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Old 10-31-2002, 06:58 AM   #1
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<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/atheists021031.html" target="_blank">http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/atheists021031.html</a>

Nice article, although nothing we haven't all seen or said before. At least there wasn't a response from some pigheaded fundy.
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Nice article, although nothing we haven't all seen or said before. At least there wasn't a response from some pigheaded fundy.</strong>
The article was okay for what it was, but I disagree with you about not having to put up with some fundy nonsense. What's better to promote atheism than some having some semi-accepted lunatic denegrate free thought?
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Old 10-31-2002, 07:22 AM   #3
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The article was okay for what it was, but I disagree with you about not having to put up with some fundy nonsense. What's better to promote atheism than some having some semi-accepted lunatic denegrate free thought?</strong>
If the semi-accepted lunatic denegrating free thought is allowed to comment unchallenged, then it might do more harm than good. Some of those guys sound pretty smart to people who haven't thought about the issue as much as we have.
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I thought that was a fine article, quite balanced and sane on the whole. The point about Satanists in the Godless American March is interesting, though:

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It is tough to shake the image of atheists as a fringe group, however. The Godless Americans march made headlines when it agreed to allow some Satanist groups to participate, on the grounds that they were not actually religious organizations.
Ya see, you're a nut if you worship a horned guy with hooves, but not if you worship a vindictive and admittedly jealous Hebrew wargod who occasionally makes *wagers* with the horned guy (i.e. Job)...

I was dubious about allowing Satanists in the Godless march personally, but, whatever.
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<strong>If the semi-accepted lunatic denegrating free thought is allowed to comment unchallenged, then it might do more harm than good. Some of those guys sound pretty smart to people who haven't thought about the issue as much as we have.</strong>
Agreed.

A reporter in Dallas did a story on the North Texas Church of Freethought and she had fundies giving one liners about how atheists were damned to hell. This was defended as being "a balanced story."

When ABC News does a story about Jews or Blacks do they go get comments from Nazis or the KKK respectively to provide "a balanced view"?

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