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Re: Extremism for Science and Religion.. atheism doesn't even rate a mention.. it's irrelevant to both! B^D

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From: fasgnadh
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 09:47
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On 17/04/2012 8:41 PM, Helmut Wabnig wrote:
> On 17/04/2012 7:53 PM, fasgnadh wrote:
>> On 3/04/2012 8:47 AM, Fred Hall wrote:
>>> On 3/04/2012 8:18 AM, fasgnadh wrote:
>>>> raven1 contradicts his latest LIE by debating me!!! (Poorly! ;-):
>>>>
>>>> "And here's the *other* reason why no one will debate Fasgnadh..."
>>>>
>>>> BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAHA
>>>>
>>>> Atheist 'arguments' are nothing but LIES and ad hom abuse! B^p
>>>>
>>>> They stop debating me when I point that out, in detail,
>>>> and they Snip and RUN AWAY! B^]
>>>
>>  > Because you are
>>
>> The dominant Alpha Male. B^]
>>
>>>>> On 1/04/2012 8:46 AM, fasgnadh wrote:
>>>>>> On 23/02/2012 4:23 PM, microm2011@hotmail.com wrote:
>>>>>>> It is common sense that science ought not be fighting innocent
>>>>>>> people's beliefs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Science does not fight religion, atheism does,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > Stop right there. "Atheism" doesn't do anything.
>>>>
>>>> Bullshit you lying atheist stooge, you have ALREADY confessed
>>>> the REALITY of atheist states, and they slaughtered MILLIONS: 8^o
>>>>
>>>> # From: raven1 <quoththeraven@nevermore.com>
>>>> # Newsgroups: alt.atheism
>>>> # Subject: Re: Anyone seen Hysteria, Abu Baker Bashir
>>>> # and Kelsey Bjarnyard? B^D
>>>> # Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:15:11 -0500
>>>> # Message-ID: <87ttk498t9sueojr7g4tep9k42rdjlgrr2@4ax.com>
>>>> #
>>>> #
>>>> # > raven1 wrote:
>>>> # >
>>>> # >> Even under officially atheistic regimes such as Stalin's,
>>>>
>>>> Every atheist regime in history has been a totalitarian tyranny
>>>> torturing, terrorising and killing over 80,000,000 people in a
>>>> brief period of seven decades before they CATASTROPHICALLY
>>>> collapsed and religious freedoms were restored!
>>>>
>>>> > Atheists do.
>>>>
>>>> BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAAA
>>>>
>>>> How asinine do lying atheists think people are:
>>>>
>>>> "Nazism doesn't do anything, Nazis do" pfffft!
>>>>
>>>> Atheists, acting together, implement atheist suppression of religion and
>>>> persecution of believers.. they did so in EVERY ATHEIST
>>>> STATE EVER TO EXIST!!!!
>>>>
>>>> Like Nazis, THEY WILL NEVER BE GIVEN ANOTHER SHOT AT IT! B^[
>>>>
>>>> Game, Set, ..MATCH! B^]
>>>>
>>>> > Most atheists, BTW, would be happy to ignore religion as
>>>> > long as it isn't shoved in our faces.
>>>>
>>>> What complete bullshit, atheists have the SAME rights and freedoms
>>>> as theists in the modern, free, open, tolerant, progressive secular
>>>> democracies created, in EVERY INSTANCE, by MAJORITY RELIGIOUS
>>>> societies.. it is in the ATHEIST TYRANNIES where theists have
>>>> not just the atheist attitudes and beliefs but the Black Boot ot
>>>> terror, torture and mass murder, 'shoved in their face"
>>>>
>>>> All you wining little atheists bitches have to moan about endlessly
>>>> in alt.atheism is having friends relatives and the wider society
>>>> celebrate Christmas, which you rabid Dogs PISS ON every year and
>>>> while you HYPOCRITES whine if a few fundies 'threaten'(sic) you with
>>>> with an afterlife (which you don't believe in) in Hell (which you
>>>> don't believe in) , while your violent, psychopathic hate filled inciter
>>>> of slaughter, Warlord(sic) Steve makes DEATH THREATS: 8^o
>>>>
>>>> # From: Steve Knight <sknight51@cox.net>
>>>> # Newsgroups: alt.atheism
>>>> # Subject: A.A. BAAWA - FAQ
>>>> # Message-ID: <p8mrb5lvaf0cj5bp1e4jbmlsqebu9j9b0a@4ax.com>
>>>> # Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:46:34 -0700
>>>> #
>>>> # We kill theists and shit down their throats
>>>> #
>>>> # Warlord Steve
>>>> # BAAWA
>>>>
>>>> "How can you make a revolution without firing squads?"
