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RE: Militant atheism: Why it exists, and why we need it.
March 31, 2012 at 7:09 am
(March 31, 2012 at 4:00 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: Adapting what MC Hammer once said...
Can't stop this!
Then he stopped it, and became a christian minister.
Just pointing out the irony there.
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RE: Militant atheism: Why it exists, and why we need it.
March 31, 2012 at 7:29 am
Wasn't it Madelyn O'hair that said something along the lines of "Atheists have been tortured, persecuted and murdered by religion for two thousand years.
And now christians claim they're being oppressed when we question their silly beliefs."
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RE: Militant atheism: Why it exists, and why we need it.
March 31, 2012 at 7:34 am
You can get a job as a pedestrian!
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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RE: Militant atheism: Why it exists, and why we need it.
March 31, 2012 at 8:36 am
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I feel sorry for the religious... 
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Militant atheism: Why it exists, and why we need it.
March 31, 2012 at 9:31 am
(March 31, 2012 at 3:25 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: People think Gandhi won because he was peaceful?
And we know how that ended for him.
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RE: Militant atheism: Why it exists, and why we need it.
March 31, 2012 at 11:05 am
This idea, on a big scale, is fine. But if you're personally talking to a religious person, I honestly don't think louder is better.
A natural response when you wish to influence somebody is to become aggressive and insult them and their beliefs. However, I promise you it doesn't work.
Read Robert Cialdini's "Influence". Read Dale Carnegie's "How to win friends and influence people".
All through those books, they say that if you want anybody to change, you have to get them to want to change. Rather than attack them, we have to persuade them.
Most of all, if we insult them, they'll cling onto religion harder, so they don't turn into "monsters like us".
If we want to deconvert religious people, we cannot go about it in such a harsh way.
I deconverted from Christianity and it was the gentle, nice atheists who persuaded me. The loudmouth militant atheists just made me cringe and turn my back.
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RE: Militant atheism: Why it exists, and why we need it.
March 31, 2012 at 11:48 am
Thing is that atheists have no interest in changing anyone, least of all having power over anyone. That my friend is the reserve of theists who seem to think that louder is better, that hatred is good and that shouting will turn atheists into monsters like them.
Really, atheists are only interested in the ability to think freely and not be persecuted, shot, drawn, tortured, abused, shouted at and have their children free to ask awkward questions and actually get answers other than "godidit".
The BEST de-conversion for theists?? That they actually READ their precious book/s..The words are enough to de-convert anyone!! 
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RE: Militant atheism: Why it exists, and why we need it.
April 1, 2012 at 7:06 am
(March 31, 2012 at 6:27 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: (March 31, 2012 at 6:19 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: You are aware that the most effective battle plan is the guerilla warfare and de-centrilised tactics of "terrorrists"
Yep...NO Fucking religious nutjob is safe... 
Instead of suicide bombings, I suggest we use suicide reasonings.
We drive our cars into their houses and hurl Chris Hitchens books into their homes. 
We could burst into their churches with a dozen copies of The God Delusion strapped to our bodies
Yelling "Hitchens Akbar!!!" (Hitchens is Great)
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Militant atheism: Why it exists, and why we need it.
April 1, 2012 at 7:12 am
(March 31, 2012 at 11:48 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Thing is that atheists have no interest in changing anyone.
I am and have. Though this is never achieved through belligerence.
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