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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 06:23 PM Original message |
Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions |
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LaurenG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 06:28 PM Response to Original message |
1. We're living it - the religious wars will always be until all people |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
2. Fly a place into a building, |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 06:30 PM Response to Original message |
3. What was Pol Pot's conviction? nt |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 06:34 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Marxism had become religion |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 06:38 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Do you have a link regarding "Angkha", my google search revealed nothing religious. nt |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 06:48 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. "Angka. Who is Angka? What is Angka? Where is Angka? Definition of Angka. Meaning of Angka" |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 06:52 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Interesting link, I am going to reserve judgement until ... |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-17-09 01:46 AM Response to Reply #11 |
35. Angka was the name of the ruling body, meaning nothing more than "The Organization." |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 06:34 PM Response to Original message |
4. A nice, banal, catch-all sop to atheists' least discriminating prejudices. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 06:35 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Blaise Pascal would own up to that |
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 06:38 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Is that Pascal... |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 10:33 PM Response to Reply #8 |
22. His wager would be interesting if there was only one religion. nt |
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ChadwickHenryWard (692 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 10:48 PM Response to Reply #8 |
24. The really interesting thing to me about Pascal's Wager |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-16-09 07:39 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. You make an interesting point. It was evidently another exampe of his |
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Jokerman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-16-09 11:49 AM Response to Reply #27 |
29. "further incontrovertible evidence...of Creation" |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-16-09 01:48 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Why bother? It's you people who start the aggressive anti-religious postings. I just respond. |
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Jokerman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-18-09 09:34 AM Response to Reply #30 |
38. "you people" - WTF? |
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ChadwickHenryWard (692 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-17-09 08:37 AM Response to Reply #27 |
37. I don't really know how to respond to all that. |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-16-09 06:51 AM Response to Reply #6 |
26. Well, of course, Pascal was a mystic; what many here would call a religious nut, |
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ChadwickHenryWard (692 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 10:41 PM Response to Reply #4 |
23. A nice, narrow, pedantic reading of what was clearly not intended as a scientific statement. |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-16-09 06:40 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Well, it did strike me as unworthy of old Tavener, like the sententious piffle |
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Fresh_Start (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 06:35 PM Response to Original message |
7. I think that people doing things for country |
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timtom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 06:39 PM Response to Original message |
10. Self delete. |
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wryter2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
12. You know...we just lost Mother Wright in Oakland |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 06:54 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Judge people by their actions |
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wryter2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 06:57 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Then, judge evil doers by their actions |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 07:06 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. But you have to be blind to see that religion is a progenator of evil |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-17-09 01:56 AM Response to Reply #19 |
36. It sounds like you're taking that as an article of faith. |
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pscot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 06:53 PM Response to Original message |
14. The thugs at Buchenwald didn't do it for religion |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 06:56 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Institutionalized religion |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-16-09 11:49 PM Response to Reply #16 |
33. Empty sloganeering is really no substitute for careful historical study. There is by now |
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ChadwickHenryWard (692 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 10:27 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. That's where fully and joyfully comes in. |
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pscot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-16-09 10:45 AM Response to Reply #21 |
28. Religious ecstasy isn't the only source of |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
18. I take equal joy in making evil polls that are anti-religious and evil polls that are pro-religious |
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ChadwickHenryWard (692 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 10:25 PM Response to Original message |
20. If you're liberal with the definition of "religion." |
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humblebum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-16-09 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
31. No religious convictions here:The Guinness Book of World Records |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-16-09 06:59 PM Original message |
"For good people to do evil things, THAT takes religion" --Steve Weinberg, physicist |
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DU GrovelBot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-16-09 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-17-09 01:44 AM Response to Original message |
34. Except for the Holocaust, the Great Cultural Revolution in China, the Khmer Rouge, |
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humblebum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-18-09 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
39. Your argument just doesn't stand up to the evidence |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-19-09 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
40. Veneration of the state is more powerful, imo. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-19-09 08:18 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. I agree strongly, and would expand that to |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-19-09 08:26 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. I would agree with that. |
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Jeffersonian Dem (55 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-22-09 07:21 PM Response to Original message |
43. Not joyfully. Hatefully. |
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