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Sally Ride Takes Her Final Flight
fructose writes "Sally Ride, America's first woman in space died today at age 61. She succumbed to pancreatic cancer according to her office in San Diego. Here's to wishing her a safe trip on her final journey."
tolerance of superstition is not tolerance.
when you are dead you are dead. there isn't any 'safe trip' about it.
let the myth of afterlife 'die' already!
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the world is a shit-hole. animals feed on each other in order to survive. feed on each other in severe pain
you think a kind and wonderful designer came up with this?
now, I'm a carnivore, don't get me wrong. but I do see something horribly wrong with the notion that some infinitely smart and powerful being came up with this idea as his 'best attempt'.
life, as we know it and can see it, is all the proof one needs that there can't be a benevolent designer.
"oh, but you don't know all the details!"
bullshit answer. no designer worth anything would have 'designed' this world as it is.
I'm constantly amazed that people can suspend actual thinking when it comes to the notion of gods.
btw, you don't know shit about what comes after. stop acting like you know something. you don't. you're fooled and your emotions won't let your reasoning thru. its really just that simple. remove the handicap and you'll see things as they are. sans gods, demons, fairies and witches.
and while I'm on the subject, why believe in some of those and not others? I have as much 'proof' of demons and witches as you have of your favorite god story.
One last thing. Young Sir, after you die, get ready for a surprise!
stupid sheep.
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Anti-theists* are among the most anti-social, impolite and negative people I have seen. This, for me, indicates that their position does not hold.
When a theory is true, it tends to gain acceptance as people think about it and realizes the truth.
But when you want people to believe in your false theory, the best strategy is to institute hatred in them; make them hate the non-believers, make them reject alternative theories without the smallest consideration.
The more anti-social and impolite the anti-theists are, the more their cause proves to be wrong.
*There is a difference betwenn "I don't believe in God", and "I hate the belief in God", which became more common after people started idolizing Ruchard Dawkins. Richard Dawkins is not just an atheist, he is an anti-theist.