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Rejection of a person's god is like romantic rejection.

You know, this explains why Marcus has always been so mean. I should have let him down more easy.

Maybe it's because I'm English, but his stress patterns are very off-putting.

Another good video.

God of the Paradox
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Evidently that was a big problem in the Bronze Age.

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You atheists are so insecure about your religion!

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Atheist fanatics and religious fanatics. Cut from the same cloth.

Atheist are like flaming gays(not all gays) just the ones that want to give you the graphic details of their bedroom life. So much so, they become writers for HBO and Showtime.

What's wrong with just silently protesting Jesus? Do you have to crap on peoples religion, what are they hurting? Not every religious person is a pious zealot. Or hypocrites, most of them are good people and want to be on the side of righteousness.

I'm often humbled by these people.

I once had a hypothetical conversation about what if you were a tradesman, hired to do work for a Real estate investor. You know this guy just acquired the property, and the ink is still wet on the deed.
You're hired to knock out a wall and do some remodeling.
You find a sack with over 100K of old money, and some jewelry and gold.
What would you do?

I said, I would place the items in my work truck, and go on like nothing happened. I surprised that almost everyone else in this lunch conversation invoked the ownership clause in the argument to distinguish the rightful owner. The new property owner flipper, even if this guy never even planed on living in the house.
They all said they would call the owner immediately and tell him what they found.

So then I asked if they went to church, and they all did.

It was refreshing in this day and age, when morality is waning and the news is chocked full of the worlds worst people doing the worst things to people, that there's still people that believe in values.

They didn't judge me, but I did judge myself amongst that company.

freak80 says

Atheist fanatics and religious fanatics. Cut from the same cloth.

In the same way that peace fanatics and war fanatics are cut from the same cloth.

Yep, cut from the same cloth.

Welp that settles it, there's an internet meme pictorial to illustrate the point. Thread closed.

CaptainShuddup says

Welp that settles it, there's an internet meme pictorial to illustrate the point. Thread closed.

There's plenty of photographic and video evidence that shows religious inspired violence. If you like, I could post gigabytes of it.

There is no evidence ever of violence committed in the name of atheism. 'Nuff said.

God is a dead man, we like dead things, we kill everything we eat, we all gonna die someday, it's a natural phenomena, may as well surround your pitiful little temporary place here on earth with it

Dan said, "There is no evidence ever of violence committed in the name of atheism. 'Nuff said."

I'm calling bullshiz on that. Some of the worst crimes against humanity this past century were committed by atheists against people with faith.
Stalin had his purges, tens of millions sent to Siberia to die because they wanted to keep their faith rather than accept the party line.
Mao was famous for his "cultural revolution" where all traces of Christian faith were eliminated along with any other religious symbols or practitioners not allowed by his atheist government.

The horrors of atheism are well demonstrated. It's a religion, same as any other, but tends to be more fanatic with little to no checks on what its adherents will do to advance their cause.
It's no accident that atheists are regarded with more suspicion than child molesters. I consider child molesters the lowest form of human, but I guess not everyone agrees.

Quigley says

I'm calling bullshiz on that. Some of the worst crimes against humanity this past century were committed by atheists against people with faith.
Stalin had his purges, tens of millions sent to Siberia to die because they wanted to keep their faith rather than accept the party line.
Mao was famous for

Of course you do. Idiots always call bullshit when I say that atheism hasn't been the cause of mass deaths, and the fools always use the same examples of Stalin and Mao. So I have to repeat the same counter-argument a thousand times because the religious never learn from their mistakes.

As I stated in this thread...

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Every time atheists show that history is full of examples of religion being used to justify evil and that Christian history in particular has no gaps between its acts of evil, the religious always try to point to Communism as the one and only example of atheists doing bad things.

Yes, I will concede that atheists can do evil. No crap. Statistically, they are far less likely. Furthermore, Stalin and Mao did not do evil because they are atheists, but rather because they are dictators. To argue that Stalin was evil because he was an atheist makes as much sense as arguing that Stalin and Hitler were evil because they both had mustaches. Gee, I guess Charlie Chaplin and Tom Selleck must also be evil bastards.

You can tell he's evil by the mustache.

However, the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, the Crusades, the destruction of the Library of Alexandria, the murder of Hypatia, and everything else I mentioned was directly and intrinsically motivated by religion. That's the difference.

Stalin was coincidentally an atheist and would have been a fucking asshole even if he was Christian. The motherfuckers in the Inquisition tortured people directly because of their religion. Totally different. To attempt to imply that Communism is evidence that atheism is bad is disingenuous. To attempt to imply that the Spanish Inquisition is evidence that religion is bad is not.

Yet, I'll have to listen to this false argument again and again for ever because it's the only ammunition the religious have against atheism.

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Next time some fool uses the Stalin/Mao argument, I'm posting bottomless pictures of Tom Selleck. Don't think I'm bluffing. I will. I will totally show you his magnum private eye if anyone ever makes that lame ass argument again.