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\'\'I just don\'t feel that I have to study the bible to find inconsistancies to use against religion is all. That\'s just me.\'\'
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\\\'\\\'I just don\\\'t feel that I have to study the bible to find inconsistencies to use against religion is all. That\\\'s just me.\\\'\\\'
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And that\'s fine for you, but for people who do not agree with some of the values exposed by religion, that is the best way to counter it: analyzing its source. \
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And that\\\'s fine for you, but for people who do not agree with some of the values exposed by religion, that is the best way to counter it: analyzing its source. \\\"Know your enemy\\\" and all that.
\\\'\\\'For another, just where is there anything that gives support to the idea of atheists being executed?\\\'\\\'
Believe it or not, along with Gypsies and Homosexuals, they were in the gas chambers too. Most were not secular humanists, though, but Marxist-Leninists (Communists).
\\\'\\\'There\\\'s been millions of religious murders by atheists (the fact that they were not because of religion is neither here nor there)\\\'\\\'
Oh, Stalin and Mao, your Communism always gets confused with Atheism proper.
Blaming Atheism for Mao and Stalin is like blaming 9/11 on religion itself. Only partly on the mark, but only gaining a half point.
But to be fair, that was an extreme example you were given and honestly a rather dishonest one. In the United States, Atheists share the same intolerance as Homosexuals. Not denial of Marriage, but hate-crimes are occasionally lobbed at them and every now and again we stumble across a state with a charter barring Atheists from holding public office.
People don\\\'t like Atheists and legislate against them regularly. Often, on religious grounds. In the past it was pretty bad--protect only by our extreme rarity and the prominence of other people to hate on. Also, the modern concept of Atheism (as Secular Humanism) didn\\\'t appear until the early 1940s and the term itself was only openly adopted int he 50s and 60s.
Because when people generally say \\\"Atheism\\\" they tend to mean \\\"Secular Humanism\\\". They do tend to be the loudest of us.
\\\'\\\'For another, just where is there anything that gives support to the idea of atheists being executed?\\\'\\\'
Believe it or not, along with Gypsies and Homosexuals, they were in the gas chambers too. Most were not secular humanists, though, but Marxist-Leninists (Communists).
\\\'\\\'There\\\'s been millions of religious murders by atheists (the fact that they were not because of religion is neither here nor there)\\\'\\\'
Oh, Stalin and Mao, your Communism always gets confused with Atheism proper.
Blaming Atheism for Mao and Stalin is like blaming 9/11 on religion itself. Only partly on the mark, but only gaining a half point.
But to be fair, that was an extreme example you were given and honestly a rather dishonest one. In the United States, Atheists share the same intolerance as Homosexuals. Not denial of Marriage, but hate-crimes are occasionally lobbed at them and every now and again we stumble across a state with a charter barring Atheists from holding public office.
People don\\\'t like Atheists and legislate against them regularly. Often, on religious grounds. In the past it was pretty bad--protect only by our extreme rarity and the prominence of other people to hate on. Also, the modern concept of Atheism (as Secular Humanism) didn\\\'t appear until the early 1940s and the term itself was only openly adopted int he 50s and 60s.
Because when people generally say \\\"Atheism\\\" they tend to mean \\\"Secular Humanism\\\". They do tend to be the loudest of us.