>>>> - Lenin, 1st Atheist State leader, Militant Atheist role model.
>>>>
>>>> Not satisfied with murder, Steve favours GENOCIDE of every
>>>> Muslim man woman and child, just for believing in something
>>>> the Atheist thugs want to prohibit again, freedom of thought and belief;
>>>>
>>>> # From: Steve Knight <sknight51@cox.net>
>>>> # Newsgroups: alt.atheism,alt.religion.islam
>>>> # Subject: Re: Islam: the perfect religion and way of life for all
>>>> # Message-ID: <8t6ve5hs41qn3a2rv57fjcg60tufoa47pf@4ax.com>
>>>> # Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:58:18 -0800
>>>> #
>>>> # On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:22:32 +0200, "Katrina"
>>>> # <blondes_gaulloises@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> #
>>>> # >Islam: the perfect religion and way of life for all
>>>> #
>>>> # It is the most foul, disgusting filth on Earth.
>>>> # The sooner we nuke you fuckers, the better.
>>>> #
>>>> # Warlord Steve
>>>> # BAAWA
>>>>
>>>> That is no Idle threat, as the slaughter at Oikos University, a
>>>> religious college offering studies in theology, music, and nursing
>>>> and the PREVIOUS atheist mass murders in EVERY atheist regime in history
>>>> PROVES:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_atheism#Wolak2004
>>>> #
>>>> # "State atheism is the official promotion of atheism
>>>> # by a government, typically by active suppression of
>>>> # religious freedom and practice."
>>>> # - "Protest for Religious Rights in the USSR:
>>>> # Characteristics and Consequences,
>>>> # David Kowalewski,
>>>> # Russian Review, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Oct., 1980), pp. 426-441,
>>>> #
>>>> #
>>>> # "An atheist, Pol Pot suppressed Cambodia�s Buddhist religion:
>>>> # monks were defrocked; temples and artifacts, including statues of
>>>> # Buddha, were destroyed; and people praying or expressing
>>>> # other religious sentiments were often killed.
>>>> # ...the government emptied the cities through mass evacuations
>>>> # and sent people to the countryside. Cambodians were overworked
>>>> # and underfed on collective farms, often succumbing to disease or
>>>> # starvation as a result. Spouses were separated and family meals
>>>> # prohibited in order to steer loyalties toward the state
>>>> # instead of the family.
>>>> #
>>>> # About 1.7 million Cambodians, or about 20 percent of the population,
>>>> # were worked, starved, or beaten to death under Pol Pot�s regime."
>>>> # - http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761579038/pol_pot.html
>>>> #
>>>> # The Cambodian Genocide:
>>>> http://www.lietuvos.net/istorija/communism/communism_photos2/392millones.jpg
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> #
>>>> # "The country's 40,000 to 60,000 Buddhist monks,
>>>> # regarded by the regime as social parasites,
>>>> # were defrocked and forced into labor brigades.
>>>> # Many monks were executed; temples and pagodas were
>>>> # destroyed or turned into storehouses or jails.
>>>> # Images of the Buddha were defaced and dumped into
>>>> # rivers and lakes. People who were discovered praying
>>>> # or expressing religious sentiments in other ways
>>>> # were often killed.
>>>> #
>>>> # The Christian and Muslim communities were among the most
>>>> # persecuted, as well. The Roman Catholic cathedral of
>>>> # Phnom Penh was completely razed.
>>>> #
>>>> # The Khmer Rouge forced Muslims to eat pork, which they
>>>> # regard as an abomination. Many of those who refused were killed.
>>>> # Christian clergy and Muslim imams were executed."
>>>> # - http://countrystudies.us/cambodia/29.htm
>>>> #
>>>> # "Forty-eight percent of Cambodia's Christians were killed
>>>> # because of their religion."
