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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whether it actually happens or not is not the concern. The concern is that people are out there actively wanting it, and these people have influence in many many places, at the state, local and federal levels. From school boards to the supreme court. We’ve seen this at all those levels recently and it is terrifying and religion is the core part of the problem.

And before anybody explodes, I’m not saying all religious people are this way. [b]But religion itself is a problem.  It’s the 21st-century and we hang onto these beliefs at our own peril.[/quote][/b]

[b]That kind of black-and-white thinking is equally part of the problem. [/b][…][/quote]
I consider myself religious, though I don’t attend church. I have never voted for a Republican in my life, I believe in evolution, I’m slowly converting my yard to native plants for carbon sequestration, believe in the separation of church and state, prize the rule of law and I am rabidly feminist and pro choice. Painting all religions as equally bad is weak brained and is unlikely to win you any points on the internet or where it matters. [/quote]

Are you me? Down to the native plants and rabid feminism? I agree, painting all religions as equally horrible—or any single religion as horrible—just makes the person arguing this look ignorant and bigoted. That line of debate never wins arguments. [/quote]
I’m the pp you’re replying to; hello internet twin.

Frankly, atheists and agnostics teaming up with the sane churches - those who believe in progress, the separation of church and state, the rule of law, etc - should be the goal. Churches have the organization. Churches have dedicated flocks. Don’t paint everyone with the same broad brush. Just because I consider myself religious doesn’t mean I think God created the Remington bolt action rifle on third day to fight the dinosaurs and the homosexuals. [/quote]

Many, perhaps most atheists, understand that there are differences among Christian denominations.  Many of us were Christians once.  We also know that many of the sane Christian denominations are dwindling in numbers, so likely do not have enough organization or members to effectively team up with to counteract whatever the crazy christians are up to.[/quote]

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