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Posted by: idyll 8 months, 4 weeks ago

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Earlier this year, a secularist group offered $1,000 to the highest-ranking politician in the land who would publicly proclaim no belief in God. This turned out to be Peter Stark, a Democratic congressman from the San Francisco area. He is the only congressman, of 535, who professes no belief in the Almighty.

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Debbie8 months, 4 weeks ago

Its fine if someone has a belief in something or not. But some atheists (just some) almost seem angry at the people who have chosen to believe.
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  ThKng8 months, 4 weeks ago
  
  Its not anger towards those who believe, its general disliking towards the anger towards atheism.
  But i only speak for a few, their are some people who show anger towards theists but that tends to be quite a hypocritical way of stopping their anger at us.
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    icelander8 months, 4 weeks ago
    
    I'd add that what theists see as anger is actually a simple questioning of the myths all religions are based on. Any psychologist will tell you that a delusional patient will get angry when you start poking holes in their delusion.
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  icelander8 months, 4 weeks ago
  
  Too many atheists base their lack of belief not on a positive identification with reason and science, but on some sort of harm done to themselves or others by people of faith.
  Don't get me wrong, religion has done and is doing horrible things, but I agree with Michael Shermer when he says that atheist activism has to be based on positive affirmations and not attacks on the opposing side.
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ThKng8 months, 4 weeks ago

I find it rather sad that people put more faith in religon than in humanity. faith/religon is a way people think. some people need religon other dont. the fact that its considered ok to force religon on anyone and judging a person by their belief is considered ok is somewhat uneasy...

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SonOfTheMask8 months, 4 weeks ago

Duplicate story. Bkumm posted this story earlier today and titled it "Atheists in America".
http://politics.propeller.com/story/2007/12/11/...
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