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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 09/15/2008 : 04:49:00
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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LE668892.htm
Off with their heads, but just remember WE are the real threat, not the religious types.
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2008 : 05:44:55 [Permalink]
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Yeah. And what's frightening is that when you read stuff from the Christian fundamentalist literature or websites, or hear them on the radio, this is their mentality. They aren't calling for anyone's heads, but there is a real loathing and contempt for anyone who doesn't believe what they do.
And these guys are the ones in power. They like to talk about how they're the minority being persecuted by Hollywood and secularists and whatnot, but that's all just a sham so they can raise more money. The reality is that these guys are in the majority and their views are the dominant ones out there. And if we aren't careful, well, who knows what could happen?? |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2008 : 08:30:40 [Permalink]
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Yeah; Saudi Arabia is crazy. They are the Taliban's big brother. The one that got oil and that we'll never touch.
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13476 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2008 : 09:01:27 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Simon
Women are also not allowed to drive there.
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Hmmmm. Perhaps some of those Saudi's drove in Southern California at one time in their life...
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
Genetic Literacy Project |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2008 : 09:28:23 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Originally posted by Simon
Women are also not allowed to drive there.
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Hmmmm. Perhaps some of those Saudi's drove in Southern California at one time in their life...
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2008 : 12:50:47 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ricky
By labeling them as "Sorcerers," does that mean that they believe the horoscope nuts actually have real powers?
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In the shell of a horoscope nut; yeh.
But then, they also believe in an only moderatly differing version of the Big Mojo Aloft as the Judeao-Christians, many (most?) of whom also dig witchcraft, demon possesion and other such nonsense.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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eXtreme skepticism!
