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Threats and Intimidation, Go Religion!
July 2, 2011 at 7:56 pm
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http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/30...esistance/
This pisses me off.
ETA: Okay, I'm adding this to elaborate because most people probably just see the title and didn't read the whole article. It's about trying to show the U.S. that being an atheist doesn't mean you're anti American. An atheist organization rounded up tens of thousands of dollars to fly planes with banners saying that atheists can be patriotic on the 4th of July. They have gotten so much resistance from religious nuts on this that many of the pilots are afraid to fly.
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RE: Threats and Intimidation, Go Religion!
July 2, 2011 at 8:27 pm
It pisses you off now? How about the uncountable number of time in the past?
Get used to it and live with it, my bredda.
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RE: Threats and Intimidation, Go Religion!
July 2, 2011 at 8:43 pm
Think how annoyed the jesus freaks will be.
That should make you happy.
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RE: Threats and Intimidation, Go Religion!
July 2, 2011 at 8:49 pm
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No, I should have elaborated, but I'm drunk. It pisses me off that people are afraid to fly the atheist flags because they're scared of retaliation. This country is so afraid of people that don't believe in God that atheists are afraid to spread their message.
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RE: Threats and Intimidation, Go Religion!
July 2, 2011 at 8:55 pm
Quote:but I'm drunk.
AT least its a good excuse.
The problem is that the devotees of the Loving Jesus have been known to beat the shit out of people to show their god's fucking love.
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RE: Threats and Intimidation, Go Religion!
July 2, 2011 at 9:03 pm
Well, the thing that frustrates me the most is that, as far as first world countries go, we're the only one still dealing with this kind of thing. The level of stupidity and delusion in the U.S. is sickening.
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RE: Threats and Intimidation, Go Religion!
July 2, 2011 at 10:00 pm
I'm not so sure that we are a first world country any more.
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RE: Threats and Intimidation, Go Religion!
July 2, 2011 at 10:20 pm
Fair enough, but what this sounds like is that a large number of the pilots have no balls. I see no discussion of religion being directly involved in stopping this happening.
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RE: Threats and Intimidation, Go Religion!
July 2, 2011 at 11:09 pm
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RE: Threats and Intimidation, Go Religion!
July 3, 2011 at 2:34 am
I don't really blame the pilots. There are still places in the US where even being perceived as an atheist can be detrimental to your property, your pets, and yourself. In one small Mississippi town I lived in, I was shunned, my tires slashed, and my cats killed not because I had openly declared myself an atheist, but because I was seen reading Atheism: The Case Against God by George H. Smith.
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