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Originally Posted by willravel
You can't be an extremist atheist. There are no atheist bombings. There are no atheist crusades. One can be an extremist while being an atheist, I suppose, but there is no connection between the extremism and the atheism. We have no doctrine to be extreme about. We just don't believe in something.
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"... but of course, religion is poison. It has two great defects: It undermines the race ...(and) retards the progress of the country. Tibet and Mongolia have both been poisoned by it."
-Mao Zedong I believe extremism in atheism exists when it wants to eradication theism. More commonly, we may see this when the religious find it increasingly difficult to abide by their beliefs. We must strike a balance to allow us all to practice what we believe in, so long as it isn't harmful to others.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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