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    Misanthropos Member I of the Storm's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
    ... Friend of mine goes to church every sunday, we never talk about it, we have an unspoken agreement not to.
    That's tolerance on a pragmatic level, in a nutshell.

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    I would take it off as it is an anachronism with no real grounding in our national myth.
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    I haven't seen anyone here explain how a sentence on a banknote is dangerous to someone's atheism or why an atheist would need to feel bad about carrying such a sentence in his pocket?
    Nowadays people with a certain vision of things are likely to feel bad (or claim/pretend to feel bad) because of something quite innocent in other people's eyes. They file suits and get the court's rulings in their favor (like someone was offended to see father and mother on a birth certificate and demaded parent 1 and parent 2 instead). The same with the problem discussed. It seems like some people have too much spare time and no other poblems to worry about.
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    Might as well have "We Trust, In Yoda hmm" much more modern fictional character and I don't see any of his robed followers raping children and then fellow robe wearers absolving them...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Papewaio View Post
    Might as well have "We Trust, In Yoda hmm" much more modern fictional character and I don't see any of his robed followers raping children and then fellow robe wearers absolving them...
    That only makes sense if you believe that all religions are equally idiotic. Let's take a detour and only look at the consequences
    of an ideoligy, and consider in this grand-game of sanity not to be comparible Excusionists never any further than hundreds of years. Redicule is all that's left and 'redicilus' didn't work in a Harry Potter book either
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    Quote Originally Posted by Papewaio View Post
    Might as well have "We Trust, In Yoda hmm" much more modern fictional character and I don't see any of his robed followers raping children and then fellow robe wearers absolving them...
    I'd prefer Winter is coming or We pay our debts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
    That only makes sense if you believe that all religions are equally idiotic. Let's take a detour and only look at the consequences
    of an ideoligy, and consider in this grand-game of sanity not to be comparible Excusionists never any further than hundreds of years. Redicule is all that's left and 'redicilus' didn't work in a Harry Potter book either
    Idiotic in varying degrees. Harmless except for the terrorism, child molesters who are looked after by their superiors, one law for the state religion followers other laws for the rest, modification of science teaching to teach creation myths, not paying taxes, inbreeding groups etc

    Some just clap and drum a little too loud in the morning.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gilrandir View Post
    I'd prefer Winter is coming or We pay our debts.
    I was always partial to "E pluribus unum" but again it's their buisness.
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