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Old 03-17-2004, 08:52 AM   #1
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Over here , 'somebody' mentions this:

"Well, I can tell you at over at the Swamp that's one of their weakest points: they talk about it at a couple forums but over and over and over again you get:

1) why can't an atheist act morally?

2) we can form [read: make up]our own morality!

In short, it's by far their weakest point. And they seem all too keenly aware of it....... "

Gee - didn't youpeople know that we all jsut "make up" our morality and we all know it is our 'weakest point'?


Which is really weird, becasue in my experience, the atheists that I jave known are universally more law abiding, compassionate, and 'moral' than the most fervent bible nuts I have come across.

Love those religious blionders they put on...
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"NO!! I'm not going there!!! I am issueing a challenge to their members who hide in their own territory, lying in wait for people who wander in, to come to my forum. Tricks will do them no good. They must be able to answer my questions which are already a part of this thread!!! They have no chance against me and they know it. Is there no one there who dares to answer my questions about atheism?????
So far, no one has taken the challenge!!=="

So instead, we should go to YOUR territory, where the ever-looming specter of CENSORSHIP is everpresent, where your 'questions' are little more than expansions on a litany of linked right-wing propaganda....

No chance against you...


Riiiiggghhhttt.......

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Caution: the whole game there is rigged: in-house trolls, massive sockpuppetry, moderators who look the other way if the theist is being verbally abused (but who immediately warn the theist if he should respond in kind). You would be banned in less than a week. And they would congratulate themselves on having 'refuted your arguments' too! Have you read pz's stuff at ARN? He's, get THIS, a MODERATOR at the evo forum at the Swamp! That will give you an idea: even-handedness isn't even a GOAL there.....
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Right-wing simpletons are nothing if not hypocritical....
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Old 03-23-2004, 07:55 AM   #4
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Whoa...so we're the "Swamp" now? Huh.

Edited to add: i'll take the plunge, though my answers will have to be brief since i'm a bit tied up at work. I can reply while waiting for compiles
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Right-wing simpletons are nothing if not hypocritical....
I can say the same thing about the left. Left-wing simpletons are nothing if not hypocritical.


Now I find it distubring what those people are saying. Some of them seem to think that atheist practice beastiality. I never knew an Atheist that did that. Also the idea what we can't have morals if we have no god is flawed. We can still have our own morals based on how we think others should treat us.
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I'm going to make an honest effort t answer some of the questions, but the admin does seem rather fired up over this topic. I'm going to try and get him to just post a few things and start fresh and go from there.

But, yes, he/she does seem to have some gross misconceptions about atheism.
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Plognark, you're very brave. :notworthy They do seem too clueless to bicker with.
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Nah, just misinformed. Maybe I can shed some light on the topic; not that i'm really qualified, but i'll give it a go

Should be interesting at any rate

Edited to add: Hey, does anyone know of anyone other than the pedophile trolls that has ever been banned from this site? I found it interesting that they claim that we ban christians who come here. We're pretty tolerant of some nasty accusatory behavior IMHO...
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I can say the same thing about the left. Left-wing simpletons are nothing if not hypocritical.
Sure, you could say that. But what would the relevance be? have you read any of the malarkey at that place?
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Now I find it distubring what those people are saying. Some of them seem to think that atheist practice beastiality. I never knew an Atheist that did that. Also the idea what we can't have morals if we have no god is flawed. We can still have our own morals based on how we think others should treat us.
Indeed.

Like I said, right wing simpletons...
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Edited to add: Hey, does anyone know of anyone other than the pedophile trolls that has ever been banned from this site? I found it interesting that they claim that we ban christians who come here. We're pretty tolerant of some nasty accusatory behavior IMHO...
The only person I know of is ARN's mturner, who was banned for anti-semitic remarks that he had been warned about making.

I think the whole 'watch it - they ban you if yoiu don't agree' comes form 'leonarde's' (roseland) paranoia. He posted in a thread here after 'mb' had said some inflammatory things and a mod here 'warned' about the tone of the threasd. Leonard insisted in some PMs to me that this was a sign that Peez (I think it was) was out to get him basically.

So, major hysteria/paranoia premoised on the usual antics of conservative/Chrisitian board "moderatores", I suspect.
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