Re: ATHEISM - A Side-Effect of Religious Stupidity

On 10 May, 07:41, "John Smith" <bobsyoung...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "curtjester1" <curtjest...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 9 May, 10:11, Rod <icom...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Bibon wrote:
> > > TUPELO, Miss., -- A federal court of appeals has ruled in favor of
an
> > > inmate who claimed that Wisconsin prison officials violated his
rights=

> > > under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment because they
> > > refused to allow him to create a study group for atheists.
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> > > The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that prison officials erred
> > > because they =93did not treat atheism as a =91religion.=92=94 The
cour=
t said,
> > > =93Atheism is [the inmate=92s] religion, and the group that he
wanted =
to
> > > start was religious in nature even though it expressly rejects a
belie=
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> > > in a supreme being.=94
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> > > Brian Fahling, senior trial attorney for the American Family
Associati=
on
> > > Center for Law & Policy, described the court=92s ruling as =93a sort
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> > > Alice in Wonderland jurisprudence.=94
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> > > =93Up is down, and atheism, the antithesis of religion, is
religion,=
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> > > stated Fahling.
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> > > The Supreme Court has said that a religion need not be based on a
beli=
ef
> > > in the existence of a supreme being. In the 1961 case of Torcaso v.
> > > Watkins, the Court described =93secular humanism=94 as a religion.
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> > > ************
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> > > Yes, atheism is a religion and is recognized as such by Federal
Courts=

> > > in the USA. More ammo for you to use against those who doubt your
FAIT=
H!
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> > Atheism is not a religion..the fact that a judge and lawyers see it
> > as such is just another indication of the mentality of sickness that
> > permeates society today. Atheism is a mode of existence, a means of
> > living ones life free of unjustified restraint.- Hide quoted text -
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> What exactly are you freeing yourself of? =A0Is society or religion
> forcing you to have to have one of their belief system's? =A0"Unjustifed
> Restraint"? =A0What a hoot!
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> The fact is, anything is and can be umbrelled under religion.
> Hedonism, government followers.... =A0they are all basically
> 'lifestyles' that people side up on. =A0 Atheism *IS* just another
> religion because they embrace and prosetelyze a system that they don't
> care for, a belief in a higher power.
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> **Atheism is not a religion, no matter how a judge describes it.
> **Atheism, though, still has all the rights that are given in "religious
> freedom"; it can be no other way.
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> **They "embrace" nothing - they are merely defending their rights and
thei=
r
> "religious" freedoms fro attacks by fanatical, ignorant, Hitleresque
> religious zealots.
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> **Calling atheism a religon would be like callingh Judaism a form of
> Nazi-ism.
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> They have no way to actually
> prove it, but their religion is to downgrade, debunk, or demoralize
> people that do. =A0I find their argument that an answer(s) in a book
> thing also amusing, in that usually they use books all the time to
> promote, degrade..and whatever they do to keep their *religion*
> alive.
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> **Take your blinders off, and get your "lying for jesus" head out of
your
> ass!
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> **The VAST majority of acts yuou descibe are done by believers against
oth=
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Ever get the feeling he really doesn't know exactly enough what he
believes in to actually define it?

CJ