, 2011 at 3:59 pm
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RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Epimethean - December 7, 2011 at 9:49 pm
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RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by JoopWoop - December 7, 2011 at 10:28 pm
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RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by AthiestAtheist - December 7, 2011 at 11:51 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Napoléon - December 8, 2011 at 10:56 am
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Heather - December 8, 2011 at 12:57 pm
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RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Cinjin - December 8, 2011 at 4:14 pm
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RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by JoopWoop - December 7, 2011 at 11:14 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Cinjin - December 8, 2011 at 3:11 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Epimethean - December 7, 2011 at 11:29 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by TheDarkestOfAngels - December 7, 2011 at 11:38 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by JoopWoop - December 7, 2011 at 11:52 pm
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RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Shell B - December 8, 2011 at 11:24 pm
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RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by JoopWoop - December 8, 2011 at 11:22 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by TheDarkestOfAngels - December 8, 2011 at 11:32 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Mister Agenda - December 9, 2011 at 3:02 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Anomalocaris - December 9, 2011 at 3:09 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by JoopWoop - December 8, 2011 at 11:29 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Shell B - December 8, 2011 at 11:30 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Shell B - December 8, 2011 at 11:37 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by TheDarkestOfAngels - December 8, 2011 at 11:52 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Norfolk And Chance - December 10, 2011 at 2:47 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Shell B - December 8, 2011 at 11:56 pm
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RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Napoléon - December 14, 2011 at 8:44 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Norfolk And Chance - December 14, 2011 at 9:11 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by downbeatplumb - December 15, 2011 at 1:30 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by TheDarkestOfAngels - December 16, 2011 at 4:04 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Norfolk And Chance - December 14, 2011 at 6:23 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by goodcake - December 14, 2011 at 9:07 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Mister Agenda - December 15, 2011 at 6:43 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by goodcake - December 17, 2011 at 12:02 am
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Jackalope - December 17, 2011 at 12:07 am
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Galileo - December 12, 2011 at 8:35 am
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RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Shell B - December 15, 2011 at 4:07 pm
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RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Whateverist - December 17, 2011 at 2:43 am
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RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Epimethean - December 17, 2011 at 10:15 am
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Mister Agenda - December 19, 2011 at 6:29 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by TheDarkestOfAngels - December 19, 2011 at 10:52 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Minimalist - December 19, 2011 at 6:36 pm
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by Epimethean - December 20, 2011 at 11:27 am
RE: Why atheism is a belief. - by campenney - January 6, 2012 at 2:43 am
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