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1 year ago  ::  Mar 11, 2012 - 1:36PM #1
Marcion
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Which is the dark side; atheism or dogmatic religions.
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1 year ago  ::  Mar 11, 2012 - 1:41PM #2
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In which context?
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1 year ago  ::  Mar 11, 2012 - 1:45PM #3
Eudaimonist
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What does the phrase "dark side" even mean?



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1 year ago  ::  Mar 11, 2012 - 1:46PM #4
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Atheism cannot be a dark side since all Atheism is is a lack of belief in gods. It's not a "side."

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1 year ago  ::  Mar 11, 2012 - 5:09PM #5
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Mar 11, 2012 -- 1:36PM, Marcion wrote:

Which is the dark side; atheism or dogmatic religions.



Atheism isn't a side of anything, rather it is a lack of a "side". 


Dogmatic, inflexible and difficult religions' greatest foes are liberal religions and vice versa.


Both groups are welcome to find an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean and fight it out amongst themselves as far as I am concerned. The winners get to stay on the island.
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1 year ago  ::  Mar 11, 2012 - 6:00PM #6
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Mar 11, 2012 -- 5:09PM, steven_guy wrote:

Atheism isn't a side of anything, rather it is a lack of a "side". 


Dogmatic, inflexible and difficult religions' greatest foes are liberal religions and vice versa.


Both groups are welcome to find an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean and fight it out amongst themselves as far as I am concerned. The winners get to stay on the island.


How about they use New Zealand? No one's using it except to make movies and raise sheep.

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1 year ago  ::  Mar 11, 2012 - 6:04PM #7
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Mar 11, 2012 -- 6:00PM, mountain_man wrote:


Mar 11, 2012 -- 5:09PM, steven_guy wrote:

Atheism isn't a side of anything, rather it is a lack of a "side". 


Dogmatic, inflexible and difficult religions' greatest foes are liberal religions and vice versa.


Both groups are welcome to find an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean and fight it out amongst themselves as far as I am concerned. The winners get to stay on the island.


How about they use New Zealand? No one's using it except to make movies and raise sheep.




(sniggers)


Ah, New Zealand - the land where men are men and sheep are nervous.
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1 year ago  ::  Mar 11, 2012 - 7:33PM #8
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Ah, New Zealand - the land where men are men and sheep are nervous.


You may recall Gene Wilder in the What is Sodomy? sketch in Woody Allen's Everything you Wanted to Know about Sex but were Afraid to Ask.
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1 year ago  ::  Mar 11, 2012 - 8:16PM #9
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"Ah, New Zealand - the land where men are men and sheep are nervous."


 


Damn, i may not buy any more NZ lamb. That sweet meat may be our cousins.
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1 year ago  ::  Mar 11, 2012 - 8:18PM #10
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Howdy


 


Mar 11, 2012 -- 1:36PM, Marcion wrote:

Which is the dark side; atheism or dogmatic religions.




It is "dogmatism"  that is "dark".  

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