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Greetings from secular Frogland
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Greetings from secular Frogland
August 19, 2011 at 3:38 pm
A skeptic friend mentioned this fine forum to me and I thought I'd love it.

I'm an atheist that grew up in yet an other secular republic where matters of the state and matters of religions are also separated. I'm a regular listener of Dogma Free America and of Irreligiosophy and else I mostly listen to science and skeptics podcast.

It's always a pleasure to confirm that the values that makes a democracy work somewhere on your side of the globe are also the norm for the on other side of the globe. Separation of church and state are the only way to end up with an egalitarian system where one's religion cannot rule over someone else's or oppress the people with none. I just hope we will preserve it like that in the years to come.

In any case it's more than a pleasure to compare notes with other atheists and free thinkers.


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RE: Greetings from secular Frogland
August 19, 2011 at 3:39 pm
Take decaff next time, welcome.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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RE: Greetings from secular Frogland
August 19, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Ribbit!

(August 19, 2011 at 3:39 pm)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote: Take decaff next time, welcome.

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RE: Greetings from secular Frogland
August 19, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Anyone with espresso in their name is welcome by me.

[waves a hand dirty from pulling massive dinosaur-age-looking weeds out of the yard] Welcome from humid and irritable North Carolina.
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RE: Greetings from secular Frogland
August 19, 2011 at 9:37 pm
Hi! Welcome Smile

Also from England here and I have to say I have no clue what you're talking about with this 'separation of Church and state' it's a nice idea but far from reality.
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RE: Greetings from secular Frogland
August 20, 2011 at 8:19 am
Hey there, welcome to AF!

Are you related to these guys perhaps..? :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q7Cd80k86g
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura

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RE: Greetings from secular Frogland
August 20, 2011 at 9:34 am
(August 19, 2011 at 3:38 pm)EspressoFrog Wrote: I'm an atheist that grew up in yet an other secular republic where matters of the state and matters of religions are also separated.

Here in America, the line between church and state is getting blurrier and blurrier.

Welcome, Froggy!
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Greetings from secular Frogland
August 20, 2011 at 10:46 am
G'day and welcome!
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RE: Greetings from secular Frogland
August 20, 2011 at 12:34 pm
(August 19, 2011 at 9:37 pm)Skeptic Wrote: Also from England here and I have to say I have no clue what you're talking about with this 'separation of Church and state' it's a nice idea but far from reality.

The guy is from France (or so it says on his profile).

Welcome espresso froggy man.
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RE: Greetings from secular Frogland
August 20, 2011 at 12:37 pm
(August 20, 2011 at 12:34 pm)Napoleon Wrote: The guy is from France (or so it says on his profile).

Welcome espresso froggy man.

I that case he's more French than you are Nappy Tongue
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura

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