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"Where is the design and analysis, where is the small-scale working model, where is the prototype, where is the incremental build up, where are the TEST RESULTS????? I mean come on people! Committing to full scale production before you've seen a working model is foolish."

That's ivory-tower, intellectual, East-coast, effeminate, godless, unmanly, etc., etc., etc. thinking there, pardner. Real men act, not think, and trust in God to sort the mess out. From 2004:

"Bush's budget for next year includes $10.7 billion for missile defense—over twice as much money as for any other single weapons system. This summer, he's planning to start deploying the first components of an MD system—six anti-missile missiles in Alaska, four in California, and as many as 20 more, in locations not yet chosen, the following year. Yet, except by sheer luck, these interceptors will not be able to shoot down enemy missiles. Or, to put it more precisely, Bush is starting to deploy very expensive weapons without the slightest bit of evidence that they have any chance of working."

http://slate.msn.com/id/2097087

Get with the program. In the post-911 world, we kill'em all and let God sort them out. If they were innocent, we just sped up their trip to Heaven, and they should thank us for it. Or are you some kind of un-american godless islamo-fascist terrorist fundamentalist?

Yes, he did. He wanted to destroy religion in the Soviet Union and build an Atheist society.

Yeah, which is why he funded the Russian Orthodox Church at the time, so long as they praised him in their sermons.

Stalin didn't persecute religion for the sake of doing so. He persecuted those parts of it that were in opposition to his rule to maintain power (it just happened to be that very large parts of the Church were opposed to "godless communism"). As any other ruler, he did support his pet priests, though.

Lenin, now - this guy was really persecuting believers. For him, though, it was also a part of communist ideology as he understood it - he saw religion as a "reactionary counter-revolutionary force", so it made perfect sense to line priests up against the wall, if that's already done to other "reactionaries" (who may or may not be atheist).

Funny. Then why was Stalin declared "the divinely anointed leader of [Russia's] armed and cultural forces leading us to victory over the barbarian invasion" by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1942?

Probably because the invading Nazi's were winning support from the local populace by re-opening churches that Stalin, working with the Society of the Godless, had closed.

That's because they were trying to change blind faith in a supreme being into blind faith in communism. Trading one ideology for another.

The idea of "Atheism lessons" is ridiculous and shows a serious amount of ignorance about Atheism.

They did have 'Godless' classes, and anti-religion classes. In all cases it was about swapping Religious believe with Communists belief. Die for communism, work for communism, live for Communism.

But those are not relevant to our discussion because their beliefs had nothing to do with the cause of the murder

From wikipedia:

Stalin followed the position adopted by Lenin that religion was an opiate that needed to be removed in order to construct the ideal communist society. To this end his government promoted atheism through special atheistic education in schools, massive amounts of anti-religious propaganda, the antireligious work of public institutions (especially the Society of the Godless), discriminatory laws, and also a terror campaign against religious believers. By the late 1930s it had become dangerous to be publicly associated with religion

Godless liberal countries with universal healthcare like Canada and Finland have the best graduation rates in the world. Sorry Texas conservsatives, youre on the losing side of history.

I know you are kidding, but godless Canada? We actually have a God reference in our anthem, something the US anthem lacks.

When a system is broken, like this ultra-politicized textbook process, its justifiable to give up on it. Some people take principled stands in life. Sometimes you just need to walk away from a game that's impossible to win.

Id also walk out if a room full of fundies told me that the best compromise is "making sure to list evolution as an untested theory full of flaws and we'll consider mentioning that man and dinosaurs didnt live together, but we're not budging on Christian values forming America."

Its these bullshit compromises that have lead to the US being mocked by other western governments for its pitiful education system.

Oh well, a small percentage of them will go away to college away from their right-wing monoculture and be exposed to different ideas. Lets just ignore this headline then: Texas graduation rate worst in nation, again. Theyre up to 69.2 percent now, err, I guess thats progress.

Godless liberal countries with universal healthcare like Canada and Finland have the best graduation rates in the world. Sorry Texas conservsatives, youre on the losing side of history.