>>>> #
>>>> http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk158/CANDEMIELDA/44camboyano.jpg
>>>>
>>>> #
>>>> #
>>>> # "the state established atheism as the only scientific truth."
>>>> # - Daniel Peris,
>>>> # "Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless"
>>>> # Cornell University Press 1998 ISBN 9780801434853
>>>> #
>>>> #
>>>> # "State atheism has been mostly implemented in communist
>>>> # countries, such as the former Soviet Union,[1] China,
>>>> # Communist Albania, Communist Afghanistan, North Korea,
>>>> # Communist Mongolia and Poland under communist rule also
>>>> # promoted state atheism and suppressed religion.
>>>> # - Forced out: the fate of Polish Jewry in Communist Poland.
>>>> # Wolak, Arthur J. p 104
>>>> #
>>>> # In these nations, the governments viewed atheism as an
>>>> # intrinsic part of communist ideology.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That is just a tiny part of the slaughters carried out by atheists,
>>>> running atheist states in the name of atheism.. and the ONLY
>>>> excuse these disgusting apologists for atheist crimes against humanity
>>>> is the "No True Atheist Fallacy"!!!!!!!!
>>>>
>>>> What filthy moral defectives they are!
>>>>
>>>> # The No True Atheist(Scotsman) Fallacy
>>>> #
>>>> # "Imagine Hamish McDonald, a Scotsman, sitting down with
>>>> # his Glasgow Morning Herald and seeing an article about
>>>> # how the "Brighton Sex Maniac Strikes Again." Hamish is
>>>> # shocked and declares that "No Scotsman would do such
>>>> # a thing." The next day he sits down to read his Glasgow
>>>> # Morning Herald again and this time finds an article about
>>>> # an Aberdeen man whose brutal actions make the Brighton
>>>> # sex maniac seem almost gentlemanly. This fact shows that
>>>> # Hamish was wrong in his opinion but is he going to admit this?
>>>> # Not likely. This time he says, "No true Scotsman would do
>>>> # such a thing."
>>>> # �Antony Flew, Thinking About Thinking
>>>> #
>>>> # "Imagine Hashish McRavin1, an Atheist, sitting down with
>>>> # his Godless Morning Pravda and seeing an article about
>>>> # how the "Al Qaida terrorist Strikes Again."
>>>> # Hashish is shocked and declares that "No Atheist would
>>>> # do such a thing." The next day he sits down to read his
>>>> # Godless Morning Pravda again and this time finds an
>>>> # article about an Atheist State whose brutal actions
>>>> # terrorising torturing and killing millions make the AlQaida
>>>> # terrorist seem almost gentlemanly. This fact shows that
>>>> # McRavin1 was wrong in his opinion but is he going to admit this?
>>>> # Not likely. This time he says,
>>>> # "No true Atheist would do such a thing."
>>>> � Fasgnadh, Thinking About Atheist lack of Thinking
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just for the historical record, (you know, the EVIDENCE supplied
>>>> by REALITY, not the IMAGINATION of these atheist LIARS), there
>>>> has never been an atheist state that was a secular democracy.
>>>> EVERY atheist state has been a totalitarian tyranny.
>>>>
>>>> Raven1 is on record admitting (after I presented incontrovertible PROOF)
>>>> the reality of atheist states;
>>>>
>>>> # From: raven1 <quoththeraven@nevermore.com>
>>>> # Newsgroups: alt.atheism
>>>> # Subject: Re: Anyone seen Hysteria, Abu Baker Bashir
>>>> # and Kelsey Bjarnyard? B^D
>>>> # Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:15:11 -0500
>>>> # Message-ID: <87ttk498t9sueojr7g4tep9k42rdjlgrr2@4ax.com>
>>>> #
>>>> #
>>>> # > raven1 wrote:
>>>> # >
>>>> # >> Even under officially atheistic regimes such as Stalin's,
>>>>
>>>> Implementing the FORCED INDOCTRINATION of Children in schools!
>>>>
>>>> You can't brainwash kids with atheism unless atheism
>>>> has AT LEAST ONE IDEA, true or FALSE. And everyone in
>>>> these ATHEIST STATES suffers indoctrination with the propaganda
>>>> of atheist ideology.
