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Donald Ian Rankin

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9. Really? Let me introduce myself.

Reply to ladjf (Reply #6)

Thu Apr 24, 2014, 01:02 PM

Apr 2014

I'm an atheist, and I think that the overreach of religion into civil society means that it needs to be militantly* opposed.

Richard Dawkins is an excellent (self-proclaimed) spokesman for militant atheism.

*"Militant" of course being idiomatic, not literal.

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Really? Let me introduce myself. Donald Ian Rankin Apr 2014 #9

I interpreted the word "militant" to literally mean militant. ladjf Apr 2014 #14

I disagree - I think that Richard Dawkins is great, and he does so proudly. N.T. Donald Ian Rankin Apr 2014 #15

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