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Letter to the editor" Religion Is the Enemy " (really severe barf alert)
Lavender ^ | 19/19/01 | Pierre Tardif

Posted on 11/01/2001 4:41:25 AM PST by Valin

Organized religion epitomizes the biggest crime against humanity. It has created divisiveness and killed countless beings. As we speak, another young generation is being indoctrinated everywhere, including at home.

Since the world was believed to be flat, we have accumulated enough evidence to show that supernatural scorekeepers like gods are extremely unlikely to exist. Yet, our nation is sadly the most religious of all industrialized countries.

We infest our children with propaganda inspired by Bibles and Korans. Because those texts are filled with contradictions, one's interpretation can justify any action.

Osama bin Laden was born knowing nothing about Allah. As he grew up in Saudi Arabia, he and his peers assimilated the Muslim faith. Fortunately, most remained moderate, but Bin Laden came to feel so strongly about his deity, he joyfully orchestrated faith-based attacks on the United States.

I say: Enough have innocently suffered or perished. The time has come to eradicate religion. Now isn't this worthy of a worldwide coalition? Let reason prevail.

Stop praying. Start thinking. Trust yourself. Kick the fairy tales out of your head. Imagine no religion.
Pierre Tardif


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Now I'm not saying that someone should go to their website and respond to this piece of garbage,but if you click on source you can get there.
1 posted on 11/01/2001 4:41:25 AM PST by Valin
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To: Valin
Do you read that site often? Just kidding.
2 posted on 11/01/2001 4:56:17 AM PST by Rodney King
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To: Valin
Yet, our nation is sadly the most religious of all industrialized countries.

It is also the country everyone wants to emulate.

3 posted on 11/01/2001 4:58:45 AM PST by A Ruckus of Dogs
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To: Valin
Now I'm not saying that someone should go to their website and respond to this piece of garbage

Oh, now there's a well crafted refutation.

4 posted on 11/01/2001 5:05:10 AM PST by Da_Shrimp
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To: Valin
Since the world was believed to be flat, we have accumulated enough evidence to show that supernatural scorekeepers like gods are extremely unlikely to exist.

Really? We have evidence that God doesn't exist?

Please, show us how smart you really are by presenting such evidence

Hard scientific evidence.

Drum roll please!!!

5 posted on 11/01/2001 5:13:05 AM PST by JZoback
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To: Valin
The time has come to eradicate religion. Now isn't this worthy of a worldwide coalition? Let reason prevail.

Wow, a calling for a worldwide Jihad for the faith of Reason.

6 posted on 11/01/2001 5:15:42 AM PST by JZoback
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To: Valin
Don't refute him; pray for him. Eventually he'll refute himself.
7 posted on 11/01/2001 5:16:01 AM PST by UncleWes
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To: Valin
A publication called LAVENDER? Click on the source and check out their 'demographic' section. 6% of their subscribers are heterosexual. Of course, anyone who writes for LAVENDER magazine is not going to have any ulterior motive in blaming all the evils of the world on God and religion. God tells them what they are doing is wrong---so, get rid of God. (LAVENDER---I can't get over the name! LOL!)
8 posted on 11/01/2001 5:22:59 AM PST by wimpycat
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To: JZoback
Really? We have evidence that God doesn't exist?

Please, show us how smart you really are by presenting such evidence

Hard scientific evidence.

Drum roll please!!!

Actually, the universe was created and is maintained by a supernatural computer belonging to the Lenks. They create many universes with their computers, and this is only one of them.

You probably do not believe in the Lenks, but the question is, do we have evidence that Lenks don't exist?

Please, show us how smart you really are by presenting such evidence.

Hard scientific evidence.

Drum roll please!!!

Well then, by your reasoning, I guess that proves the Lenks exist, huh?

Hank

9 posted on 11/01/2001 5:24:14 AM PST by Hank Kerchief
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To: Valin
Unfortunately, the effort of so-called Christians to demonize all Muslims has only worsened the problem. If you demonize others for the sins of a few, expect to be demonized yourself.
10 posted on 11/01/2001 5:29:02 AM PST by Austin Willard Wright
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To: Valin
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11 posted on 11/01/2001 5:29:26 AM PST by wimpycat
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To: Valin
We need look no further than Soviet Russia and Communist China to know what this guy's atheist paradise would look like. Atheistic regimes are responsible for 100 million murders in the past century alone.
12 posted on 11/01/2001 5:31:08 AM PST by FormerLib
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To: Hank Kerchief
The Lenks? You are crazy. Every reasoned person knows that we are nothing more than characters in someone's Sims game.
13 posted on 11/01/2001 5:56:40 AM PST by Phantom Lord
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To: FormerLib
We need look no further than Soviet Russia and Communist China to know what this guy's atheist paradise would look like. Atheistic regimes are responsible for 100 million murders in the past century alone.

So you think atheism is the cause of these murderous regimes? You don't think totalitarianism had anything to do with it? I assume, therefore, an Islamic totalitarian state would be benevolent, because it would not atheistic. Is that your view?

Unfortunately, your kind of argument tends to prove the premise that the religious tend to miss the facts.

Hank

14 posted on 11/01/2001 5:58:03 AM PST by Hank Kerchief
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To: FormerLib
I smell a response needing sending and publishing.
15 posted on 11/01/2001 5:58:11 AM PST by Phantom Lord
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To: Hank Kerchief; FormerLib
I got from FormerLib's comments that the elimination of religion will NOT produce what the letter writer is seeking, not that the lack of religion causes the killing of millions. But he might have said what you got out of it.
16 posted on 11/01/2001 6:00:32 AM PST by Phantom Lord
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To: Hank Kerchief
Here is the problem- the writer of the article was asserting that science has reduced the probability of God existing. Science follows the philosophy of Empiricism, which asserts that material evidence is the starting point in proving claims. The writing was claiming, with his statement, that such evidence was in science's possession by making his claim. Thus, the person you faulted in your response for demanding the writer to prove a negative (which is impossible), was instead pointing out the error of the argument of one who CLAIMED that such evidence did in fact exist.
17 posted on 11/01/2001 6:03:43 AM PST by MWS
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To: wimpycat
Wow. How were you able to stay at that site long enough to find this without vomiting? I think everyone who says that these people are "just like everyone else" should have to read this kind of classified....
18 posted on 11/01/2001 6:05:02 AM PST by JenB
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To: Hank Kerchief
Unfortunately, your kind of argument tends to prove the premise that the religious tend to miss the facts.

The point he was trying to make doesn't miss the facts at all. We're talking murderous regimes here. If cruelty, oppression and murder occur under atheistic regimes (USSR, Nazi Germany, Cuba, Romania, China, Vietnam, etc.) as well barbarities committed in the name of religion, then religion can't be the cause of man's inhumanity to man. It has to be something else, don't you think? If you get the same results (inhumanity) using different variables (religion vs. atheistic regimes) then the variables are not what produces the result. Cruelty is perpetrated by cruel people, whether they use religion, communism or some other ideology as the vehicle.

Christianity brought to the rest of the world the idea that ALL human beings have value, simply because they exist.

19 posted on 11/01/2001 6:12:52 AM PST by wimpycat
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To: JenB
Wow. How were you able to stay at that site long enough to find this without vomiting?

I used to gross my friends out by showing them worms and bugs when I was a child.

20 posted on 11/01/2001 6:14:15 AM PST by wimpycat
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