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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
No, but arguing that atheists haven't gone out and fought any wars when it's only approximately 150 years old unlike Christianity (Which is 2,000 years old), is just plain faulty. How many wars did Christianity fight in it's first 150 years? I'd be willing to guess that number would be zero.
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It wasn't big enough. Atheism has about 14% of the country. That's a lot of people. Also, atheism is hundreds to thousands of years old.
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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
Now you're arguing number of people reached? Really, this is just getting ridiculous. Whether or not you reach one person or a million people, the point is that just as CNN had a panel of non-atheists to discuss atheism, so too do atheists have panels of non-theists arguing religious topics. If you think that one is more acceptable than the other because it reaches less viewers, then I don't know what else to tell you.
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Ridiculous? It's simple. The OP had a video making it clear that 3 Christians had no trouble bashing atheism, depsite a complete lack of knowledge on the subject. Then you made the claim that it happens all the time to Christians by atheists. Sorry, but you're wrong. You had to scourt the web, TV, and radio, and you found basically nothing. I'll bet $5 that you had to find that info and that you'd never heard of it before you had to go find it to back up something you pulled squarely from your butt.
The point is that you pulled it from your butt, and it's too late to try and fix it. The point is that, rather than address the point of the thread, you tried to make atheists seem equally insensitive and ignorant. Swing and a miss, again.
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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
Okay... That's some faulty logic. Unless you're being required to participate in religious events are even being made to acknowledge the teachings of another religion, then nothing is being imposed on you. That's like me saying that atheistic beliefs are being imposed on me by not allowing me to display my religious beliefs in school.
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There's a difference between faulty logic and something that's obviously too complicated for you to understand. Let me make this simple: Prayer doesn't belong in schools. When prayer is in schools, it's wrong.
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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
This isn't true. Democracies, in the purest of senses, are systems by which the majority rule (Though, in the US, the majority can't always overrule the minority).
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So then we VOTE and make this a theocracy, or you're wrong. Are we a theocracy? No. Therefore, you're wrong. Why are you trying to make this so complicated?
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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
...What are you talking about? You can use school facilities for religious purposes. I suppose you've also got a problem with that, seeing as how it's government property, right?
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It's simple: when the school supports a certian religion, it's wrong. Pray silently all you want. Pray before you eat the crappy school lunch, pray befor taking that big math test, pray because you're worried about that bully, but a teacher leading a prayer is wrong.
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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
All you can say is "It's wrong!". Would you care to explain why it's wrong without using the "Because the law says so!" crutch. Does is somehow harm you? Does it cause irreperable damage somewhere in your life? Does it convert you to a particular religion?
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Again, I'm sorry this is too complicated for you. Let me break it down.
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In 1962, the Supreme Court banned from public schools all public prayers and religious readings done for religious purposes. The Supreme Court continued to allow private prayer. As such, any teacher, faculty, or student can pray in school, in accordance with their own religion. However, they may not lead such prayers in class, or in other "official" school settings such as assemblies or programs. Even "non-sectarian" teacher-led prayers are not allowed, e.g. "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our country," which was part of the prayer required by the New York State Board of Regents prior to the decision of the Warren Court in Engel v. Vitale.
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From wiki
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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
Oh... I see... Screw that because it doesn't conform to your personal belief system, right?
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It's the law, sport, and we're going to obey it until you change it. And you won't be able to change it because even thouygh a vast majority of this country is Christian, very few of those Christians want to force their religion on others.