XPost: aus.politics, alt.atheism   
   From: abaddon@purgatory.org.invalid   
      
   It was written:   
      
   >   
   >> Pelican   
   >>> "Ördög"   
   >>   
   >>>> One can be a theist but not be religious.   
   >> How?   
   >   
   > because all religions have particular beliefs and practices. one can   
   > believe God (a creator being) exists but nothing in particular about it   
      
   The question of Theism vs Atheism is a question for philosophy and   
   science.   
   The question of Religions vs Atheist-activism is a question for the power   
   politics of social domination and mind-control.   
      
   >>>> "Strong" atheists actually target the religious nutjobs,   
   >> Any theists who try to ram their delusion down other people's throats,   
   >> actually.   
   >>   
   >>>> because they are a real menace to a civilised 21st Century society.   
   >> They've never been anything less than a menace to the ideal of a humane   
   >> society; they have frequently been massively and murderously   
   >> destructive to societies unlike what they decree.   
   >>   
   >>>> What one does behind the closed doors of his/her home in worshipping   
   >>>> some invented sky fairy is totally irrelevant to a secular culture!   
   >> Not one that thinks through what those lunatics are doing to any   
   >> children in their so-called care.   
   >>   
   >>> Bullshit.   
   >> Not sure what you're objecting to. Some of it's almost rational.   
      
      
   --   
   Ördög   
   "Beware of the man whose God is in the skies."   
    Bernard Shaw   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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