<<<Uh, E, I thought you were atheist, not agnostic. If atheist, God didn't do a blooming things,
since she doesn't exist. Is there a certain conflict between your intellect and your beliefs?>>>
The above is your reply to this remark of mine:
God sent free thought to save us from the consequences of the fifty-seven varieties of religious belief being applied in the political arena.
Christopher, I think you are showing the symptoms of severe irony-deficiency anemia. It was a joke, dear. The fifty-seven varieties refer to Heinz, btw. I am ashamed of you.
The rest of your post I have already SO answered in these two posts. Do read them again, I'm too tired to rewrite:
beta.siliconinvestor.com
and
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Clearly we are going around in circles, and it is surely not a circle that is going to be broken if you think that atheists not wanting the public school to teach either deism or atheism means atheists are "imposing their values on believers." If that is what you think. Maybe you think atheists want to force those who think oocytes have souls to get abortions? Atheists want to go to school and share their moral/ethical views and the rationales for them with the little children of theists each morning? Atheists want to not pay more taxes because churches pay none on their business operations? (Well, maybe that last one could use a little scrutiny!) Atheists want believers to stay out of prisons in the same numbers atheists do?
(That last one was me being provocative, don't bother to reply, I know it means little beyond that atheists are as a group the better educated, and thus less likely to resort to crime; and that the parole system favors those professing religion over atheists, surprise surprise.)
If prayer is reinstated in the public schools so other little atheist children are as mortified as I was by that experience, would you be averse to my going to public schools and reading from selected atheist texts, perhaps explicating, for the children?
In my neighborhood, Christians were at one time planning to go to all the school bus stops giving (all the) children Christian pamphlets. They called a local radio station and announced their plan. I called the station, and announced that I would be distributing excerpts from the classics of atheist thought at the same bus stops, I was sure they'd see the fairness in it.
They didn't, oddly enough. It infuriated them. But they didn't do what they had planned, either.
BTW, do you personally think atheist thought and religious thought should compete on the same footing in public schools? Should both be permitted?
P.S. I took the word "oocite" from an earlier post, one on the liberal thread; I'd never heard of it before. Thanks to the friend who just PM'd me the correct spelling! |
