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I'm not really as upset as my posts indicate Seebs, I'm just trying to get a point across.
I'm not attacking ANYone here either. I have moved to Texas 9-10 years ago and I watch GW Baboon on CNN. I'm tired of sitting around and watching the WALL of C/S get knocked down. That's all... PEACE... |
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When you attack a belief system, you will necessarily polarize people who hold it against you. Christianity isn't busted; Christians, like everyone else, are a bit dodgy around the edges. In the real world, if you are to be a pragmatist, you will have to deal with real people, not stereotypes. |
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If you could phrase your concerns as about the church/state issue, rather than as a call for all atheists everywhere to go out there and show those bastard Christians what-for, you would probably get a lot more support, and have a much more narrowly-defined target. Both of these would help a lot if you want to actually accomplish something. |
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So, I'd say it's working. I have an existance proof. In the end, you can fight religion, and make things worse for everybody, or you can fight intolerance, and make things better for everybody. Actually, you could always convert, and then you could fight atheism, and make things worse for everybody; it's attacking personal beliefs that causes the trouble. |
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seebs, in some sense that experiment is underway. You can think of atheism as placebo and Christianity as the medication under test. So far placebo appears to be working better than Christianity.
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They're all supposed to work--but we know that programs have bugs and space missions go awry, toys have to be recalled and innocent people are sentenced to death. When you have humans involved, then you have human error. Same with the application of any system or the design of any object. The application of Christianity contains errors and faults because humans are involved--their emotions and preconceptions and faults all get rolled up in there. Same with everything else. --tibac |
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