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Hi Bogdan.
You have again provided another great quote from a very good person. She did a lot for many people and was a fine lady.
It really is sad that while each person is different and unique, most people are really rather sheep like. They follow leaders and trends rather than actually thinking for themselves as much as they could, and should.
Many years ago, when the movie "Urban Cowboy" came out, many people bought cowboy boots & got into western dancing. For a while, buying vans was in and then pick up trucks, then RUV's.
Now because many, to most, Americans are overweight you have people saying have extra pounds is no longer considered unattractive.
(Which is a totally untrue as few would rather look at a fat person than at a fit person.)
And most people do not question the beliefs they were programmed with as babies and small children.
This is the reason most people are the religion their parents are. (or any religion at all) Had they been raised by people who believed in a different religion, that is the one they would believe in.
For instance, had Douglas Grounds been raised a Moslem, he would constantely be pushing it religion instead of the Christain religion. And he would be just as sure it was the rigth one to beleive in.
I see where Douglas said: "I Have found the secret to being a good individual, is to park yourself in church as much as possible, and become active in the word."
Really Douglas?
Then how come there have only been four people in history who have been awarded TWO Noble Prizes each and all four of them neither believed in your religion OR in any personal, prayer answering gods?
They are Marie Curie, Burtrand Russell, Linus Palling, who were all ATHEISTS and Albert Einstein who rejected the concept of a personal god.
How come I do not know of one really rich religious American who has given 90% of their huge fortune to help others like a Atheist named Andrew Carnegie did?
Why do I not know of ONE rich religious American who has given the United Nations ONE BILLION dollars to help others when an ATHEIST named Ted Turner has?
And Douglas, why do I not know of ONE rich religious American who has already given MANY BILLIONS of Dollars to help others and who is constantly giving many more BILLIONS of dollars (23 Billion total) when an ATHEIST named Bill Gates has and is?
Douglas, you & others need to read what these "American Christian leaders" have said & then tell me (with a straight face) they are really "good people"
http://www.sullivan-county.com/news/mine/quotes.htm
Compare the things they say to what America's greatest orator, Robert Green Ingersoll, who was also one of America's greatest thinkers & an Atheist leader said.
"The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself."
Why don't those Far Right Christian's say things like that if they are so good?
For more on Ingersoll go here:
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/
The truth is religious people are NOT any more honest, kind, helpful, nice, just, truthful, hard working, compassionate, brave, intelligent, courageous or any other positive trait than Atheists are.
So Douglas, you go to church and be active in the "word" while we Atheists go out and make the world a better place to live.
After all, it was not Atheists who blew up the Federal Building in Ok. City and the Olympics in Atlanta. Nope, it was Christians who did those things.
And it was not Atheists who have been conducting terrorist attacks killing people all around the world since 1989 and who did 9-11. Nope, it was more religious people who did, and do those things.
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