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Atheists & Agnostics

dimbear

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15. I'm not going to hold your youth against you at all.

Reply to awoke_in_2003 (Reply #7)

Sat Jul 7, 2012, 04:35 PM

Jul 2012

Most encouraging sign for me: the letters in the Salt Lake Tribune religion section. They are just tearing Mormons up. Nothiing like that would have ever happened in Salt Lake when I was growing up there 50 years ago.

The times are changing for the better. The religious right is the last dying gasp. At least I hope so. Compared to the US, for instance, northern Europe is a humanist paradise. And we always eventually copy them, don't we?

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I'm trying Ringo. I'm trying real hard to be the shepherd. [View all] cleanhippie Jul 2012 OP

This seems to happen a lot when people are entrenched kdmorris Jul 2012 #1

We're living through a part of time when there are changes and upheavals going on. dimbear Jul 2012 #2

Great point, although I see it as the same struggle. cleanhippie Jul 2012 #3

For sure. dimbear Jul 2012 #4

I think the sticking up for ourselves is what upsets so many EvolveOrConvolve Jul 2012 #5

Or male priviledge, for that matter. Evoman Jul 2012 #9

I have to admit that I've been fairly shocked at how entrenched the Christian privilege is... eqfan592 Jul 2012 #11

They dislike individual atheist, and they expand that dislike to the whole group Evoman Jul 2012 #14

I am 44... awoke_in_2003 Jul 2012 #7

They do seem to be getting a "stronger stranglehold," as you say. eqfan592 Jul 2012 #10

I hope you are right... awoke_in_2003 Jul 2012 #13

I'm not going to hold your youth against you at all. dimbear Jul 2012 #15

"And we always eventually copy them, don't we?"... awoke_in_2003 Jul 2012 #16

I've found that being nice doesn't work EvolveOrConvolve Jul 2012 #6

You suprised they are full of shit? Evoman Jul 2012 #8

I'm thinking that an OP on the Eucharist is in order. Warren Stupidity Jul 2012 #12

The only common ground I have with fundies is what we'll both be buried under nt Taverner Jul 2012 #17