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Nigeria atheist sent to a mental institute
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Nigeria atheist sent to a mental institute
June 25, 2014 at 9:07 am
BBC News Wrote:A Nigerian man has been sent to a mental institute in Kano state after he declared that he did not believe in God, according to a humanist charity.

Mubarak Bala, 29, is said to have been forcibly medicated by his Muslim relatives, despite being given a clean bill of health by a doctor.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28010234
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RE: Nigeria atheist sent to a mental institute
June 25, 2014 at 9:28 am
(June 25, 2014 at 9:07 am)Insanity Wrote:
BBC News Wrote:A Nigerian man has been sent to a mental institute in Kano state after he declared that he did not believe in God, according to a humanist charity.

Mubarak Bala, 29, is said to have been forcibly medicated by his Muslim relatives, despite being given a clean bill of health by a doctor.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28010234

No atheists spin. He is totally normal, just ask him.
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RE: Nigeria atheist sent to a mental institute
June 25, 2014 at 10:10 am
(June 25, 2014 at 9:28 am)archangle Wrote:
(June 25, 2014 at 9:07 am)Insanity Wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28010234

No atheists spin. He is totally normal, just ask him.

Other than not believing in magical Jewish or Arabian sky wizards, where is the evidence he is not normal?
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RE: Nigeria atheist sent to a mental institute
June 25, 2014 at 12:04 pm
It's Nigeria. The inmates run the asylum.
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RE: Nigeria atheist sent to a mental institute
June 25, 2014 at 12:21 pm
This reminds me of how the Soviet leadership would sometimes commit people who weren't deemed ideologically correct on the grounds that one would have to be insane not to see the good sense of their Leninist/Stalinist bullshit and/or toe the party line. Just another reason I roll my eyes when theists try to tar all atheists with the crimes of the Communist regimes, ignoring the obvious parallels between their -- the theists' -- religions and the state religions of the Communists.

@Archangle: Were you always an asshole, or did that start when you began pretending to be an atheist on an atheist forum?
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RE: Nigeria atheist sent to a mental institute
June 25, 2014 at 2:11 pm
Technically, per his profile, Archangle is an "athiest", whatever that is.

Perhaps athiest is a misspelling of "troll".
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RE: Nigeria atheist sent to a mental institute
June 25, 2014 at 2:14 pm
(June 25, 2014 at 9:28 am)archangle Wrote:
(June 25, 2014 at 9:07 am)Insanity Wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28010234

No atheists spin. He is totally normal, just ask him.

I see, you know the guy? How's he doing?

Tell him he's in our thoughts.

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RE: Nigeria atheist sent to a mental institute
June 25, 2014 at 5:09 pm
Well, Nigeria is safe from 1 atheist, meanwhile, terrorists just blew up a mall and killed 30 innocents . . .
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RE: Nigeria atheist sent to a mental institute
June 25, 2014 at 5:31 pm
(June 25, 2014 at 5:09 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Well, Nigeria is safe from 1 atheist, meanwhile, terrorists just blew up a mall and killed 30 innocents . . .

But ATHEISTS are the ones with mental issues . . .

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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RE: Nigeria atheist sent to a mental institute
June 25, 2014 at 8:53 pm
Mentioned this to a friend and he suggested the mental institute might have saved the guy's life, if the family didn't have him committed the local Islamic franchisee would kill him.

Hobs choice . . . .
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