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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://liberatedmind.com/2010/01/the-double-standard-outspoken-atheists-verses-outspoken-religious/comment-page-1/#comment-1427</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, it is a shame you feel you can speak disrespectfully to those who hold a different opinion than you, as you have demonstrated in your comments posted on this page.  People with your attitude usually do not come to a conversation with an open mind as you have shown, which makes engaging you in conversation pointless and time wasting.  The entire point of a discussion and debate is to gain a better understanding of someone else&#039;s views, broaden your understanding of a subject matter and widen your knowledge on the topic of discussion.  You have made clear this is not your goal here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, it is a shame you feel you can speak disrespectfully to those who hold a different opinion than you, as you have demonstrated in your comments posted on this page.  People with your attitude usually do not come to a conversation with an open mind as you have shown, which makes engaging you in conversation pointless and time wasting.  The entire point of a discussion and debate is to gain a better understanding of someone else&#8217;s views, broaden your understanding of a subject matter and widen your knowledge on the topic of discussion.  You have made clear this is not your goal here.</p>
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		<title>By: Jordan</title>
		<link>http://liberatedmind.com/2010/01/the-double-standard-outspoken-atheists-verses-outspoken-religious/comment-page-1/#comment-1426</link>
		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And you sound like the type of person who assumes you know someone. You assume I treat everyone the same way I treat you and grandma here. I know plenty of people who think differently from me and I show them the same amount of respect as someone who would believe the same way as me. 

I think you&#039;re a moron for completely different reasons. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And you sound like the type of person who assumes you know someone. You assume I treat everyone the same way I treat you and grandma here. I know plenty of people who think differently from me and I show them the same amount of respect as someone who would believe the same way as me. </p>
<p>I think you&#8217;re a moron for completely different reasons.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You come across very bitter and condescending.  You also assume that those who do not think exactly as you do are not intelligent.  </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You come across very bitter and condescending.  You also assume that those who do not think exactly as you do are not intelligent.</p>
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		<title>By: Jordan</title>
		<link>http://liberatedmind.com/2010/01/the-double-standard-outspoken-atheists-verses-outspoken-religious/comment-page-1/#comment-1424</link>
		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You can damn them to the DMV, but were not exactly talking about poking fun now are we? No... You&#039;re show off your superiority. Same with Grandma here. She and you both feel you&#039;re superior to those who believe in God. Look at this poorly written poem. She&#039;s thumbing her nose down at her friend because of her beliefs. And you&#039;re calling them fairy tales. 

If you can&#039;t prove it it doesn&#039;t exist, right? Well what about evolution. Which I&#039;m yet to see any shred of evidence proving it&#039;s real (and don&#039;t give me any excuses as to why we haven&#039;t found any evidence that proves it&#039;s real either.) What about the big bang theory? Spontaneous life? What about any of that? 

None of these theories have been proven either and I can see my beliefs from your view point too. You see God as a fairy tale and not a theory. You&#039;re actually very close minded. More than me that&#039;s for sure. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can damn them to the DMV, but were not exactly talking about poking fun now are we? No&#8230; You&#8217;re show off your superiority. Same with Grandma here. She and you both feel you&#8217;re superior to those who believe in God. Look at this poorly written poem. She&#8217;s thumbing her nose down at her friend because of her beliefs. And you&#8217;re calling them fairy tales. </p>
<p>If you can&#8217;t prove it it doesn&#8217;t exist, right? Well what about evolution. Which I&#8217;m yet to see any shred of evidence proving it&#8217;s real (and don&#8217;t give me any excuses as to why we haven&#8217;t found any evidence that proves it&#8217;s real either.) What about the big bang theory? Spontaneous life? What about any of that? </p>
<p>None of these theories have been proven either and I can see my beliefs from your view point too. You see God as a fairy tale and not a theory. You&#8217;re actually very close minded. More than me that&#8217;s for sure.</p>
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		<title>By: Jordan</title>
		<link>http://liberatedmind.com/2010/01/the-double-standard-outspoken-atheists-verses-outspoken-religious/comment-page-1/#comment-1423</link>
		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And of course you lumped everyone together. I re-read your brown-nosing comment and of course you were lumping everyone together. You&#039;re just like grandma up there with the pathetic poem. You&#039;re both ignorant and you have a superiority complex. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And of course you lumped everyone together. I re-read your brown-nosing comment and of course you were lumping everyone together. You&#8217;re just like grandma up there with the pathetic poem. You&#8217;re both ignorant and you have a superiority complex.</p>
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		<title>By: Jordan</title>
		<link>http://liberatedmind.com/2010/01/the-double-standard-outspoken-atheists-verses-outspoken-religious/comment-page-1/#comment-1422</link>
		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My little secret goes by a name. It&#039;s called common sense! Belief in God or not, if you were given everything for nothing. If you had no struggles in your life you would become fat and dependent on everyone else but yourself.

And heaven and earth are two different places. Earth is the place of struggles and heaven is a final reward. You obviously don&#039;t know the difference. Even atheists who use their brains can tell you that. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My little secret goes by a name. It&#8217;s called common sense! Belief in God or not, if you were given everything for nothing. If you had no struggles in your life you would become fat and dependent on everyone else but yourself.</p>
<p>And heaven and earth are two different places. Earth is the place of struggles and heaven is a final reward. You obviously don&#8217;t know the difference. Even atheists who use their brains can tell you that.</p>
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		<title>By: Jordan</title>
		<link>http://liberatedmind.com/2010/01/the-double-standard-outspoken-atheists-verses-outspoken-religious/comment-page-1/#comment-1421</link>
		<dc:creator>Jordan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>1. First of all you&#039;re lack of knowledge is astounding! Christian God? There is no Christian God, Catholic God or Jewish God. We all believe in the same God. Our beliefs are just different. 

