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In reply to the discussion: Conservatives Complain Sam Is Treated Better For Being Gay Than Tebow Was For Being A Christian [View all]FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)33. Why should gays accept them?
Richard Dawkins to atheist rally: 'Show contempt' for faith
Mar 24, 2012
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/2012/03/-atheists-richard-dawkins-reason-rally/1
About 20,000 atheists gathered within shouting distance of the Washington Monument on Saturday for a Reason Rally hell-bent on damning religion and mocking beliefs.
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Then Dawkins got to the part where he calls on the crowd not only to challenge religious people but to "ridicule and show contempt" for their doctrines and sacraments, including the Eucharist, which Catholics believe becomes the body of Christ during Mass.
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Outrage was the parlance of the day, however, for many speakers, including David Silverman, Reason Rally organizer and American Atheists president.
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Silverman may have gone a bit further in his rhetoric than he intended. In a thundering call for "zero tolerance" for anyone who disagrees with or insults atheism, Silverman proclaimed, "Stand your ground!"
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The path to peace, understanding, and inclusiveness is through anger, mocking and obscene insults. Less mamby pamby, more red faced rage. When someone slaps your face, don't turn the other cheek: hit them with a barrage of verbal two by fours!
When Christians start to realize that sky daddy/virgin baby worship is a losing proposition, that they are being ridiculed by their intellectual superiors, they will either convert to Atheism, or at least they will learn to shut up, cower and hide their religion. Either way, it is a victory for free thought.
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Conservatives Complain Sam Is Treated Better For Being Gay Than Tebow Was For Being A Christian [View all]
DonViejo
May 2014
OP
If Sam whips out a rainbow flag in the endzone and waves it around after every touchdown
Arugula Latte
May 2014
#3
Tebow was/is ridiculed because he is not talented. Sam is being "treated better" because he
PeaceNikki
May 2014
#6
Both Tebow and Sam have very good qualities often not seen in men their age.
NCTraveler
May 2014
#18
Sam Is Treated Better? tebow was a mediocre QB talent who was drafted in first freakin' round.
KG
May 2014
#25