>>>>
>>>> All the secular states have been created and sustained by
>>>> MAJORITY RELIGIOUS societies, as Ravin1 has conceded:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> # From: raven1 <quoththeraven@nevermore.com>
>>>> # Newsgroups: alt.atheism
>>>> # Subject: Re: Anyone seen Hysteria, Abu Baker Bashir and Kelsey
>>>> Bjarnyard? B^D
>>>> # Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:15:11 -0500
>>>> # Message-ID: <87ttk498t9sueojr7g4tep9k42rdjlgrr2@4ax.com>
>>>> #
>>>> # There has never been a "Great, Enduring Atheist Civilization"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If course, atheists hate the facts, they prefer to believe
>>>> their man-made FANTASIES.
>>>>
>>>> The True Atheist States are the ones we find in REALITY, murderous
>>>> tyrannies and catastrophic failures;
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> >> and atheism is not science,
>>>> >> it's an ideology with one basic idea which in
>>>>>> the 20th century killed over 80,000,000 people in the atheist
>>>>>> regimes of Lenin, Stalin Mao and Pol Pot.. far more than any
>>>>>> religion.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > No, it isn't. Marxism-Leninism is an ideology.
>>>>
>>>> So is Atheism, as the
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism."
>>>> -Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)
>>>>
>>>> "Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism."
>>>> - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)
>>>>
>>>> What do you think Pravda, the indoctrination of children
>>>> in schools, the propaganda carried out by the League of
>>>> Militant Godless and the relentless persecution of Believers
>>>> by every agency of the Atheist State was doing.. holding
>>>> hands and singing Kumbaya at Xmas!?!!!!! pffft!!
>>>>
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Militant_Atheists
>>>>
>>>> The Atheist leadership's policies were implemented under
>>>> the Red Terror, via gulags and executions, the use of
>>>> every arm of the state for anti-religious propaganda
>>>> and the forced indoctrination of CHILDREN! B^[
>>>>
>>>> �We do not fight against believers and not even clergymen.
>>>> WE FIGHT AGAINST GOD to snatch believers from Him.�
>>>> -Vechernaia Moskva, a Soviet newspaper
>>>>
>>>> �Let us drive out the Capitalists from the earth,
>>>> and God from Heaven!� (early Soviet slogan)
>>>>
>>>> "the state established atheism as the only scientific truth."
>>>> - Daniel Peris,
>>>> "Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless"
>>>> Cornell University Press 1998 ISBN 9780801434853
>>>>
>>>> "Criticism of atheism was strictly forbidden"
>>>>
>>>> "Between 1917 and 1940, 130,000 Orthodox priests were arrested.
>>>> In 1918, the Cheka under Felix Dzerzhinsky executed over
>>>> 3000 Orthodox clergymen of all ranks.
>>>> Some were drowned in ice-holes or poured over with cold water
>>>> in winter until they turned to ice-pillars."
>>>>
>>>> - John Shelton Curtis, The Russian Church and the Soviet State
>>>> (Boston: Little Brown, 1953)
>>>>
>>>> < mindless ad hom abuse deleted as IRRELEVANT>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>> But both sides have went to far...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Exactly, the extremes of religious theocracies (fortunately
>>>>>> no longer the norm, as majority religious societies around the world
>>>>>> have evolved free, open, tolerant, progressive, rights-based secular
>>>>>> democracies (something no atheist state ever managed to do).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The extremes need to lose on both sides.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Exactly, Religious civilisations have progressively muted their
>>>>>> extremes (the modern secular democracies created by MAJORITY RELIGIOUS
>>>>>> societies are far superior to any religious society of the ancient or
>>>>>> medieval times) and the Atheist regimes have reduced their extremes by
>>>>>> collapsing catastrophically, leaving only a tiny remnant of weak,
>>>>>> ineffectual, irrational atheist drones, who are allowed to flog the
>>>>>> dead horse of Fundamentalism as a minor public service to the rest
>>>>>> of us
>>>>>> (we let them delude themselves that they are slaying dragons, when
>>>>>> fundamentalism is already defeated by the secularism the moderate
>>>>>> religious majority installed to ENSURE freedom of thought and belief,
>>>>>> including non-belief. ;-).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [See Bukakke for an example of pathological Tilting at Windmills,
>>>>>> a la Don Quixote! B^]
>>>
>>  > a frothing loon
>>
>> But fun to mock and laugh at!
