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   XPost: alt.atheism, alt.agnosticism   
   From: duckgumbo32@cox.net   
      
   Rupert  wrote:   
   > > >> It really does suck to be you.   
   > >   
   > > > You are wrong on both counts.   
   > >   
   > > I'm right on all *three* counts, Your Wobbliness. =A0You forgot the third   
   > > one: =A0that it sucks to be you.   
   >   
   > I can think of quite a few advantages to being me.   
      
   Religion claims that immorality always springs from a lack of religion,   
   but the facts prove just the opposite. Christianity has never been   
   stronger than it is today, Christians have churches in every community,   
   they monopolize radio and television time with religious propaganda,   
   they have forced their religion into our government, our laws, and into   
   our schools. They have done these things against the Constitution of the   
   United States, and against the most basic and sacred rights of all other   
   Americans. Like a sinking ship, with water rushing in and filling every   
   compartment where it was not supposed to be, so religion has attacked   
   our nation, rushed in where it was not supposed to be, where it has no   
   business to be, silencing all opposition, all opposing views, poisoning   
   the wells of our knowledge, and endangering the very roots of our   
   nation.   
      
   Christianity is that strong today, and yet we have not achieved any   
   respectable amount of morality in this country. Nowhere is the failure   
   of Christian morality more evident than in America. During the same time   
   that Christianity has been growing ever stronger and ever richer, over   
   the past thirty years or so, the use of harmful drugs has became a   
   national scandal, the crime rate has been climbing ever higher and ever   
   faster, the divorce rate has skyrocketed, and during that time our   
   nation has been embroiled in more wars and international conflicts than   
   in any other similar time period in its history. During that time, our   
   nation was also getting its 5000 or so weird religious cults, a   
   byproduct of Christian indoctrination. Right to-day we have the highest   
   narcotics abuse rate, the highest crime rate, the highest divorce rate,   
   and the highest 'religion rate' that we have ever had in the history of   
   this nation. What does Christianity say about these facts and how to   
   cure them? They tell us we need more religion and they are determined to   
   force it upon us. Christianity feels so strong today that it is moving   
   into politics to try to force its failing morality upon every American   
   through a Christian Dictatorship and a new Dark Age.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)