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From: q0320811@mail.connect.usq.edu.au
Kelsey Bjarnason wrote in
news:fi7hb6-ek8.ln1@spankydtr.imagenisp.com:
> On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:12:06 +0000, David Moss wrote:
>
>> fasgnadh wrote in
>> news:1HNDl.2295$y61.1343@news- server.bigpond.net.au:
>>
>>> Nth Korea really exists, it is one of the last atheist regimes and
>>> it's a haven for blind belief, tyranny and all the other trappings
>>> of atheist regimes..
>>
>> Human beings are hard wired to believe in a higher power.
>
> If that were true, why is it many of us have no such belief?
When you look closely most humans have an unreasonable belief about
something. I'm betting yours is that God does not exist.
>> If you
>> brutally suppress belief in God, don't be surprised if an unreasoning
>> belief in "Dear Leader" emerges to replace it.
>
> Don't try to confuse fag nads; he's constitutionally incapable of
> telling the difference between violence done _by_ atheists and
> violence done _in the name of_ atheism. Worse, he seems incapable of
> noticing, even when it's pointed out, that much - if not indeed all -
> of the notable violence done by theists is done *precisely* in the
> name of their religion.
From what I've noticed most of the violence done by theists is done for
personal enrichment or gratification and the name of their deity is only
tacked on for PR purposes.
Atheists tend to tack on the name of a cause, such as socialism, for the
same reason.
--
David Moss
Personal opinion only
The Australian Politics Resource
http://politics.sunnybar.dynip.com
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