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I'm An Atheist (Original Post)
ItsjustMe
Feb 2022
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Mr.Bill
(24,846 posts)1. When the religious people say
they don't mind Atheists, they just don't want it forced on them, I tell them I promise that when we take over we won't put "There Is No God" on all the money.
orwell
(7,990 posts)2. i'm an atheist...
...because I've prayed to God that I could understand Drumpf and his Christian cult and I still hate their guts.
...because if there is a hell all my friends will be there.
...because there can't be a God if George Bush Jr and Drumpf could both be presidents of the United States in the same century.
czarjak
(12,516 posts)3. "We're all children of the same god" according to Mitt in 2012. Now that's some funny shit!
old as dirt
(1,972 posts)4. I disagree.
This ignorant and ugly meme puts the culture that produced it to great shame.
Not the cultures that it seeks to insult.
To whoever created it I ask: What makes the sacrifices of your culture's warriors any greater than the sacrifices of the warriors of other cultures, such as this Catholic culture, for example?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
RELIGIOSIDAD AFROPATIANA
Funerales de Angelitos: Arrullos
https://repository.javeriana.edu.co/bitstream/handle/10554/6623/tesis149.pdf;sequence=1
From page 44:
2.4 El Palenque de El Castigo
"Stolen from Africa, brought to America,
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival"
-Bob Marley
En la época colonial muchos esclavizados o cimarrones conformaron grupos en las
montañas, y de manera espontánea fueron tomando conciencia de grupo hasta que se
convirtieron en apalencados y fundaron poblados autónomos llamados palenques. En
los primeros momentos de rebeldía fueron los bozales o recién llegados quienes unidos
en pequeñas bandas huyeron hacia los montes.
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In colonial times, many enslaved people or cimarrones formed groups in the mountains and spontaneously became aware of their group until they became apalencados and founded autonomous became apalencados and founded autonomous settlements called palenques. In the first moments of rebellion, it was the "bozales" or newcomers who, united in small bands, fled towards the mountains.