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Sam Harris would rather get rid of religion rather than rape.

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Re: Sam Harris would rather get rid of religion rather than rape.

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Lets ask Johnson, who has a bad case of ADD (or might I be offending people that do have ADD?)

Has Johnson ever been raped?
Who says he'd prefer to be raped rather than have religion exist in our world?
I suspect he'd be willing to take one for the team here.


This might be one of those new atheist arguments that are too techincal for theists to understand.


What else can we prefer rape over just to be inflammatory?
If the prophet can say it so can I.
I hope you'll all show your support.
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Re: Sam Harris would rather get rid of religion rather than rape.

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Dexter wrote:
ant wrote:
Have you ever been raped, Dexter? I think youd like it better than religion.
Have you ever been murdered, as per religious instructions?

Are all relgious people raping because theyve received religious instructions?

Are all men rapists or potential rapists?

Go ahead, Strawman. Entertain me.
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Re: Sam Harris would rather get rid of religion rather than rape.

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wait, though.

Dexter, answer the question. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN RAPED>!?

If not then you need not ever think you have anything to say on the subject.
That's why Ant can dismiss the genocide mentioned in my post. He's BEEN through genocide so it's ok for him to be insensitive to it.

Is it cherry picking when the bucket is so full?

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Re: Sam Harris would rather get rid of religion rather than rape.

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lets see....

nope, looking at my post I don't think I said I would prefer to be raped...
No. It's not in there. But how can that be?

Ant attributed a thought to me and it turns out I didn't say the thing he's pushing off on me?
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Re: Sam Harris would rather get rid of religion rather than rape.

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Hey Ant, look!

I took the "science flies you to the moon, religion flies you into buildings" quote out of my signature.
You've finally SHAMED me into removing it from my signature and now i'm desperately trying to distance myself from that distasteful statement!
But then, I did just write it here in this post...

I suggest you make a bookmark so that you can refer people to this very post, where I point out that I had that in my signature before this, as evidence of my intolerance.

Actually, I was reading through some old threads and found some quotes I liked better.
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Re: Sam Harris would rather get rid of religion rather than rape.

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ant wrote:Sam Harris was "just being inflammatory" but he really didn't mean what he said about preferring rape over religion. After all, he's got to get us to make the comparison for ourselves.
Sam Harris is commenting on religion's bad side as a mind experiment, though I agree that this is not a very good way to frame it. Religion itself cannot be blamed entirely, although clearly it has been used to justify genocide and rape, all in God's name or Allah's name or whatever. Here's a recent article about ISIS' theology of rape and sex slavery.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/world ... -rape.html
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Right there, did you see that everyone? In this very quote!

Ant: Are all relgious people raping because theyve received religious instructions?

Are all men rapists or potential rapists?

Go ahead, Strawman. Entertain me.
Ant just said he would rather have his face eaten by piranhas than get rid of rape!
He doesn't care about people who have had their faces eaten by piranhas.
Ant, have YOU ever had your face eaten by piranhas?

That's very insensitive.

(johnson1010 is a recent graduate from the "Ant school of quote rephrasing")
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The art of clarifying what someone "intended" to say. So that it's more accurate, and the flaws are displayed. That's what he does. All in the name of clarity. :kap:
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Sam Harris' minions have been turned loss to drag down those who question his insensitive sexist abhorrent comments that could possibly (ya think??!!) offend women, some of which perhaps have been raped.
But the rationale of the prophet Harris, and his blood thirsty minions can not see why some people would choose Religion over rape any ol day of the year!

The Prophet has also considered seriously a preemptive nuclear strike on some Islamic nations.

Let's hear the minions strawman that.
Looking forward to all the red herrings as well.
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