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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dracin72 who wrote (11432)	2/19/2017 3:51:00 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362592

You're missing an important variable when talking about prejudice comparing atheists to African-Americans or any minority for that matter. The problem that the African-American has is that they can't hide. We atheists can hide simply by keeping our mouth shut. It is easy for us to pass for normal which is what we've all been doing throughout history. Hell, most of us are still in the closet. I am old now and feel I need to take one for the team as the Christians can't torture me for too long-lol. And if you think they don't torture people have a conversation with a gay person. They have a very high suicide rate because of the shame they feel because of Christians insisting they are sexual deviants! We liberals don't ever hassle them, it is the "good people"! Even the monolithic Catholic church is still hassling the gays in 2017. Mark Twain wrote his best stuff against the Christian church but was so scared that he would not let his daughter published it until after he was dead. Charles Darwin waited 20 years to release his on the origin of species, because of his fear of the church. If you could see atheists, like you see African-Americans, we would be beneath them. You want logical proof? , we just had a black president, and you know damn well were not gonna be having an atheist president! << 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?

To: Dracin72 who wrote (11432)	2/19/2017 4:03:14 AM
From: koan	Respond to of 362592

I am a happy person, because I have had an easy life compared to most and I am free of the bonds of illusion. I was born in California, in the 40s, white with blonde hair, strong and healthy. And even though we did not have much money, when I went to get a job they always hired me first because I could pass for normal. All I had to do my entire life was keep my mouth shut, and I knew when I needed to do that. Of course the only thing I was ever guilty of, was thinking. I'm a really nice guy and never hurt a soul in my life, but when you try to tell a Christian that they're wrong they go berserk and lay a big guilt trip on you. That's if they're not calling you a witch and piling a bunch of wood around you to Burn you at the stake. Maybe you need to spend some time reading the history of the Christian church. I have, have you? It is horrible what Christians did to people for hundreds of years during the Middle Ages, a time that they called the dark ages. You are aware the Christian church tortured people for hundreds of year simply for not believing their bullshit? Google the Spanish Inquisition! When people started printing and reading books again, and they started getting rid of religion, they call that the age of Enlightenment. In fact when the ancient Greeks developed the alphabet and started printing books and reading, they put their myths away as well. If we are going to survive as a species on this planet, we need to put childish thoughts away and face reality head on. And we might want to start with global warming because that's the craziest thing in the world that you have a huge number of people that don't believe in it when virtually every climate scientist on earth is yelling a warning at the top of their lungs, and once again that constitutes a large number of Christians who don't believe it. And isn't it interesting that the Christians are Donald Trump's base. Or that the most racist part of the entire country is also the heart of Christianity the deep South. If you take time to connect all these dots, maybe you'll see what I'm talking about. You don't seem to understand that my anger is not because I have had a hard time, it is because I have seen how hard it has been on others. You know you can be angry if you see a person beating a dog with a stick, or worse a person, and that is a healthy reaction. If more people in the South had been angry about the racism and the segregation, the African-American might not have been tortured for over 100 years after the end of slavery. There is some more food for thought.