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RE: Great idea.... "National Day of Reason".......
April 15, 2016 at 11:26 pm
(April 15, 2016 at 7:03 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Given the spate of US 'religious freedom' laws referenced on the boards of late, I suspect that anyone celebrating a 'National Day Of Reason' is likely to be set on fire by someone who isn't.

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April 15, 2016 at 11:30 pm
A day of reason sounds great...but what would we do with Dripshit for that day?
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RE: Great idea.... "National Day of Reason".......
April 16, 2016 at 6:28 am
(April 15, 2016 at 8:08 pm)maestroanth Wrote:
(April 15, 2016 at 8:04 pm)maestroanth Wrote: I love this idea. Except I don't like the precondition of having it on the same day as the "national day of prayer".  It needs to be completely not motivated by religion on what day it's on. But motivated by a day where a great scientific breakthrough was made or a momentous milestone was made culturally through reason.  I prefer the latter, but I cannot think of such a day than something stupid like Richard Dawkins day or something since he's the only one that pushed atheist culture.  

Or a good date for the national day of reason can be is when Darwin got the origin of species published or something......since that did indirectly influence much culture in the years to follow......

Ooo...I got it! The day should be on John Scopes birthday!  Anyone familiar with Scopes monkey trials? That was very cultural.  The guy had balls to stand up to all those religious nuts and judges and all that to defend the teaching of evolution in public school.

Actually, it was the Civil Liberties Union with the balls to do so. Scopes agreed to deliberately violate the law and to be used as a test case. Scopes never even went to jail. The whole thing was staged from start to finish.

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April 16, 2016 at 10:01 am
(April 15, 2016 at 9:52 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I too think it's a great idea. If people truly applied reason to experience they would believe in God.

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RE: Great idea.... "National Day of Reason".......
April 19, 2016 at 1:57 pm
(April 15, 2016 at 9:52 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I too think it's a great idea. If people truly applied reason to experience they would believe in God.

Hahaha
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April 19, 2016 at 2:00 pm
(April 16, 2016 at 6:28 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(April 15, 2016 at 8:08 pm)maestroanth Wrote: Ooo...I got it! The day should be on John Scopes birthday!  Anyone familiar with Scopes monkey trials? That was very cultural.  The guy had balls to stand up to all those religious nuts and judges and all that to defend the teaching of evolution in public school.

Actually, it was the Civil Liberties Union with the balls to do so. Scopes agreed to deliberately violate the law and to be used as a test case. Scopes never even went to jail. The whole thing was staged from start to finish.

Boru

That's actually pretty cool. Unfortunately, this does sway me not to hold national reason day on Scopes birthday anymore.

Hmmmm......is Dec 25 taken?
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April 21, 2016 at 6:56 pm
(April 19, 2016 at 1:57 pm)maestroanth Wrote:
(April 15, 2016 at 9:52 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I too think it's a great idea. If people truly applied reason to experience they would believe in God.

Hahaha

Reasoning is a just means by which to gain knowledge, not knowledge itself. It is not reason itself that you propose celebrating but rather a specific conclusion, atheism, that you think it supports.
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April 21, 2016 at 8:24 pm
(April 15, 2016 at 11:30 pm)Minimalist Wrote: A day of reason sounds great...but what would we do with Dripshit for that day?

We'll since we don't have the same authoritarian god he does, I suppose we'll have to let him live, I suck at being an atheist.
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April 21, 2016 at 8:30 pm
If people truly applied reason to experience they would believe in Odin AllFather

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