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   From: seongf@gmail.com   
      
   "HD"  wrote in message   
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   > "Seon Ferguson"  wrote in message   
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   >> "HD"  wrote in message   
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   >>> "Peter Webb"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:4983e8a8$0$20975$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...   
   >>>> Atheists have done lots of bad things, but not because they are   
   >>>> atheists, but because they are bad people.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Whereas Muslim terrorists do bad things because they are Muslims.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Atheism is not comparable to having religious beliefs; religious   
   >>>> nutters quite often kill people for religious reasons; atheists do not.   
   >>>> Atheism is not a religion, and it does not dictate how people should   
   >>>> live and who they should hate.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Let me see if I got that right.   
   >>> Atheists do bad thinngs because they are bad people.   
   >>> Christians do bad things, not because they are bad people, but because   
   >>> they are religious.   
   >>> Is that an Irish joke?   
   >>>   
   >> How many people were burnt at the stake or tortured because of a   
   >> mistranslated Bible verse that said thou shalt not suffer a witch to   
   >> live?   
   > None.   
   > Some perverts got a sexual satisfaction from having the power over the   
   > life and dead of others. They used religion to satisfy their perversion.   
   >   
   They wouldn't have wanted to burn witches at the stake if it wasn't for   
   religion. Just like Muslims and 911.   
      
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