I'll speak my mind now, thumb me down I don't care: That last line from the post kicks ass.
Something uncommon for the godless Slashdot community.
Proves not all of you are bad :-P

She didn't have to say, "Have a Godless day."

What a piece of detritus she is for including that little "gem." Tsk Tsk.

I hope for the sake of her son that she finds some compassion and spiritual enlightenment. God knows she needs it.

We're expected to believe this kind of nonsense? Come on, I'm like her ex-foetus: I wasn't born yesterday.

The WTO is certainly among the lesser evils. In the old-old days, when the uber-wealthy wanted to protect their property rights, they had to hire mercenaries. It was cruel, but at least it was honest.

Later in history, the developments of religion and nationalism enabled those on top to use mere rhetoric to convince the poor to die protecting business interests. Protect the King's land from the godless invaders! Fly under the stars and stripes to defend the fruit company's interests in the banana republics!

With the advent of conscription, however, those who owned the world could merely summon slaves to make sure their property remained under their control (Korea, Vietnam).

But the Owners didn't entirely control the new phenomenon of mass media, and popular opinion turned. Slavery wasn't an option, so we tried espionage (CIA) and even old-school mercenaries (Gulf War I) to protect businesses interests .

The uber-rich aren't going to stop trying to protect "their" property, but with the Internet turning media upside-down, it will be harder than ever to get the poor to agree to conscription, crusades or even merc work. Using trade embargoes via the WTO is probably better than outright war for this purpose, so long as they don't embargo to the point of mass starvation.

(For the record: I'm not anti-capitalist. Humanity just sucks when it comes to war and money. A progressive capitalism in which you can get rich but you can't take it with you [high inheritance tax to fund education of the poor] sounds most appealing to me.)

it's about time, godless commies... Now, switch over to FOX news for the REAL story

She didn't have to say, "Have a Godless day."

Exactly. From there it stopped being about "well, it's my life and my choice" to "LOL I TROLL U MORALFAGS."

If you have the right to say "God bless you" then I have the right to say "have a Godless day" thumper-man!

She didn't have to say, "Have a Godless day."

Nor do people have to say "Have a blessed day". Same thing.

What a piece of detritus she is for including that little "gem."

Thank you for proving the point that religious people aren't as peaceful as they claim to be.

God knows she needs it.

If God doesn't exist, how can it know what she needs?

She didn't have to say, "Have a Godless day." What a piece of detritus she is for including that little "gem." Tsk Tsk. I hope for the sake of her son that she finds some compassion and spiritual enlightenment. God knows she needs it.

Communism == evil godlessness ergo capitalism == sainthood. Fuck the people who made my idea worth something. Now they are my slaves.

Right..

Nuke DC, LA and NYC.

Floyd R. Turbo,

American

I really hope that the people who get these diseases are all creationists. Don't believe in evolution? Don't want it taught to children? Have a taste of it, asshole.

I had a blog where I wrote all sorts of articles about things from computing to history to literature. Things I personally liked and all that. Pretty tame, homely blog. 20 hits on a good month, but meh, who cares. It's not like I'm Tom Friedman. Then one day I wrote a post on scientology (basically, it's hypocritical to criticise it as a religion if at the same time you're okay with all the others).

Boom! 300 page views that month. A dozen comments. Flamewars and fans.

If I'd been earning money from that blog, you bet I'd have taken a hint and continued to write things about how Obama is a commie, Glenn Beck should head an armed invasion of those baby-eating godless socialists in Europe, minorities are shifty, oil companies are conspiring against hamsters, and gays are actively plotting against our way of life every time they go Satan-worshipping on moonlit nights. Real me wouldn't stand for any of those, but real me - the regular guy who lives and lets live - doesn't sell as well.

Fox and MSNBC are more attractive investments than middle-o'-the-road CNN. The New York Times is doing all it can to survive, while the Sun and the National Enquirer sell on like it's 1970. Trash sells. I blame the man, but I also pity him. Only human, and as LotR says, the hearts of men are easily corrupted.

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