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[KagatobLuvsAnimu]

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[Sidelle]

Omg. Shut up, Kagatob. Your posts make me tired.

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[KagatobLuvsAnimu]

Originally Posted by Sidelle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Omg. Shut up, Kagatob. Your posts make me tired.

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Sounds like a personal problem.

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[DetroitVelvetSmooth]

Kagatob is by far the worst person here. Just so... tedious. Pseudo-intellectual, sheltered, and most importantly - confidently wrong about the way the world is. And that's saying something in this particular context. You idiots.

[KagatobLuvsAnimu]

Originally Posted by DetroitVelvetSmooth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

confidently wrong

[Glenzig]

Originally Posted by KagatobLuvsAnimu [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

And... they disbanded in 1947. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ah. So that means none of it actually happened. I like how that works.

[LulzSect]

Otaku nerd raises fair points. Is today Opposite Day?

[runlvlzero]

Kagatob I think it's time you top worrying about what other people are doing on their own time, and start praising juses more so that you can learn to live withyourself and then u will be ok with all those juses freaks.

P.S. thx Katrik Juses is the best #1 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Archalen]

Originally Posted by RobotElvis [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The League of Militant Atheists aided the Soviet government in killing clergy and committed believers.[48] The League also made it a priority to remove religious icons from the homes of believers.[49] Under the slogan, "the Storming of Heaven," the League of Militant Atheists pressed for "resolute action against religious peasants" leading to the mass arrest and exile of many believers, especially village priests. By 1940, "over 100 bishops, tens of thousands of Orthodox clergy, and thousands of monks and lay believers had been killed or had died in Soviet prisons and the Gulag.

The League purged its rightist members in 1932–1934. In addition, the League of Militant Atheists sometimes took a violent approach to those who would not accept the League's message. For example, "bishops, priests, and lay believers" were "arrested, shot, and sent to labour camps."[25]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leagu...itant_Atheists

You could go back and forth on the "this atheist did this, this religious person did that" debate for a long time and get nowhere.

There is nothing inherently good about atheism, but there is nothing inherently bad either. If you suspend logic to become religious, you are in danger of believing other myths also not founded on reason. You can, at your own discretion, run errands for your god that are good for society only if your particular religious worldview happens to be true.

To clarify, I've seen atheists who are uber-rational when it comes to religion, but then suspend logic to believe in the religion of self-correcting free markets. Or believe in the religion of the state (stupidly defend everything their political party does). So my argument is not for atheism, it is for rationality in general.

[paulgiamatti]

Originally Posted by Archalen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You could go back and forth on the "this atheist did this, this religious person did that" debate for a long time and get nowhere.

There is nothing inherently good about atheism, but there is nothing inherently bad either. If you suspend logic to become religious, you are in danger of believing other myths also not founded on reason. You can, at your own discretion, run errands for your god that are good for society only if your particular religious worldview happens to be true.

To clarify, I've seen atheists who are uber-rational when it comes to religion, but then suspend logic to believe in the religion of self-correcting free markets. Or believe in the religion of the state (stupidly defend everything their political party does). So my argument is not for atheism, it is for rationality in general.

QFT!

I have to reiterate, I just think it's incredibly silly that atheism has become a "movement". I think it's absurd to proclaim, "I am an atheist!". What are you atheistic about? Thor? Zeus? The tooth fairy? Everyone is an atheist when it comes to some deity or another, just as agnosticism is atheistic by definition - it's still the unbelief in deity.

I do have to differ on calling statism a religion though, even though I know that's a point that's often made by many leftist public intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky. It doesn't make sense in my mind to suddenly start calling a whole bunch of different things "religion" when we all know exactly what religion is and what religion means. Just because I religiously brush my teeth in the morning doesn't mean I am now devoted to the religion of dental hygiene.