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   From: herpem@bigpond.com   
      
   "Kate "  wrote in message   
   news:49c8b164.1276619859@news-west.newscene.com...   
   > On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:22:16 GMT, "HD"  wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>"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?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > The point is, atheism doesn't justify doing bad things, religion does.   
   >   
   > Good people do bad things, like not let gay people marry, because of   
   > religion.   
   >   
      
   "At that time many will call evil good and they will call good evil."   
      
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