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msongs
(73,754 posts)Kurmudgeon
(1,751 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)These people are less Christian than I am and I never claimed to be one.
Tikki
(15,140 posts)chill out...
Atheist: it just means I don't believe in God....
Tikki
RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)How exactly does this affect them?? I'm Jewish. I could care less what religion people are. If you believe in a toad - so be it. I don't see how that changes the way I believe in God.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)Tikki
(15,140 posts)Tikki
eShirl
(20,259 posts)It evokes a deep inner discomfort (terror/hatred/revulsion) in response to which they reflexively lash out at the perceived source to try and make it go away.
Kurmudgeon
(1,751 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,848 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,848 posts)I find this:

It's still hard to tell. It's ironically funny as shit on the one hand. But perfectly believable fundamentalist thinking on the other.
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)Where is her white hood?
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,848 posts)she does have the right attitude for it.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)enlightenment
(8,830 posts)She has a second post on there that clarifies what she thinks should happen to atheists.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,848 posts)enlightenment
(8,830 posts)when I posted my reply to you - cross-posted, as it were!
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,848 posts)look for the goodness in people and tend to give the benefit of the doubt
provis99
(13,062 posts)After all, look at all the pagan gods they didn't believe in...
LeftinOH
(5,648 posts)BeyondGeography
(41,101 posts)MineralMan
(151,269 posts)Morons abound. I see that Fox deleted all of those comments. They live on, though.
mysuzuki2
(3,580 posts)flakey_foont
(3,394 posts)but, this mentality is every bit as bad.
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. "
quote from Stephen Weinberg
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)Michael Perri:
these people are fing scum of the earth. can we start killing them now? few groups are filled with more hatred than atheists.
I'd say all he needs to do is look in a mirror to find a group 'filled with more hatred'.
Nasty, nasty stuff. Why does it always have to be about killing people? Obviously, most of the posters are pretty pastel, but wouldn't you think that their belief system would prevent them from entertaining such thoughts?
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Stop in for a quick chat.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)the last 2000 years. Not that it makes it any less repellent and despicable.
Those are some seriously fucked-up idjit asshats.
The Doctor.
(17,266 posts)Holy shit, I think she's an operative. I shit you not, I remember seeing her post somewhere else and it's the same message!
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)An operative for sure.
The Doctor.
(17,266 posts)Jesus Christ would personally slap the shit out of these people.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)That's a pretty vague term.
The Doctor.
(17,266 posts)are simulacrums, fakes... created to give real people the sense that such vicious hatred is 'normal and acceptable'. Someone is, I believe, stirring up the psychologically stunted for some larger purpose.
And I have a fair idea of what that purpose might be.
chrisa
(4,524 posts)Brickbat
(19,339 posts)embarrass the "real" Sindy Clock, it looks pretty fake.
sinkingfeeling
(57,835 posts)his name back.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Men Openly Advocate Killing Persons on FOX News Facebook Page
Women Openly Advocate Killing Persons on FOX News Facebook Page
Graduates Openly Advocate Killing Persons on FOX News Facebook Page
Bearded Men Advocate Killing Persons on FOX News Facebook Page
Jacketed Men Openly Advocate Killing Persons on FOX News Facebook Page
Women of Color Openly Advocate Killing Persons on FOX News Facebook Page
Truck Drivers Openly Advocate Killing Persons on FOX News Facebook Page
But all those subject lines would probably get the thread locked.
sinkingfeeling
(57,835 posts)to the lawsuit to prevent a cross at the new World Trade Center.
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)It has a familiar ring to it.
bowens43
(16,064 posts)what a bunch of idiots.
Justice wanted
(2,657 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Isn't that the standard excuse?
Quantess
(27,630 posts)I don't think so.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)Poor saps.