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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many posts here attack organized religion and call it evil and the source of evil in the world. People as recently as yesterday have posted they wish they could ban organized religion.

Why do these posters (atheists, anti-theists) not realize our entire country is based upon religious freedom? They are admitting openly they are in direct opposition of the express wishes of our country’s founders and our constitution and laws? Or do they realize and just don’t care?

Also, if you look at countries that limit religious freedom, you see a pattern of government control that makes said country extremely dangerous and authoritarian to live in, it’s not good. If you think organized religion is evil, why are the countries that limit or basically outlaw religion such terrible places to live?

If you are an atheist or anti- theist who thinks organized religion is evil, and you would like to ban organized religion, how do you feel about our forefathers (who thought religious freedom was extremely important) and the emphasis our laws place on religious freedom and liberty? [/quote]

You are an idiot religious creep

Atheists are not the problem it’s the religious right. Which you know because that is you.

I had to endore  religious garbage in public school my whole life where was my religious freedom?  I wasn’t Catholic and my whole town but three families were.  Do you know how awful that was!

Then as an adult living in NC my kids had to deal with it too. We moved to MD to get away from that shit being shoved down our throats. Yes this happened.

And your boys are now trying to kill women and keep them barefoot and pregnant so take your religious crap and shove it.

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You didn't get to eat meat on Fridays? How awful. You truly have suffered.[/quote]

+1 drama queen tantrum

millions of slaves around the world wish they and their children could be free, have safe, drinkable water, food, and shelter. American atheists and anti-theists don’t care about the millions of enslaved slaves on the planet right now, they spend their time whining about the Jewish people of antiquity owning slaves. I wonder if those people are casually inserting antisemitism into the conversation and want to connect the dots between Jewish people in the Bible owning slaves to the Jewish people that bankrolled the Atlantic slave trade and owned black slaves in America?

“A tenured professor in Wellesley's Department of Africana Studies, Martin assigned to one of his classes portions of the book, which singles out Jews for special prominence in the Atlantic slave trade and for having played a particularly prominent role in the enslavement of Africans in the Americas.

Martin, in one of his endorsements, made a startling assertion concerning slave ownership by Jews: "Using the research of Jewish historians, the book suggests that based on the 1830 census, Jews actually had a higher per capita slave ownership than for the white population as a whole." The Secret Relationship does in fact approach making that suggestion, and since the claim would appear to be a pivotal one, it is worth examining.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1995/09/slavery-and-the-jews/376462/

Jacob Rader Marcus, a historian and Reform rabbi, wrote in his four-volume history of Americans Jews that over 75 percent of Jewish families in Charleston, South Carolina; Richmond, Virginia; and Savannah, Georgia, owned slaves, and nearly 40 percent of Jewish households across the country did.

A number of wealthy Jews were also involved in the slave trade in the Americas, some as shipowners who imported slaves and others as agents who resold them. In the United States, Isaac Da Costa of Charleston, David Franks of Philadelphia and Aaron Lopez of Newport, Rhode Island, are among the early American Jews who were prominent in the importation and sale of African slaves. In addition, some Jews were involved in the trade in various European Caribbean colonies. Alexandre Lindo, a French-born Jew who became a wealthy merchant in Jamaica in the late 18th century, was a major seller of slaves on the island.

According Eli Faber, a historian at New York City’s John Jay College, Jews were more likely than non-Jews to own slaves, but on average they owned fewer of them.

I don’t know if the people obsessed with posting about slavery being endorsed in the Bible are antisemitic, it’s possible. [/quote]

Yet you’re the most obsessed person posting here, and you’re the primary poster introducing toxic themes. I don’t know if this is the only way you have of getting even a few crumbs of attention in an anonymous forum. It’s possible. [/quote]

So you are antisemitic. It’s not a surprise. [/quote]

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