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   XPost: alt.talk.creationism, alt.atheism   
   From: bruces42@hotmail.com   
      
   On 04/05/2016 10:19 AM, Bob Officer wrote:   
   > Alex W.  wrote:   
      
   >> There is, however, a secondary purpose: to oppose, counter or at least   
   >> mitigate the religious mindset and so to reduce its impact on all our   
   >> lives.  Uncontested, the god-ridden mindset will happily attempt to   
   >> order society from the very shape and functioning of the nation down to   
   >> the day to day decisions of the individual according to the spurious   
   >> diktats of the deity.  For all our sakes, this must not be allowed.   
   >   
   > Or the dictates of the man on the pulpit.   
      
   IMO, it's always the man on the pulpit.  Whatever the magic book being   
   invoked, it's the man interpreting that book that counts.  Despite all   
   the horrific things in the Bible, I know of no priests who (openly)   
   advocate genocide, rape, slavery, etc.  Instead, the modern ones pick   
   and choose from the Bible passages that support their "morality", such   
   as it is.  The dictates of the deity are not important to the believers.   
      
   > I witnessed the froth which these warped control freaks can bring forth.   
   > Their monologues and pronouncements which on the TV seem to hold the sheep   
   > in thrall, changing them in an instant to lemmings running over the cliffs.   
      
   Fine by me.  Let the believers "run over the cliffs".  The real problem   
   comes when they want to push the rest of us over the cliffs.   
      
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