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Thanks for making my point. I also do not have a graduate degree therefore I can parrot libtard schidt and be the dumbazz many expect me to be.

Who is this TAK? Did he make you appear to be the dumbazz you are for real?

That is precisely what they are trying to do. We know "why".

I explain to people the reason they do this,and get the "deer in the headlights" look. They do not believe , or the concept is so abstract to them that it goes completely over their heads. [bleep] educations. not well read.

To no one in particular,

Click On This Link for evidence that supports the notion that there are no atheists. There are only theists, and people who are trying to evade theism. This is from a man who is a former evader. A good read.

The fool sayeth in his heart there is no God. 14th Psalm

Until 1947, the Supreme Court had ruled numerous times that America was indeed a "Christian nation." I guess they decided that WWII had changed that, or that early jurisprudence had been wrong.

Yes. It's TAK again.

I like the way you think

Years ago, and I've told this story before here, I was hunting on a private campground. The owner was involved with the local neo-pagan church, and was getting a lot of heat from the locals. The county sheriff and some of the deputies all attended the same Christian church up the road, and the pastor was telling his flock that the pagans were all devil worshippers and had to be expunged from the county.

Al, the owner, and a bunch of his friends got hassled by the police a lot. Once Al even got arrested and detained on a noise ordinance violation. It should have been a simple ticket, but instead they took him down to the pokey, fingerprinted him and strip searched him before making him sit in a cell for hours. When a judge got assigned to the case, he was from the same church. You see what's coming.

Mind you, I'm not a pagan. I'm just a good Methodist boy. However, I can't stand to see this kind of breach of civil rights, especially when it might interfere with my deer hunting. Mind you as well, these were not Satanists, just a bunch of New-Age tree-hugging types. Along about Halloween, I got a call from a buddy of mine at WKRC-TV news, wanting to know if I knew of any witch types they can interview for Halloween. I saw an opportunity, and the next thing you know, Channel 12's doing a live feed from Al's campground, showing their Samhein celebration. Al came off as a cool hippy grandfather in a bathrobe. The next thing you know it leads to some major newspaper coverage of the legal issues, and somebody somewhere got hold of it and it went national.

Enter the Jews. The ADL pledged support, and was going to bankroll the defense, and take it as far as SCOTUS if need be. Their theory, and it pays to take notice here, is that it is better to defend religious rights with cases involving Pagans and Santerians and such so that the issue never ends up on the door of a Jewish Synagogue. I mention the Santerians, because their previous big case had been defending the right of the Voodoo folks to kill chickens in their celebrations. If the chicken deal had gone south, the next step might have been going after Kosher slaughterhouses. See how this works?

So why should Atheists care? The point is that once you've done away with all the other religions, something is going to try and fill the void. It could be Gaia worship. It could be North Korean/Stalinist-type state worship. You cannot do away with a basic human need. The problem for Atheists, is that as it is, an Atheist can be pretty much left alone. That could change. Given a free hand and no other religion out there for competition, whose to say we might not end up with a Roman style religion, where the state makes worshiping the idols of the state compulsory? What if not attending the weekly committee meeting becomes a felony? What if you have to join in order to work, or vote, or have children? That might all be in store once there is no competition.

I like Flying Spaghetti Monsters and Invisible Pink Unicorns as much as the next fellow. It's all a good laugh. However, the last thing I want is someone making me tithe 30% to one of them.

Actually, I've run into at least two militant (I prefer to call them "evangelical") agnostics in my life. Their shtick was, "I don't know whether there's a God, and neither do you, because it's unknowable!"

I saw a guy once work this into an argument that the holiest day of the year for atheists is April 1.

Barak,



Now that's funny.

I thought so too, but I can't reproduce it, so getting the full benefit requires some imagination.