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RE: Non-discrimination for atheists
February 19, 2019 at 3:11 pm
Is there any malady that god hasn't struck drich down with..I'm starting to wonder.
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RE: Non-discrimination for atheists
February 20, 2019 at 2:55 pm
(February 19, 2019 at 3:11 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Is there any malady that god hasn't struck drich down with..I'm starting to wonder.
He is like that guy in Drich's favourite storybook, that I am drawing a blank on the name (was it Job? I know Lot was the righteous man on earth, offering his daughters to a mob of rapists to save angels, just to have sex with them after his wife was turned into a pillar of salt).
He spares no expense to make stupid points like "I was atheist once", "I got AIDS once", "I had a learning disability" , just so he keeps his preaching going.
Given what I know of him, he makes more of a spectacular case for atheism than any atheist ever could. The silence from the other christians is deafening. 
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RE: Non-discrimination for atheists
February 20, 2019 at 4:12 pm
(February 19, 2019 at 3:11 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Is there any malady that god hasn't struck drich down with..I'm starting to wonder.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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RE: Non-discrimination for atheists
February 20, 2019 at 6:23 pm
(February 18, 2019 at 1:02 pm)Drich Wrote:
(February 15, 2019 at 5:41 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The 'overwhelming no' had nothing to do with your religious belief. If an atheist posted here asking for help in making a video pushing the case that radioactive decay is a myth, s/he would have been turned down with the same amount of ridicule that you met with.
Boru
retard Your's was one of the 2 idealism rejections I got on page 1!!! Meaning you are 1 of only 2 people who refused to help because of content that did not align with what you believe.
Here was the rejection you got from me:
Quote:You'll understand, of course, why I'm going to decline your very kind offer to help you disseminate anti-scientific lunacy.
This has nothing to do with your religious belief. It has everything to do with creationism being anti-science.
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RE: Non-discrimination for atheists
February 21, 2019 at 7:40 pm
(February 18, 2019 at 1:02 pm)Drich Wrote: (February 15, 2019 at 5:35 pm)Dr H Wrote: As can be seen from past treatment of blacks, Hispanics, Jews, women, gays, and others, when protections for civil rights are not made explicit in law, they are frequently ignored for perceived minorities.
Portland, Oregon represents a small beginning, but any push for equal rights has to start somewhere. Might as well be here.
 None of these things are an issue.. In fact, I just gave you multiple citations to where they indeed were issues.
Quote:lest you forget I was an atheist and I never once out side of my mom wanting to pray for me was EVER an issue..
You were never an atheist.
You may have pretended to be one for a while.
Quote:You whole post is just another example of the post millennial pussifying of america. why don't you do all of us a favor pack this baggage back up and wait for a president and or supreme court willing to give you rights you already have.. Meaning give you what you really want the freedom to persecute others who do not think as you do.
How little you know about me, and about discrimination.
You could learn, I suppose.
But first you have to acknowledge your ignorance, and actually want to learn something. 
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RE: Non-discrimination for atheists
February 25, 2019 at 9:16 am
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2019 at 9:18 am by viocjit.)
Thanks to @ downbeatplumb who make me discover institutional discrimination perpetrated by some states in USA.
I didn't thought it was yet written in the law codes of some states even if it's unenforceable because of this supreme court case named "Torcaso v. Watkins".
The full name of this 1961 case is "Torcaso v. Watkins, Clerk" and can be found at the page 488 of the volume n°367 of "United States Reports" or referred as 367 U.S 488 for laws experts.
Even if it's not enforceable I saw that like symbolic discrimination.
Article about this case on Wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torcaso_v._Watkins
Article on Wikipedia about United States Reports : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Reports
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RE: Non-discrimination for atheists
February 25, 2019 at 9:47 am
@ Dr H "No True Atheist" hunh, that's original. Don't forget your kilt.
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RE: Non-discrimination for atheists
February 25, 2019 at 11:50 am
(February 25, 2019 at 9:47 am)tackattack Wrote: @Dr H "No True Atheist" hunh, that's original. Don't forget your kilt.
Yeah, I love that no true atheist bit. It sounds an awful lot like something that I would have said in my rabidly anti-religious days. I would have sworn that there was no way that I could ever become religious, and then it happened. I have no idea of how it happened, really. But it did. I went through a fervently religious decade, and then settled back into a kind of skeptical luke warm belief. I don't regret it. It was an interesting ride. As a mildly skeptical person, I now see being rabidly anti-religious as a neurosis. It's a small percentage of society that is irrationally obsessed with the beliefs of other people, screaming irrationally about how rational they are.
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RE: Non-discrimination for atheists
February 25, 2019 at 12:13 pm
I know three people personally who were fired within a week for their boss finding out they were an atheist. Apparently South Carolina doesn't have the critical percentage of 'Nones' it takes to trigger equal protection for nonbelievers. If I didn't work for a large corporation, it could have happened to me...all I got was the worst survey of my life after it came out that I was an atheist at work, on the personal behavior stuff. Suddenly my staff rated me as 'unapproachable' and 'difficult to work with'. A year later it had blown over and my next survey was back to normal. One of my staff later shared with me the buzz going on about me being an atheist at the time they were doing the survey, and was willing to state the same to HR, which is the only reason I avoided disciplinary action for failing the survey.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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RE: Non-discrimination for atheists
February 25, 2019 at 1:10 pm
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I'm not claiming discrimination doesn't happen, I'm certain it does. Even my Christian privilege though screams illogical fallacy when I see it though.
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