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new here :)
January 10, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Hello everyone, I'm SaVanna. :) I've been an atheist for about two months and I'm kind of starved for some like-minded companionship haha. I was born and raised Southern Baptist. I'm a college student right now, studying nutrition/dietetics. Can't wait to get to know some of you guys! :]
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RE: new here :)
January 10, 2011 at 6:13 pm
About 2 months?
Got a de-conversion story? Those are always quite entertaining.
Welcome. This can be a fun place most of the time.
I used to tell a lot of religious jokes. Not any more, I'm a registered sects offender.
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January 10, 2011 at 6:22 pm
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2011 at 6:23 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
Hello and welcome.
I hope you feel at home here.
... as much as you can on an internet forum, anyway.
I promise we won't sacrifice you to the volcano god.
... maybe.
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
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January 10, 2011 at 7:52 pm
You poor thing. Southern Baptist is about as loony as it can get. Welcome to the real world. I look forward to hearing more of your story.
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January 10, 2011 at 8:42 pm
Welcome to our ragtag fleet, our motley crew, the herd of cats, the dance of servitude to rationality.
There be monsters here, but we're furry and more like Falcor than Smaug.
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January 11, 2011 at 5:17 am
Welcome to the forums, enjoy your respite.
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