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To: Greg or e who wrote (38784)	7/7/2013 12:25:12 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

"I believe the original discussion was the inability of atheist to provide a justification for morality. click back on "who wrote" No, you don't. Otherwise, you would have referenced a post that either of us had made and that the other had responded to. Instead you referenced a post you made to 2MAR$, to which I did not respond. So thank you for once again misrepresenting the facts and evading the discussion. Message 28986704 Atheists (of course) have the very best justifications for morality: We utilize the experience and wisdom of the greatest thinkers throughout history together with the accumulated experience and learning of the whole of mankind. In doing so, we have abolished many of the immoral edicts of Christianity such as no religious freedom and to free speech or even free thought. We have stripped Christians of their Chosen People status in Government and society and have insisted they give up their instruments of torture and restrict their special elected status to their own headspace. We will have have none of that nonsense anymore, thank you! Contrast this with the Christian justification, which is reliance on the primitive ideas formulated by pre-scientific tribesmen in the Age of Ignorance--when tribesmen were more savage than human. Where they buried their dung and boasted of genocide and rape. When even a wheel was a mystery, and where disease was caused by demons and cured by superstitious magic of the most barbaric and infantile sort. Yes, everyone justifies their morality in a different way-some through Reason and some through Superstition. But society runs under the former so if you are going to commit genocide or rape or kill someone for believing in a different superstition--then you are going to pay a price, young man...