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To: koan who wrote (11428)	2/19/2017 3:13:43 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362468

" to add insult to injury," you just called Mormons crazy. To add injury to insult, my "crazy religion" requires that I get my foreskin cut off at the age of 8 days. It's not a problem at that age, but it is when somebody is 25 YO and converting to Judaism..

To: koan who wrote (11428)	2/19/2017 3:32:53 AM
From: Dracin72	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362468

<<While we are on the subject, do you know who the most prejudiced people are in the United States? It isn't the gays, and it isn't the Blacks I am curious. Have you given your theory to any of your black friends? That atheists are more prejudiced or have suffered more then blacks in this country? It is also curious that you feel a group of crazy people in your mind who feel somehow that their time on earth could cause them to be judged in the afterlife would be fearful of allowing people to govern who believe that nothing they do in the hear and now has consequences. Reading between the lines clearly you lean towards some animosity towards western christian faiths there are many more faiths then just those. As for food for thought, science still has not disproven the existence of a creator, if it had there would be far less faithful. Are religions flawed or manipulated by man, obviously. Are you a happy person? You seem very bothered often that perhaps you have the only viewpoint on life that could be correct and somehow frustrated that the rest of the world can't see it your way.

To: koan who wrote (11428)	2/19/2017 2:33:20 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362468

do you know who the most prejudiced people are in the United States? I knew what you meant from context but look again at what you wrote. <g> it is we atheists The new study also attempts to find out why atheists are so reviled by what its authors call “dominant group members” — aka religious Americans. The findings pinpoint three things: Religious Americans associate atheists with “criminality,” materialism, and “a lack of accountability.” The study has more bad news for atheists — despite a decade of organized effort from groups such as American Atheists, the Secular Coalition for America, and Openly Secular to normalize nonbelief, Americans are not buying it — religious belief remains a measure of trustworthiness and belonging, the study found. sojo.net WRT accountability, to me the notion that people need a powerful deity looking over their shoulders to do the right thing says more about the believer than the atheist. Anyone who can't imagine being trustworthy without the celestial carrot/stick, is probably not, at his core, a good person.