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In reply to the discussion: Do you agree, or disagree, with this statement? [View all]Rob H.
(5,788 posts)11. I think that statement, not to put too fine a point on it, is 100% horseshit
Exhibit A that flies in the face of the idea that atheist men do more harm to women than religious men: The Southern Baptist Convention. Women are to be subservient to men, can't be pastors, and are not to teach or hold positions of authority over men. Southern Baptist men's "religious morals" don't prevent them from treating women as their inferiors, and the SBC endorses that kind of behavior.
Edited to add: There was also a study done within the last few years that showed that divorce rates were highest among religious people in red states. The group with lowest rates of divorce? ATHEISTS!
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I think there's a lot of stealth religious fundamentalism behind a lot of agendas.
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2012
#3
Anyone who knows a little history knows that is not true. Look at the chief opponents of women's
dimbear
Aug 2012
#2
It's the old saw about how Religious beliefs keep all that nasty stuff 'in check'
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2012
#7
Yeah, sort of like the kneejerking defensiveness to the work of Judith "Gays caused the Holocaust"
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2012
#22
And sometimes complicated things are easier to understand if one is willing to spot
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2012
#27
"Atheists are less moral because they dont have religion to fix their souls"
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2012
#30
Why don't you give them the link to the HoF thread, while you're at it?
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2012
#20
I could have, but actually I was trying to get a read on the material without specifically
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2012
#28
Huh? I haven't made anything about her. And yet you, here, are trying to make it about ME.
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2012
#46
No, I think it's claiming that religion puts a limit on how bad misogyny can get
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2012
#47
It's got a whole host of assumptions that are, as they say, "problematic"
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2012
#48