>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mitchell Raemsch
>>
>>> who posts evidence that contradicts your ludicrous claims?
>>
>> No one. B^]
>>
>> Thanks for pointing that out!

---------

>>
>> The foremost atheist Philosopher of our age recently
>> launched his new book "Religion for Atheists" and
>> no atheists are interested in talking about it,
>> including all the ones who eagerly embraced Dawkin's
>> even more enthusiastic endorsement of atheist Gods he claims
>> 'came into being'(sic)
>>
>> From his book Launch:
>>
>> "A few years ago it struck me that there is a resource
>> that is a provider of Wisdom, and consolation,
>> and an ethical framework, and it's rather fascinating and
>> has dominated the mental landscape of human beings for thousands of years
>> I'm thinking, of course, of religion.
>>
>> And the problem is, I'm an atheist."
>>
>>    Yes, that's certainly a problem for any atheist!   B^D
>>
>>    or for anyone living in any of the atheist regimes they ran! B^[
>>
>> "Not just a bit of an atheist, I really am an atheist."
>>
>>    You make it sound like you expect people not to believe atheists!
>>
>>    B^D
>>
>> "So, this doesn't, in a way, make me an ideal cantidate to write
>> about religion, but at some point it did strike me that religions
>> cannot be, in the words of Christopher Hitchins, "the source of
>> the poison of everything", it's implausible, they've been around
>> for thousands of years, they reflect the collaborative intelligences
>> and sensitivities of millions of people and the idea that everything
>> to do with them is false and wicked just didn't start to stand up to
>> the scrutiny I applied to it, as I thought more about the subject.
>>
>> So, that's really the fruit of my thinking"
>>
>>
>>    That religion is really the source of so so many good and useful
>>    contributions to civilisation that Hitchin's malicious lies just
>>    don't stand up..  8^o  and as atheism is devoid of anything
>>    worthwhile itself, it needs to STEAL some of the many great ideas
>>    religion has to offer:
>>
>>
>> " my new book,Religion for Atheists is a deliberate attempt
>>   to look at a number of areas where I believe that religions
>>   have things to offer for non-believers"
>>
>> Sure,  Truth, Love, Compassion, Justice, Sincerity, Charity,
>>        Mercy, Courage, Integrity..
>>        all the virtues atheism lacks, and doesn't even understand, all
>>        the spiritual values that atheists reject completely...
>>
>>
>> # From: Budikka666 <budikka1@netscape.net>
>> # Newsgroups: alt.atheism,alt.religion,alt.religion.christian,alt.agnosticism
>> # Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:38:16 -0800 (PST)
>> # Message-ID: <bfcf3a9d-9711-449a-b126-3a1c60146182@m3g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>
>> #
>> # You can keep your spiritual values.
>> # I'll piss on them and pass on them.
>> #
>> # Budikka
>>
>>
>>
>> " ..and perhaps believers know about these things already,
>>     but for non-believers I wanted to look at that."
>>
>> "It strikes me that at the moment the world is really divided into
>> believers and non-believers and the debate has become at times very
>> fierce, there are people, some of whom live in North Oxford who
>> have suggested not only that religion is unbelievable but also
>> that it's ridiculous, and that people who believe in anything are
>> simpletons, maniacs  .. people who must be lectured at, to remove
>> the folly of their intellectual errors."
>>
>>
>>    We all know the "person from North Oxford" he's criticising for
>>    being such an arrogant, rabid demagogue with extreme views, is
>>    Richard Dawkins            B^]
>>
>> "That's not really my approach, I think such an approach is sterile,
>> I don't think one makes progress"
>>
>>    True, Dawkins extreme militancy and all the money spent on Bus
>>    ad lies to proselytise for new atheist converts never worked!
>>
>> "It doesn't strike me that this is really a productive way
>> to go forward."
>>
>>    Mate, I have been telling the dimwitted Dawkinite Drones that
>>    for YEARS now!   But they are completely blind to reason!  B^D
>>
>> " How do you live a good life outside of a religious structure?
