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RE: Atheism 2.0
January 24, 2012 at 5:46 pm
(January 24, 2012 at 5:42 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: er...I don't think he was suggesting we follow the stupid rules. I said what he was saying wasn't exactly Atheism 2.0. While I disagree with what he says, I don't find it stupid, but unnecessary.
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
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RE: Atheism 2.0
January 24, 2012 at 5:57 pm
What exactly do you define as Atheism 2.0 then?
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RE: Atheism 2.0
January 24, 2012 at 6:03 pm
(January 24, 2012 at 5:29 pm)5thHorseman Wrote: You think feminists are ridiculous?
Please explain, Summer.
If you don't think feminists are ridiculous, you haven't been around any die-hard feminists. There are feminists who assert that all men are evil and need to be shot; there are feminists who think that all the world's problems are directed at them; and there are feminists who complain very loudly when men are sexist, but seem to operate under the delusion that sexism only works one way.
I'm an egalitarian. I'll fight for women's rights, I'll fight for men's rights, I'll fight for gay rights, and I'll fight for straight rights. Everyone is equal, and the sooner people understand that and realize that everyone is getting screwed over, the better.
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RE: Atheism 2.0
January 24, 2012 at 7:47 pm
(January 24, 2012 at 5:57 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: What exactly do you define as Atheism 2.0 then? Ach, this new video is now topping all the google results for it. I don't even know where the sites I was going to link to anymore.
I explained what I meant by it. It's atheism, except "people need religion, and it is good for society". I can't find the links explaining it anymore. I always thought it was some kind of fake movement, but I guess it is coming back again.
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
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RE: Atheism 2.0
January 24, 2012 at 7:55 pm
Again, what I took out of it was not that people need religion, but that people do need certain things that religion is very good at conveying and that certain aspects of religion (which don't need a religious construct to be used) don't have to be discarded just because they're associated with religion.
Shit, they cherry pick their bible, why can't we cherry pick the good things out too?
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RE: Atheism 2.0
January 24, 2012 at 8:00 pm
(January 24, 2012 at 7:55 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Again, what I took out of it was not that people need religion, but that people do need certain things that religion is very good at conveying and that certain aspects of religion (which don't need a religious construct to be used) don't have to be discarded just because they're associated with religion.
Shit, they cherry pick their bible, why can't we cherry pick the good things out too? I ask again, like what?
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
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RE: Atheism 2.0
January 24, 2012 at 8:05 pm
Quote:If you don't think feminists are ridiculous, you haven't been around any die-hard feminists.
I ran across some separatist feminists at university,fucking scary they were too. If you dared laugh at their boiler suit they would deck you. 
Quote:Intercourse (1987) is a radical feminist analysis of sexual intercourse in literature and society, written by Andrea Dworkin. Intercourse is often said to argue that "all heterosexual sex is rape", based on the line from the book that says "violation is a synonym for intercourse."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercourse_(book)
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RE: Atheism 2.0
January 25, 2012 at 8:48 am
haha, reminds me of that old FSTDT post saying "a penis is a weapon!". Yeah baby, I carry a conceiled weapon, and its loaded 
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RE: Atheism 2.0
January 25, 2012 at 10:36 am
I didn't disagree with everything he said, but I was a little uncomfortable with his wording..
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RE: Atheism 2.0
January 25, 2012 at 5:46 pm
Quote:I didn't disagree with everything he said, but I was a little uncomfortable with his wording..
Me too; do not accept his hard atheist position.
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