From: stumper 

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.

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~Stumper

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