>>
>>    Well that's silly, when the good life you want to emulate
>>    exists WITHIN that moral framework and claims that the SPIRITUAL
>>    values are what brings life to the attempts at self-transformation!
>>
>>    It's like you want the Light from a lightbulb, using only
>>    the physical MATTER, not invisible, electromagnetic ENERGY!  B^D
>>
>>    It's been tried in EVERY atheist state and failed!   B^]
>>
>>    How can these atheist 'thinkers' be so dumb?
>>
>>
>> "This is THE question facing modern society, and we haven't
>> necessarily answered it that well."
>
 > That is the question you should have asked your father

I did, he said atheists were stupid because they chose not to see
reality, ....that and the inbreeding.

 > Why

No one else would pollute the gene pool by allowing atheists to
swim in it.   B^)

 > sooo dumb

That's why atheists ahve never built a single decent democracy,
let alone the great and enduring Civilisations the Religions have 
inspired!

>
>>    You atheists have NEVER answered it, B^D  but the majority
>>    religious societies that you want to emulate clearly have!   B^]
>>
>> "I think it's a legitimate question and my book is an
>> attempt to answer that question."
>>
>>    Sure, the hilarious part is that you think atheism needs
>>    to copy religion ...because it HAS the answer already!!!!
>>
>>            BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!!
>>
>>    Just what Dawkins, Bukakke, Vurgil and all the other
>>    ex-atheist believers are trying to do!    ;-)
>>
>>    Except, THEY are copying the BELIEFs in Supernatural Beings,
>>    i.e. they are FABRICATING GODS to WORSHIP!  (Just
>>    like every atheist tyranny tried to do with political cultism ;-)
>>
>>     Whereas De Botton wants to steal the PRAXIS of religion:    B^D
>>
>> "My starting point is to say that we should learn to STEAL from
>> religions."
>>
>> BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAA!
>>
>>    Priceless!   The starting point for Atheist 'philosophy' is
>>    that having no ideas of their own the unoriginal atheists
>>    need to pinch the ideas of the, more successful, religious!
>>
>> BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAA
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "you know some people have accused me of advocating a
>> 'pick and mix'approach to religions, and I say you know what?
>> you're absolutely right, that's completely what I'm doing,
>> a pick and mix approach.
>>
>> Some people have said  'religion's are not a buffet, from which
>> you can go round choosing the best bits', and my answer is yes they are.
>> And that's precidsely what I'm doing.  So i've taken my plate,
>> and I've gone round the different faiths, and I've done precisely that."
>>
>>     -  Alain de Botton, Lanching his new Book, Religion for Atheists
>>                         The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne  19/3/2012
>>
>>
>> http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2012/03/19/3455152.htm
>>
>> ---------
>>
>> alt.atheism FAQ:
>>
>> http://altatheismfaq.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>> http://groups.google.com.au/group/alt.atheism/msg/7c0978c14fd4ed37?hl=en&dmode=source
>>
>>
>>
>>  "Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism."
>>      -Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)
>>
>>   "We must combat religion"
>>       -Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)
>>
>>  �Down with religion and long live atheism;
>>   the dissemination of atheist views is our chief task!�
>>      - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)
>>
>>  "Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism."
>>      - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)
>>
>>
>>
>>   http://www.atheistnexus.org/photo/2182797:Photo:8290?context=latest
>>
>>   http://www.atheistnexus.org/photo/2182797:Photo:8295?context=latest
>>
>>   http://www.atheistnexus.org/photo/2182797:Photo:6348?context=latest
>>
>>   http://www.atheistnexus.org/photo/2182797:Photo:17478?context=latest
>>
>>
>>  "How can you make a revolution without firing squads?"
>>      - Lenin
>>
>>   http://www.atheistnexus.org/photo/2182797:Photo:17475?context=latest
>>
>>   http://www.c96trading.com/Nagant_NKVD_300h.jpg
>>
>>  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01001/Tsar-family_1001874c.jpg
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Subject: Re: Extremism for Science and Religion.. atheism doesn't even rate
 a mention.. it's irrelevant to both! B^D
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