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Philosoraptor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 05:53 AM Original message |
How do Atheists view the never ending Mid East conflicts? |
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madeline_con (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 05:57 AM Response to Original message |
1. Are we waiting for atheists? |
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China_cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 05:58 AM Response to Original message |
2. Self-fulfilling prophecy |
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madeline_con (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:02 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Wait... |
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China_cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:26 AM Response to Reply #5 |
21. god didn't give them that land |
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madeline_con (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:33 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Sure years later, after God ... |
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rogerashton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 07:19 AM Response to Reply #21 |
32. Not quite right, as I recall. |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 08:33 AM Response to Reply #32 |
50. You know, there's a reason why the Brits lost their empire. |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:16 AM Response to Reply #2 |
12. This is not really a religious war |
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madeline_con (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:23 AM Response to Reply #12 |
19. When someone say God gave them land, it's about religion. n/t |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:57 AM Response to Reply #19 |
28. I disagree |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 10:07 AM Response to Reply #28 |
58. Yes. |
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LiberalVoice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:00 AM Response to Original message |
3. Frankly, im fucking sick of it. |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:01 AM Response to Original message |
4. religion is mythology |
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madeline_con (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:13 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. So the whole thing is based on mythology? |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:20 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. exactly... |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 09:48 AM Response to Reply #4 |
54. Both have similar definitions... |
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LunaSea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:03 AM Response to Original message |
6. dance, monkeyboy, dance....... |
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madeline_con (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:15 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. off topic |
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rogerashton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:05 AM Response to Original message |
7. It is always and everywhere a great moral wrong |
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MGD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:06 AM Response to Original message |
8. I think |
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LiberalVoice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:12 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Perhaps |
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MGD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:21 AM Response to Reply #9 |
17. Man, as a whole, is incapable of internally rationalizing good behavior |
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LiberalVoice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:25 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. I disagree. If true... |
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MGD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:44 AM Response to Reply #20 |
25. Man is, at heart, a beast (IMO) |
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LiberalVoice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 07:24 AM Response to Reply #25 |
34. The human mind seperates us from other beasts. |
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MGD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 07:57 AM Response to Reply #34 |
36. The human mind just makes us a more intelligent beast |
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LiberalVoice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 08:15 AM Response to Reply #36 |
44. There certainly is denying it. |
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madeline_con (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:29 AM Response to Reply #17 |
22. Really, I read it was like death throes of the baser part |
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madeline_con (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:19 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Like land and water maybe. |
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ima_sinnic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:18 AM Response to Original message |
13. I refuse to be labelled as agnostic, atheist, or whatever |
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madeline_con (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:21 AM Response to Reply #13 |
18. I've heard we'll run ouit of fossil fuel before we destroy the |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:20 AM Response to Original message |
16. You don't have to view an issue with a belief in religion |
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Epiphany4z (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:34 AM Response to Original message |
24. I think about this a lot |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:50 AM Response to Original message |
26. Basically "tribal" rather than religious. |
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papau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 06:57 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. I agree n/t |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 07:03 AM Response to Original message |
29. Personally, I think it's more tribalism than religion. |
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JackDragna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 07:14 AM Response to Original message |
30. I'm an atheist and my opinion on this isn't affected... |
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warrior1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 07:16 AM Response to Original message |
31. Mankind does not deserve the earth. |
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TheFriedPiper (610 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 07:24 AM Response to Original message |
33. If there was a god, he/she/it could make them share the land |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 07:36 AM Response to Original message |
35. History has shown us |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 07:58 AM Response to Original message |
37. Google about what Richard Dawkins had to say about 9/11. |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
38. A pox on both their houses...nt |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 08:08 AM Response to Original message |
39. Religion is just one of the wedge issues used to rally peoples against one |
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Jacobin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 08:10 AM Response to Original message |
40. We should sell arms to both sides and let them blow themselves |
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Philosoraptor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 08:12 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. I'd go for that, also for stopping the sale of arms to all nations. |
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MGD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 08:18 AM Response to Reply #41 |
45. People would just kill each other with AK-47s instead of M-16s |
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MGD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 08:13 AM Response to Reply #40 |
43. We should sell arms to the Israelis and let them kill terrorists for us |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 10:01 AM Response to Reply #40 |
57. ...except that |
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Hugin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 08:12 AM Response to Original message |
42. They're wondering what a local real estate dispute has to do with our... |
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passy (780 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 08:24 AM Response to Original message |
46. Once upon a time in the west. |
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mr blur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 08:28 AM Response to Original message |
47. Religious whackjobs fighting other religious whackjobs |
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LeftHander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 08:29 AM Response to Original message |
48. An atheist responds..... |
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leesa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 08:30 AM Response to Original message |
49. As an ongoing money/ego making orgy. |
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Solo_in_MD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 08:39 AM Response to Original message |
51. False Premise |
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Goblinmonger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 09:47 AM Response to Reply #51 |
53. Linky? |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
52. I see it as an indication of how religion-run-amok. People are born into |
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Tsiyu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
55. I get angry and frustrated |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
56. strong evidence that religion is bullshit |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
59. It simply proves my point that religion is the root of evil |
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MamaBear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
60. I wonder how much of the conflict is actually about religion. |
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