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From: herpem@bigpond.com
"Kate " wrote in message
news:49ccf6c7.1294382062@news-west.newscene.com...
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:33:34 GMT, "HD" wrote:
>
>>
>>"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."
>
> Precisely - if you rely on religion to tell you what's good,
> eventually your progeny will disown you.
Why?
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