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RE: Does Atheism make sense?
January 15, 2012 at 10:31 pm
The old "The world would cease to exist without the bible" probably works often amongst the sheep. Not the Harold kind of sheep, mind you: The kind that tend to work best as fleeced critters and sources of mutton.
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RE: Does Atheism make sense?
January 16, 2012 at 1:29 am
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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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RE: Does Atheism make sense?
January 16, 2012 at 3:44 am
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Do I have to go there? ok....Does Christianity make any sense? lol
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RE: Does Atheism make sense?
January 16, 2012 at 4:10 am
Flakey: "So, answer me just this one question before we continue, Do you truly believe that Christianity has no influence on modern society?"
Regrettably it has way too much influence. It would be fine if you zombies for christ just wanted to live the life the bible tells you to so that you can get your ticket to heaven stamped. But no, you want to make the political and justice system impose that crap on the rest of us too.
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RE: Does Atheism make sense?
January 17, 2012 at 9:32 am
Add to that the fact that they each seem to live in a bubble of sectarian solipsism, and you have a recipe for annoying.
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RE: Does Atheism make sense?
January 17, 2012 at 9:34 am
Annoying? Infuriating. I lose weight just going on rants about these fuckers.