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Atheists & Agnostics

rurallib

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3. excellent post

Reply to trotsky (Reply #2)

Fri May 5, 2017, 07:27 PM

May 2017

may I add a thought?

The linkage of a "mad" dictator to atheism also adds the concept that atheism is by definition, crazy. Anyone who shares the "religion" of the mad dictator must also be mad, because atheism is only held by the crazy.

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Atheism and dictators [View all] es35 May 2017 OP

Dictators hate anyone who does not worship a deity. Doreen May 2017 #1

Yeah it's a bullshit defense employed by religionists who've already lost the argument. trotsky May 2017 #2

excellent post rurallib May 2017 #3

Great point and I concur. n/t trotsky May 2017 #5

Spot on! beam me up scottie May 2017 #4