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rbwinn wrote:
> On Jul 19, 10:12 pm, DanielSan <daniel...@speakeasy.net> wrote:
>> rbwinn wrote:
>>> On Jul 18, 5:46�pm, "Smiler" <Smi...@Joe.King.com> wrote:
>>>> "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:de6a2c3f-ab55-434c-aa04-d37ddd084d82@26g2000hsk.googlegroups.com...
>>>> On Jul 17, 1:08 pm, BuddyThunder <nos...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>>>>> rbwinn wrote:
>>>>>> On Jul 17, 4:11 am, The Loan Arranger <no...@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>> rbwinn wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Jul 15, 6:39?am, The Loan Arranger <no...@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> rbwinn wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Jul 14, 10:38 pm, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> So are you admitting that you have sins? ?This would be a first
>>>>>>>>>>>> for an
>>>>>>>>>>>> atheist. ?All other atheists tell me that they do not have sins
>>>>>>>>>>>> because whatever they do is not sin.
>>>>>>>>>>> I have what YOU call sins. They aren't, because the concept is
>>>>>>>>>>> meaningless. In absolute terms.
>>>>>>>>>> Right. ?Atheist Josef Stalin said the same thing when he killed 12
>>>>>>>>>> million people.
>>>>>>>>> As opposed to Adolf Hitler ("I am now as before a Catholic and will
>>>>>>>>> always remain so." - quoted in John Towland's biog).
>>>>>>>>> Not to mention several Popes, who were happy to ordain the
>>>>>>>>> indiscriminate massacres of Moslems in the name of the Cross.
>>>>>>>>> Not to mention the Christian fundamentalist GWB (and his father), who
>>>>>>>>> seems happy to go to war against the people of any Moslem country
>>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>>> has the audacity not to kow-tow to his government's wishes.
>>>>>>>>> There is no point in claiming that atheism breeds immorality, or that
>>>>>>>>> Christianity is the cure, because there are so many counter-examples
>>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>>> both cases that the only conclusion any sensible person can draw is
>>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>>> some people are good, some people are bad, and anyone can be drawn to
>>>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>>>> away from religion.
>>>>>>>>> TLA
>>>>>>>> So was this John Towland an atheist?
>>>>>>> I have no idea, and it's not relevant anyway. He just wrote a biog of
>>>>>>> Hitler.
>>>>>>>> Anyway, Hitler was a politician saying what would make him popular
>>>>>>>> with the German people. His actions in his life show that he did not
>>>>>>>> believe he would be punished for sins, much like atheists of today.
>>>>>>> ...and any psychopath with temporal lobe epilepsy or schizophrenia who
>>>>>>> believes that massacring groups or whole races is OK, because they've
>>>>>>> God on their side. However, the point that you're trying to dodge, and
>>>>>>> failing, is that as much evil is done in the name of religion, in this
>>>>>>> case Christian religion, as is done by those with none - probably more.
>>>>>>> If you don't find that an uncomfortable truth, you need to recalibrate
>>>>>>> your humanity.
>>>>>>> TLA- Hide quoted text -
>>>>>> Well, I don't really see much evidence of it. Stalin and Pol Pot were
>>>>>> both atheists. But politicians who killed large numbers of people
>>>>>> cannot compare with the numbers of people killed by abortion, which
>>>>>> was done by governments controlled by atheistic political factions.
>>>>> Your vitriol against atheists is kinda cute in a psycho sort of way.
>>>>> Where do I sign up for the genocides? I need to do my atheistic duty. Is
>>>>> it the same place Mormons get their brains removed?- Hide quoted text -
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>>>> All you have to do is vote for your pro-abortion politicians.
>>>> ==========================================
>>>> There aren't any pro-abortion politicians.
>>>> Smiler,
>>>> The godless one
>>>> a.a.# 2279- Hide quoted text -
>>>> - Show quoted text -
>>> There aren't?  
>> No.
>>
>>> What happened to them?
>> Nothing.  They just don't exist.
>>
> Sort of like Hezekiah's tunnel?

No.


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