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Re: One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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Mon, 8 Jul 2002 20:43:04 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> > Can you not see the contradiction you're broadcasting? You are constantly
> > sputtering about "athiests" and "leftists" as if either group can be painted
> > with a single brush, but then you get your undies in a bunch when people
> > applie your own standards to the club to which you belong! Disingenuous
> > doesn't begin to cover it!
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> Back up there, schoolboy.
Easy there, zealot.
> Atheists *can* be categorized insofar as that they all have one thing in
> common that binds them-- no belief in God. But you would be hard pressed to
> find a single common belief among *all* Christians, short of their belief in
> God (in which case you are hardly talking about Christians in particular).
How about an alleged belief in Christ? That seems like a binding factor
that unites Andrea Yates, Torquemada, Emperor Constantine, David Koresh,
Mother Theresa, and Padre Pio, regardless of the different manifestations of
each.
Your willingness to lump athiests into one bunch is exactly illustrative
of your bigotry and, frankly, the bigotry that pervades this country in
which we pretend to value freedom of religion. I do *NOT* group all Xtians
under one tent except when rhetorically forced to do so.
> > And let's be honest; can you name an athiest *prior* to the last hundred
> > years who qualifies as one of the "greatest butchers of all time?" I can
> > think of several Xtians who fit that category, spanning a far greater
> > stretch of time than the past century.
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> This really isn't what I want to argue about-- I really haven't a qualm with
> atheists WRT to this. I just found it interesting that RM didn't list them,
> that's all. Unless you *want* to argue that atheists have *no* blood on their
> hands, I have nothing more to say about it.
I would venture to say that in the history of the world the blood on
athiests' collective hands is a drop in the ocean compared to the blood on
theists' hands. Truly religion elevates the character of man to its noblest
stature!
Dave!
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