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echo: holysmoke
to: Ross Cassell
from: Ross Sauer
date: 2009-04-07 15:07:00
subject: Food for thought

"Ross Cassell -> All"  wrote in
news:8309$HOLYSMOKE{at}JamNNTPd:

 RC> There are 2 types of relgionists..

 RC> The ones that bother no one and keep to themselves.

 RC> The radical ones whom get in everyones face and try to convert others.

 RC> Question is, is there such a thing as a radical/rabid atheist?

There was.
Madeline Murray O'Hare.
She went out of her way to obnoxious, overbearing and condescending.
She ended up being murdered in a failed extortion attempt.

 RC> Can a person be an atheist, be indifferent towards those whom believe
 RC> and otherwise, letting everyone be as they choose?

Yes. Problem is, the theocrats want to impose thier beliefs on everyone.

 RC> Do other atheists launch into crusades to persecute or otherwise demean
 RC> those of religious belief?

None that I know of.

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