On 4/9/18 10:52 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/9/2018 10:50 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 4/9/18 8:30 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/9/2018 7:52 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 4/9/18 1:02 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 21:53:00 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 4/8/18 8:11 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/8/2018 7:57 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
wrote:
On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 18:04:36 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:
On 4/8/18 2:28 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 14:01:25 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:
I'm agnostic, but I don't mind. Someday, we non-believers are
going to
get together so we can emulate you christians and kill
christians,
moslems, jews, buddhists, sikhs, et cetera, because their
religion is
different from ours. Oh, wait...we don't have a religion.
Of course you do. Atheism has become as strong a force in
your life as
any other person's religious beliefs and you force your dogma on
everyone around you by simply being offended and using the
power of
government to quell things you find offensive. It is a unique
form of
offense too because other offensive things don't seem to
bother you at
all.
Atheism is not a force at all. I don't give a **** what the
religious do
in their churches or homes, so long as no one gets hurt. When the
religious try to push their superstitions on society or the
government,
then that is where they exceed what they should be allowed to do.
You push your atheism on everyone, more aggressively than the
worst
evangelist.
Just the fact that you denigrate people's deeply held beliefs
incessantly, demonstrates you are not a live and let live
person. This
is a crusade with you and you are trying to rid the world of
religion.
That IS a religion in and of itself or certainly a belief system.
Too funny. I have never asked or demanded that anyone believe as
I do on
this subject. All I would like is for the religious to stop
forcing their
beliefs onto society on government.
Bull****.
Have I ever knocked on your door and asked you if you found
non-religion? (And for Fretwell, I don't mean literally).
People knock on my door, bombard my TV shows or send me mail asking me
about all sorts of things I don't believe in but that is their right.
It is my right to ignore them.
Would you deny the right of people to talk about their religion but
allow them to tell me about why I should accept their other strange
deviancies.
I don't care if people "talk" about their religion so long as they
don't try to force their religious beliefs on me or my country or in
legislation.
I know this is a waste of time but then why do you insist on posting
your regular anti-religion tirades here and mocking those who happen
to have faith in something?
You're a hypocrite.
Why do the religious post religious tirades here? Because they can.
First amendment, after all. Got it?
Oh, I get it ok.Â* You're a hypocrite.
I have no objection to the superstitious expressing their religious
beliefs publicly, but I do object when they push those beliefs onto
rules, regulations, laws others who believe differently must follow, or
when they use public property to promote those views.
It's perfectly ok for a church or a homeowner or the owner of a private
business on private property to put up a monument of the 10 commandments
on the front lawn, or a creche, or a statue of jesus, et cetera. It's
NOT ok for those religious symbols to be put up in a public park, a
courthouse, a public school, a publicly owned civic center, because
doing that promotes religion.
A few years ago, a local church started putting up a month before
elections a display of several hundred little crosses along with an
anti-abortion sign. It owns the property on which the display is
erected. I called the minister to point out that not all the fetuses
that are aborted are of christian families. He agreed, so the next year
there were some little stars of david and little crescent moons and
stars, to include jewish and moslem fetuses. Makes me smile when I see
the display each year, because it is a legally proper display of the
first amendment, and it is inclusive.
