From: "Mark K. Bilbo" 

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:34:59 -0400, stumper wrote:

> Attila < wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:31:01 -0400, stumper  in
>> alt.abortion with message-id
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> Attila < wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:00:54 -0400, stumper
 in
>>>> alt.abortion with message-id
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>> Do you think atheism would solve any real problem?
>>>>>> Religious persecution and cult influence.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Is that bad?
>>>>>
>>>>> As bad as political persecution
>>>>> and cult worship of personality
>>>>> in atheistic communist countries?
>>>> Why do you insist on trying to equate cults and politics? 
Other than
>>>> cults trying to control though politics, a common ploy.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why do you harp on a failed  system that has almost disappeared from
>>>> the world scene?
>>>>
>>> Have you heard of China?
>>
>> Moving toward capitalism?  Complete with a stock market.
>>
>>> North Korea?
>>
>> A dictatorship with whatever government the Great Leader says they
>> have.
>>
>>> Maoists in South America?
>>
>> Rabble rousers.  There are socialists everywhere but few communists.
>>
>>> I see too much similarities between
>>> the "ridiculing tactic" of Thomas Jefferson
>>> and hate speeches against religion by communists.
>>
>> Why is it necessary to be a communist to have contempt for cults?
>>
>
> Not necessary.
>
> For most unsophisticated people,
> atheism is just another belief system like theism.

No wonder you don't get it...

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series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
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