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Re: Another challenge to atheists from The Week!

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ant wrote: Fcking weak bullshit from you, George.
I can see many of Camacho's positive qualities. You can't.

I win!
puhlease.
Remember, I was the first person to have the honor of being cursed at by you, before you went back to try and erase the evidence of your primeval outburst.

I can see positive qualities while note ignoring the bigotry that's on the flip side.
That takes gut-busting honesty.
Some people are intellectually gutless.
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Re: Another challenge to atheists from The Week!

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geo wrote:
ant wrote: Fcking weak bullshit from you, George.
I can see many of Camacho's positive qualities. You can't.

I win!
puhlease.
Remember, I was the first person to have the honor of being cursed at by you, before you went back to try and erase the evidence of your primeval outburst.

I can see positive qualities while note ignoring the bigotry that's on the flip side.
That takes gut-busting honesty.
Some people are intellectually gutless.
My point has always been that people are much more than their religion affiliation (or how Ant chooses to categorize them). Your bigotry is 100 times worse than Camacho's. You think Camacho is spouting theist hate wherever he is? I'd bet he's got more interesting things to do. Yet, you're here spewing anti atheist hate all the time. Get a hobby, dude!
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You have no idea what you're talking about.

My point is that you've effectively ignored all his patronizing posts about religious people.
That's not difficult to see if you use the search function.
Youre claiming my bigotry is worse than his is proof of your willfulness to totally ignore his.

I prefaced many of my posts, clarifying that I did not believe ALL A-theists are moronic bigots. Did he ever do the same? Prove me wrong here. If you do, I stand corrected.
You've ignored every post where I clarified I did not mean all atheists.

Seriously, you can lie to me but stop lying to yourself here. It's laughable. Really, it is. Stop, please.

Since the atheist core of BT loves to cherry pick, here's something for you:

http://irmo.patch.com/groups/police-and ... hoto-first


Is this something that atheists are not capable of?

Something similar also happened at a nearby church where I live.
It didn't make the news and I'm sorry I didn't take a picture for you to see. Hence, you can continue to call me a liar.
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Cherry picking!
Why not?! Yorky the troll does it. Why can't I?!

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/f ... -1.1752226


Can you recommend a good atheist attorney for this man who's non belief is perhaps being grossly misunderstood here?
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Atheism simply means "non belief"
True atheism is not to be held accountable for crimes committed in the name of atheism.

Post World War Two[edit]
Across Eastern Europe following World War Two, the parts of Nazi Germany and its allies and conquered states that had been overrun by the Soviet Red Army, along with Yugoslavia, became one-party Communist states, which, like the Soviet Union, were antipathetic to religion. Persecutions of religious leaders followed.[77][78] The Soviet Union ended its truce against the Russian Orthodox Church, and extended its persecutions to the newly Communist Eastern block: "In Poland, Hungary, Lithuania and other Eastern European countries, Catholic leaders who were unwilling to be silent were denounced, publicly humiliated or imprisoned by the Communists. Leaders of the national Orthodox Churches in Romania and Bulgaria had to be cautious and submissive", wrote Blainey.[46]

Albania under Enver Hoxha became, in 1967, the first (and to date only) formally declared atheist state,[79] going far beyond what most other countries had attempted – completely prohibiting religious observance, and systematically repressing and persecuting adherents. The right to religious practice was restored in the fall of communism in 1991. In 1967, Enver Hoxha's regime conducted a campaign to extinguish religious life in Albania; by year's end over two thousand religious buildings were closed or converted to other uses, and religious leaders were imprisoned and executed. Albania was declared to be the world's first atheist country by its leaders, and Article 37 of the Albanian constitution of 1976 stated that "The State recognises no religion, and supports and carries out atheistic propaganda in order to implant a scientific materialistic world outlook in people."[80][81]
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Non believers are obviously harmless because they are not irrational believers in Thor, Zeus, Isis, Jesus, etc. etc.
Albania didn't know what true atheism is. Therefore, atheism is not to blame. Neither is lack of belief to be blamed here.
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Did Hoxha give up power in the name of scientific materialism? No? Gee, maybe any dictatorial regime wants to get rid of any competing institutions. Ever think of that? You don't need to know any Albanian history to know the obvious.

Just like Stalin killed millions in the name of non-belief, right?

This is the unthinking theist's view of history, watch every debater bring it up as their brilliant "gotcha" moment.

Keep on trollin...
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Dexter wrote:Did Hoxha give up power in the name of scientific materialism? No? Gee, maybe any dictatorial regime wants to get rid of any competing institutions. Ever think of that? You don't need to know any Albanian history to know the obvious.

Just like Stalin killed millions in the name of non-belief, right?

This is the unthinking theist's view of history, watch every debater bring it up as their brilliant "gotcha" moment.

Keep on trollin...

Albania declared itself an Atheistic state, and as a result proceeded to marginalize and murder theists.

If the concept is too difficult for you to understand then just STFU.

Ps.

Why is your posting of links to ridicule religion NOT trolling, whereas my doing so IS?

You make me laugh.
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Dexter wrote:Did Hoxha give up power in the name of scientific materialism? No? Gee, maybe any dictatorial regime wants to get rid of any competing institutions. Ever think of that? You don't need to know any Albanian history to know the obvious.

Just like Stalin killed millions in the name of non-belief, right?

This is the unthinking theist's view of history, watch every debater bring it up as their brilliant "gotcha" moment.

Keep on trollin...

Albania declared itself an Atheistic state, and as a result proceeded to marginalize and murder theists.

If the concept is too difficult for you to understand then just STFU.
Oh my bad, there was a declaration of atheism. Let me go through the rhetoric of other murderous dictators to see their true intentions and how misunderstood they were.

It's trolling because it's just painfully dumb. You should take it as a compliment, because maybe that means you don't actually believe these arguments.
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ant wrote:
Dexter wrote:Did Hoxha give up power in the name of scientific materialism? No? Gee, maybe any dictatorial regime wants to get rid of any competing institutions. Ever think of that? You don't need to know any Albanian history to know the obvious.

Just like Stalin killed millions in the name of non-belief, right?

This is the unthinking theist's view of history, watch every debater bring it up as their brilliant "gotcha" moment.

Keep on trollin...

Albania declared itself an Atheistic state, and as a result proceeded to marginalize and murder theists.

If the concept is too difficult for you to understand then just STFU.
Oh my bad, there was a declaration of atheism. Let me go through the rhetoric of other murderous dictators to see their true intentions and how misunderstood they were.

It's trolling because it's just painfully dumb. You should take it as a compliment, because maybe that means you don't actually believe these arguments.
What's vulgar and stupid of you is that you think a declaration of non belief justifies or exonerates every claim or act from the moment of claimed disbelief.

It's utterly balless to generally hold religion accountable for every crime committed by the church in the past when the church was also the governing body with power and political motives in play at the time.

Additionally, only a dullard would incessantly bleet the ol absence of evidence fallacy.

Guess which balless dullard has done all the above?
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What's vulgar and stupid of you is that you think a declaration of non belief justifies or exonerates every claim or act from the moment of claimed disbelief.
You literally can't read or understand an argument.
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