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Author: quibblerquibbler Date: Mar 5, 2007 15:59
>>
>> Most of
>> them were into heavy metal and professed things like satanism. So the
>> idea that they would be scandalized by mere atheism is rather laughable
>> and hard to believe.
>
> Why not?
The reason kiddies usually pick satanism is as an attempt to overtly
reject the norms of theism, not so much for the supernatural nonsense.
Atheism often is more innocuous and less visible, because a humanistic
value system (common to many atheists) is basically xian brotherhood sans
the spooky god bullshit. Atheists often don't particularly attract much
attention and usually keep to themselves. It's only when there are fundy
idiots aggressively pushing their agendas that atheists tend to step up
and verbally bitch-slap xers a bit.
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Quibbler ( quibbler247atyahoo.com)
"It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the
threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, 'mad cow'
disease, and many others, but I think a case can be
made that faith is one of the world's great evils,
comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to
eradicate." -- Richard Dawkins
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