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Judge, you over-estimate your atheist parishioners. For YOU it may be about science. You're like the old-school atheist. For everyone else, especially in this forum, you get raw under-educated emotions. Nothing more. They don't give a shit about science; they can't understand it anyway. They FOLLOW.
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Maybe they're just tired of the same old arguments. Admittedly much has changed here since the early days but I'm enjoying being back.
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If Christopher Hitchens tells them to (or told them), or Richard Dawkins tells them to strap on dynamite and detonate in the middle of a nativity scene at the local VFW--they're going to do it!
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Of course, this is bullshit. For one Hitch would never have said such an absurd thing. He'd have lost a lot of credibility if he had.
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And your old-school, philosopher-atheist shit is over for them. It didn't work; it didn't persuade, not ultimately anyway,
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Whether it did or didn't the growth of unaffiliated / non-spiritual / atheists / "Nones" has grown certainly in the UK and in the US in recent years. Did this play a part? Possibly but there are arguably many other factors at play to effect such a shift in tides.
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...and once communism failed, the big bang got usurped by the the theists,
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Bit of a non-sequiter here
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...and evolution never proved how a cell formed,
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It never tried to.
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...the new atheism is just about the desire to be rude, anti-social, and act intellectually superior to superstitious Catholic mountain villagers in Brazil.
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This is so specific I'm really not sure where it's come from
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Besides, all this anti-Christian shtick totally fell apart when we saw what Islam was all about with ISIS. Now, everyone wants a Christian with a gun for a neighbor--internationally speaking.
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LOL this is not the case, although I know you wish it were as it would give you a big sense of much needed validation I'm sure.