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Atheists & Agnostics

dimbear

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1. As long as the Christians continue to write history unchallenged, they'll be the sole heroes.

Reply to Phillip McCleod (Original post)

Sat Apr 6, 2013, 05:39 PM

Apr 2013

BTW, there was a similar hubbub between the loudmouth atheists and the pacific Christians within the abolitionist movement in the 1840s-1850s. The loudmouth atheists were shouted down, mostly, and muzzled.

Too mouthy.

Completely forgotten today.

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Lessons from Douglass & Stanton (Part I) .. 'Where all is plain there is nothing to be argued.' [View all] Phillip McCleod Apr 2013 OP

As long as the Christians continue to write history unchallenged, they'll be the sole heroes. dimbear Apr 2013 #1

i thought i had come across something to that effect along the way. Phillip McCleod Apr 2013 #2

It is a lucky thing that history has minority reports. It's the separating out the right one that dimbear Apr 2013 #3