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Moonwalk

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5. LOL! One step at a time, my friend. It's always best to start with the hole that an advocate...
Thu Nov 29, 2012, 02:12 PM
Nov 2012

...digs himself. And this is a pretty stupid one. If a religion is a philosophy, then either my John Locke fan club gets to wiggle out of paying property taxes or the church down the street has to start paying up because, apparently, we're one-in-the-same (according to O'Reilly). Philosophy classes should get the same perks as churches, philosophy teachers the same perks as preachers, and days honoring philosophers should get the same respect and regard as religious holidays. I'm looking forward to this. I can't wait for Nietzsche holy week--when the philosophy of god being dead meets the Christian philosophy of god being alive! Don't stare into that abyss, true believers!

I do wonder what argumentative angle O'Reilly thought he'd gain by defining Christianity as a philosophy

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