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Religious Skeptics Believe Their Voices Will Be Heard
Author: Robert King Source: Indianapolis Star (IN)
Title: RELIGIOUS SKEPTICS BELIEVE THEIR VOICES WILL BE HEARD
City buses in Bloomington and South Bend carry ads telling passengers "You can be good without God."
A billboard going up on Indianapolis' Northside will ask commuters to "Imagine No Religion."
And a local group of atheists, agnostics, secular humanists and others is hosting "Religion Under Examination," a three-day conference this weekend seeking to show the Bible and the Quran, Islam's holy text, are fiction.
Once resigned to brooding quietly, nonbelievers are making their presence known.
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| Good For Them! | Sep 14th. at 9:00:38 am EDT
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Laura C. (Weston, Florida) - Email Me
I think everyone, of every religion or none at all, needs to learn how fanaticism can be dangerous. Religious fanaticism can spring up in any religion, and when it does, it generally causes suffering.
Plus, the RR needs to learn that it can't bully the rest of us anymore. We have the right to choose not to believe in their sadistic vision of deity, and we're using it.
And Draken, you must have been speaking to the wrong atheists or something, because most of the ones I've encountered were a lot more accepting. After all the RR's trying to screw us all, Pagan and atheist/agnostic alike.
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| ... | Sep 13th. at 6:15:56 am EDT
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
My experience with atheists is as follows. The xian will try to convert the atheist, the atheist will state that (in spite of there being ZERO evidence for the existence of the mythological Jebus) Jebus was a rabble-rouser trying to liberate Judea. I chime in asking how the so-called "atheist" is prepared to debate Wiccans and he goes "they're a bunch of kooky, flaky high-school drop-outs." Don't believe me? Ask one yourself.
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| I Live In Bloomington | Sep 12th. at 6:08:50 pm EDT
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Fekona (Bloomington, Indiana) - Email Me
I see these signs everywhere! the Anti-Atheists are making signs "You can be good without God but you can be saved by Jesus" or something along those lines Atheists had to fight this long just to have there signs put up I guess freedom of speech has it limitations, but this town believes this is a "liberal" town, Well kinda sorta in the middle of the bible belt basically your cool to do or be who you wish so as long the bible thumpers have the throne of the town and the complete say so of the land, Bloomington is a wonderful town, we have people of every race in Bloomington, we have places of worship of every culture here as well, we have multi cultural events that are fantastic to see but the only time Bloomington is not fun or interesting is when the Bible thumpers come a knocking then look out real unity will be no more! I think that billboarding religion is not good it just drives people away and tears them apart
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| A Welcome View | Sep 12th. at 2:21:13 pm EDT
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R. Cicero (Seattle, Washington) - Email Me
It's a more interesting world with their voices up, I think. I actually believe in an amorphous, potentially benevolent but typically disinterested godhead ruling all things great and small, from eternity to utter negation. But if you want to be intellectually honest, the only philosophically tenable 'solar' view is to be agnostic. It seems foolish to be too sure about anything. But then humans EXCELL at being foolish (I'm reasonably good at it, too) . But agnostics keep the conversations open, instead of slamming doors on our prejudiced asses. It does seem more true to me now that atheism is (or can be) a belief system, not the absolute bald truth I used to think it was. No one owns that privilege, except, perhaps . . .
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| The Only Problem That I Foresee... | Sep 12th. at 1:27:15 pm EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
is that historically, when the pendulum swings, it always moves too far one way or the other and there is never an even balance in anything that was ever done. While I laud the skeptics efforts to be heard, and hope that they continue their campaign and even step it up a little, that they take into consideration that everyone is entitled to believe as they do, no matter how strange or ridiculous it seems to those that don't share them.
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