Hi Stathis Papaioannou I believe that the real reason that atheists attack religion is that they fear its possible political power to condemn you and order your obedience. I think they have a somewhat reasonable case, so I advocate legal separation of church and state, although I don't personally see any harm in thanking God for anything or putting up a christmas display. My church is totally opposed to such strict separation, so we agree.
A more dangerous case that I would support the athests in is against Sharia Law. Of course most muslims are not militants or terrorists, but those that are are dangerous and violent enemies of freeedom and democracy. Why ? I heard one fundamentalist muslim terrorist in interview say that Islam cannot survive without state support. So I welcome all atheist opoosition at least to Sharia. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 9/10/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function." ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Stathis Papaioannou Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-10, 01:14:16 Subject: Re: victims of faith On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Alberto G. Corona <agocor...@gmail.com> wrote: > So you have a very strong belief: That almost all but a few > enlightened people like you in the History of humanity are a bunch of > silly idiots. Actually, almost everyone in the history of humanity has thought that 99.99% of all religions are silly, and that they were fortuitously born into the 0.01% that wasn't. Atheists take it a bit further and think that 100% of all religions are silly. Agnostics, if they are consistent, say that it is possible that the archangel gabriel dictated the Quran to Muhammad just as it is possible that Santa Claus and his helpers construct toys for the world's children at the North Pole. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
