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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dawkins and Harris’s fans found this page quick quick, didn’t they?[/quote]

The title helps a lot.
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And what if they did?

Or what if many people actually just find organized religion offensive, or better yet, unnecessary?

Your glib, cryptic response, posted to offhandedly dismiss concerns on here that make you uncomfortable, merely underscores your apprehension with the massive shifts you can so easily observe along with the rest of us. Pew studies don’t lie. People are leaving organized religion in droves. So if it comforts you to say: “ Dawkins and Harris’s fans found this page quick quick, didn’t they?” then that’s fine and good.

The truth is there aren’t armies of Dawkins or harris supporters out there just looking to brigade threads like this. The simple truth is people of ordinary prudence, who don’t believe in organized religion, are gaining in numbers and can simply say how they feel now without the previous fear they had of being ostracized.[/quote]

Exactly right -- people used to be afraid of mentioning their lack of belief - and would even pretend they they were believers if it came up -- and it often did. It was a given to believe in god -- like it was a given to be straight.

Thankfully, those days are gone  -- and thanks to people like Harris and Dawkins for paving the way.  All non-believers are not like them, but without outspoken people like them, many of us would still have a fear of being ostracized - and for what -- for not believing in an unseen being who supposedly rules over us during our life as well as after our death.  [/quote]

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