We're here because we have something to say and we're no longer afraid to say it

[Termin]

 Sorry if this video has already been posted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6PPk2NOQXs

[Munch]

I think it has been, urm...

Ah, here we go
http://atheistforums.com/index.php?topic=7999.0

[Termin]

 Gosh Darwinist

   No more late nights at the pub for me.

[Baruch]

Fear is the mind-killer.  I am not afraid ... and I believe in giant sand worms ;-)

[AllPurposeAtheist]

I'm not afraid to say that the grass in my backyard is green goshdarnit!

[doorknob]

I'm not afraid to say fuck off to all the churches and christians that fought to stop birth control from being covered by health insurances. Don't like abortion well then why not try to promote the most successful thing to prevent it because abstinence works.

[SGOS]

They sound like being forced to look at their own bigotry for the first time is mildly traumatic for them. 

"I'm not afraid to be different.  I'm not ashamed."  Doeth thou protest too much?  Or is this just the process of coming to terms with the reality you live in?  Jiminy Cricket!  These people need to get out of their cloistered church environment, and start interacting with the rest of the world. 

But I get it.  How many times in my younger days was I surprised, sometimes even floored that people disagreed with me?  But you go on with your life.  It's never the end of the world.

Meanwhile, a clerk of court has been told by the governor of Kentucky to do his job and issue marriage licenses to gays, or step down, and he's protesting.  Usually, when someone refuses to do their job, they get fired. Why would anyone think they should be entitled to get paid for refusing to do their job?

[GSOgymrat]

"You're not alone." No kidding. Where I live they are the majority.

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[Solitary]

Whatever happen to live and let live?

[Mike Cl]

Whatever happen to live and let live?

When has that ever been a christian consideration?  This is the christian motto: Kill them all and let god sort them out.

[Munch]

When has that ever been a christian consideration?  This is the christian motto: Kill them all and let god sort them out.

that and "convert to our way of thinking, or die!"

[Baruch]

Mike CL ... do you know where in history that specific quote comes from?  "kill them all, let god sort it out" ... is what the Papal legate (ambassador) said during the siege of Beziers in July 21, 1209 ... during the opening of the Albigensian Crusade in S France.  He was asked if the population of the city was both orthodox and heretic ... how can be know who to slay?  And that was his famous response.  Other slaughters had other reasons ... though generally if you resisted siege at all, your life was pretty much forfeit ... as it was at the Alamo.  The siege of Beziers was rather brief ... but the Papacy and the King of France (not all of what is now called France today, just the northern part was called France 800 years ago) needed to "make an example for the others" ... another famous phrase.  This was also an example of "let slip the dogs of war" ... which were feral youth, not unlike ISIS today.  The feral youth who were part of the camp followers, were allowed to participate in the slaughter, which left no human in Beziers alive.

[Mike Cl]

Mike CL ... do you know where in history that specific quote comes from?  "kill them all, let god sort it out" ... is what the Papal legate (ambassador) said during the siege of Beziers in July 21, 1209 ... during the opening of the Albigensian Crusade in S France.  He was asked if the population of the city was both orthodox and heretic ... how can be know who to slay?  And that was his famous response.  Other slaughters had other reasons ... though generally if you resisted siege at all, your life was pretty much forfeit ... as it was at the Alamo.  The siege of Beziers was rather brief ... but the Papacy and the King of France (not all of what is now called France today, just the northern part was called France 800 years ago) needed to "make an example for the others" ... another famous phrase.  This was also an example of "let slip the dogs of war" ... which were feral youth, not unlike ISIS today.  The feral youth who were part of the camp followers, were allowed to participate in the slaughter, which left no human in Beziers alive.

Yeah--I had remembered that it was the Pope's clash with the Cathars and in a church/cathedral in Southern France.  At least that is how I remembered it.  And why I called it the christian motto--seems they liked to follow it (if not say it) from the very beginning of that evil religion.

[Baruch]

Constantine was a violent general and politician.  To his discredit ... he divorced his first wife to gain a more political marriage.  This second wife lied about his son by his first wife, and he executed him.  When he found out he had made a mistake, he had his second wife boiled alive.  And his brother in law ... was a competing general/emperor.  After he managed to defeat his brother in law and force him into retirement ... he took precautions to have him murdered.  His dynasty quickly imploded into political murder and civil war within a few decades.  It was his non-relative successor, Theodosius, who outlawed paganism completely ... and outlawed Judaism as well.  So politics and religion don't mix ... unless religion lets itself be fatally compromised.

[PickelledEggs]

Fear is the mind-killer.  I am not afraid ... and I believe in giant sand worms ;-)

Beetlejuice?