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Civil War Man wrote:

adr wrote:

But D13 is also quite stubbornly arguing that you need something called "free will" in order to have morality.

Is that guy claiming it's possible to have morality when all of your thoughts and actions have been predetermined?

Civil War Man wrote:Stock market crashes
No sign of debris
Assume vaporization

uraniun235 wrote:http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic. ... 2&t=153797

lol baffalo strikes again

Civil War Man wrote:I usually stay away from SLAM, but while checking out the clusterfuck in the secular morality thread, I saw one about the double standard between what constitutes militant atheism and militant theism. And I realized that a lot of first world Dawkins-like atheists have a pretty massive persecution complex going on.

I mean, since atheism isn't any form of belief system or anything like that, it's pretty hard to actually be persecuted on a systemic level outside of banning anything that isn't explicitly religiously affiliated. No one is trying to block the construction of a secular community center by claiming it's trying to impose some vague atheist law on the country. No one is trying to pass a constitutional amendment denying atheists the right to marry.

But oh no a poll says a lot of people don't trust atheists.

Just as a disclaimer, I'm not denying that there's persecution of some atheists on a personal level in this country, but it is not nearly as systemic, and almost never as bad, as the shit muslims and gays have to put up with.

Oxymoron wrote:I've heard things about a supposed "American Victimization Complex", a thing in the American culture that supposedly push everyone to try to, by default, portrait themselves as victims, for whatever reasons (maybe the idea that if you are a victim then you can't be the one committing something wrong ?).

Can it come from something like this ?

Matthew 5:10-12 (NKJV) Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Oxymoron wrote:I see. And I suppose the Civil Rights issues, and then the whole crop of activist movements that that came after (abortion, gay rights, etc...) took up on it.

adr wrote:get your strawmanning ass out of this thread adr

this is your final warning

Zod wrote:

Oxymoron wrote:I see. And I suppose the Civil Rights issues, and then the whole crop of activist movements that that came after (abortion, gay rights, etc...) took up on it.

Take a look at the latest birth control healthcare fiasco with the Catholic shitheads.

They're claiming it's their "Rosa Parks" moment and that their beliefs are being attacked.

Civil War Man wrote:Made even more hilarious because the "you are banned" post descended straight into paranoid conspiracy theory delusion by accusing Legault of being a secret Christian fundamentalist who was pretending to be an atheist in order to destroy the atheists on an internet message board.

adr wrote:one time i saw some people praying in front of me

so i shot and killed them for infringing upon my freedom from religion

guess who wrote:This also begs the question of whether our modern humanitarian society, by being so reluctant to use execution or forced sterilization upon even the most heinous of criminals, is inadvertently encouraging the cancer-like growth of sociopathic behaviour in our population. If sociopathic behaviour is a genetic trait (and there is increasingly disturbing evidence that it is), then it would make sense to try to eliminate its growth in our gene pool.

Oxymoron wrote:I propose a Versus debate :

SDN Vs. HPCA

What happen ?

uraniun235 wrote:

guess who wrote:This also begs the question of whether our modern humanitarian society, by being so reluctant to use execution or forced sterilization upon even the most heinous of criminals, is inadvertently encouraging the cancer-like growth of sociopathic behaviour in our population. If sociopathic behaviour is a genetic trait (and there is increasingly disturbing evidence that it is), then it would make sense to try to eliminate its growth in our gene pool.