You know I would keep going, but it&#039;s obvious that you didn&#039;t read or comprehend one thing that I said. When I said &#039;if being an atheist is against the law why can&#039;t we erect nativity scenes on public property&#039;. I said that because even if atheists had a problem with it they would be arrested on the spot. You seemed to simply ignore that and post whatever the hell you just posted. 

And don&#039;t thank me for posting. I was hoping someone who posted would know what they were talking about, but you obviously don&#039;t. Your first comment about believing in a &#039;Christian God&#039; proves that. If you knew SO much about anything you would know that Christians, Catholics and Jews believe in the same God. You didn&#039;t so I question your knowledge in everything else you just posted. 

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1. First of all you&#8217;re lack of knowledge is astounding! Christian God? There is no Christian God, Catholic God or Jewish God. We all believe in the same God. Our beliefs are just different. </p>
<p>You know I would keep going, but it&#8217;s obvious that you didn&#8217;t read or comprehend one thing that I said. When I said &#8216;if being an atheist is against the law why can&#8217;t we erect nativity scenes on public property&#8217;. I said that because even if atheists had a problem with it they would be arrested on the spot. You seemed to simply ignore that and post whatever the hell you just posted. </p>
<p>And don&#8217;t thank me for posting. I was hoping someone who posted would know what they were talking about, but you obviously don&#8217;t. Your first comment about believing in a &#8216;Christian God&#8217; proves that. If you knew SO much about anything you would know that Christians, Catholics and Jews believe in the same God. You didn&#8217;t so I question your knowledge in everything else you just posted.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://liberatedmind.com/2010/01/the-double-standard-outspoken-atheists-verses-outspoken-religious/comment-page-1/#comment-1418</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To your first point: If someone believes in the christian god, they are atheistic towards all other gods.  If you believe in the christian god, you are atheistic towards Zeus, Buddah, Mithra, Allah, and on and on.  Atheism just takes that one step further and is atheistic towards YOUR god (whatever that might be).  Atheism is simply a response to a god claim that has no evidence to support it.  Most people are atheists when it comes to fairies, santa clause, bigfoot, etc.  You might call people who don&#039;t think there is evidence for fairies Afairiests.  

To answer your point about politics:
In states like Oklahoma there are still active laws on the books that state that someone who does profess faith in a god cannot hold office or testify in court.  These laws haven&#039;t been enforced because they are unconstitutional, but the sentiment still holds true in many areas of the USA today.  It is difficult to be elected for office unless you profess unsupported belief in a bronze age god.

Setting up a nativity scene on government owned land would be a public display from the government in support of one religion over other religions.  

The first amendment states: &quot;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.&quot;

Erecting a religious scene of any branch or flavor of religion would cross the boundary of government establishing that religion as the favored one.  If a group of druids wanted to erect a Triple Goddess symbol on the front lawn of the courtyard, atheists would take issue with that as well, as it is the government displaying favoritism towards one religion.

Thanks for reading and commenting.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To your first point: If someone believes in the christian god, they are atheistic towards all other gods.  If you believe in the christian god, you are atheistic towards Zeus, Buddah, Mithra, Allah, and on and on.  Atheism just takes that one step further and is atheistic towards YOUR god (whatever that might be).  Atheism is simply a response to a god claim that has no evidence to support it.  Most people are atheists when it comes to fairies, santa clause, bigfoot, etc.  You might call people who don&#8217;t think there is evidence for fairies Afairiests.  </p>
<p>To answer your point about politics:<br />
In states like Oklahoma there are still active laws on the books that state that someone who does profess faith in a god cannot hold office or testify in court.  These laws haven&#8217;t been enforced because they are unconstitutional, but the sentiment still holds true in many areas of the USA today.  It is difficult to be elected for office unless you profess unsupported belief in a bronze age god.</p>
<p>Setting up a nativity scene on government owned land would be a public display from the government in support of one religion over other religions.  </p>
<p>The first amendment states: &#8220;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.&#8221;</p>
<p>Erecting a religious scene of any branch or flavor of religion would cross the boundary of government establishing that religion as the favored one.  If a group of druids wanted to erect a Triple Goddess symbol on the front lawn of the courtyard, atheists would take issue with that as well, as it is the government displaying favoritism towards one religion.</p>
<p>Thanks for reading and commenting.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My comment does not lump everyone together.  Go back and read it again &quot;for those who trust in an...&quot;  Your little secret is fascinating.  How do you know this? Did your god tell you?  Isn&#039;t heaven exactly what you described the earth is not? A cheery place for everyone to live in?  If people will be there longer than they are here, it seems like they will be ungrateful and lazy in heaven, according to your secret information on why earth isn&#039;t a great place to live.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My comment does not lump everyone together.  Go back and read it again &#8220;for those who trust in an&#8230;&#8221;  Your little secret is fascinating.  How do you know this? Did your god tell you?  Isn&#8217;t heaven exactly what you described the earth is not? A cheery place for everyone to live in?  If people will be there longer than they are here, it seems like they will be ungrateful and lazy in heaven, according to your secret information on why earth isn&#8217;t a great place to live.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Poking fun at those who believe in fairy tales is not damning them... I think that would require setting up a place to damn them to :)  Humor is the means by which humanity is able to free itself from fear, from authority.  </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Poking fun at those who believe in fairy tales is not damning them&#8230; I think that would require setting up a place to damn them to :)  Humor is the means by which humanity is able to free itself from fear, from authority.</p>
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