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   From: Esque"@gmail.com   
      
   On 4/5/2016 7:29 PM, Bob Officer wrote:   
   > BruceS  wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Remember the pulpit holders were against the American Revolution, they   
   > frothed at the mouth about separatist of church and state. They general   
   > thought slavery was good and used passages in the bible to support slavery.   
   > That's all from history.   
   > Personal knowledge was the churches in general supported the draft during   
   > the Vietnam War, and some went so far as to open council and state there   
   > was no such thing as being a Christian grounds for refusing the draft.   
    >   
   You post this crap without a shred of backup, just your "observation"   
   poor as they are. This is based on total total bias, poor observation   
   and anti theist print! just a one sided POV.   
   >   
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   > Least the stampede of lemmings drag us all down.   
   >   
   Talk about lemmings atheist think alike - why is that!?   
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