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Permalink Reply by Snowcrash on February 12, 2011 at 7:26am

I would have tanked the gas then went inside and told the attendant that i was an atheist and that i would never leave because there are so many christians still to de-convert.

BTW do i still have to pay for the gas ? :)

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Permalink Reply by Thew on February 12, 2011 at 8:32am

I've officially just signed my first petition! I come from the GA/SC line, and I completely understand your feelings.

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Permalink Reply by Steve M on February 12, 2011 at 2:52pm

I originally lived in NJ for the first forty years of my life. The past 13 have been in NC. It is definitely a  culture shock when people act like the gas station owner above because there never seems to be any push back here. It is just accepted. So while the fundies might be in the minority their attitudes pervade society at large as to what is acceptable behavior.

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Permalink Reply by Reg The Fronkey Farmer on February 12, 2011 at 9:42am

Once they get to heaven they will have a place to themselves. Surely they can wait for that. Maybe we are here to test them.

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Permalink Reply by kamana kapu on February 12, 2011 at 11:45am

Prior to the coming of the gun-toting white men to this continent this was the land of the free, the home of the brave, with liberty and justice for all.  It should be noted that whereas the natives did worship (feminine) Spirit they did not have a (male) god.  But everyone was entitled to worship whomever and whatever one wished PROVIDED! that you did not attempt to impose your beliefs upon others or try to induce others to believe as you did.  The white (christian) men didn't see it that way.  They claimed it was their 'duty' to convert the pagan's to christianity.  But when they tried to bully the natives into 'believing' the natives knocked them on their ass.  So the christians had to back off christianizing the natives and concentrated on converting the people who were already christians to switch to their particular sect.

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Permalink Reply by mvitaminx on February 12, 2011 at 3:12pm

Are you being serious?

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Permalink Reply by Tom Holm on May 28, 2012 at 11:10pm

Maybe its time we non believers start knocking some christians on their asses

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Permalink Reply by futilethewinds on April 17, 2013 at 9:36am

Um, actually, the Christians killed the shit out of the Native Americans and relocated the rest. Many Native American children were taken from their families and reeducated by the white men. So they weren't exactly knocked on their asses.

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Permalink Reply by scLovely on February 12, 2011 at 2:21pm

Thank you guys so much for signing my petition! Maybe someone should start one telling BP to make this station owner pull the message off of the pumps. Idk. It's probably a hopeless battle. At least I know that there are people out there that care about what has happened to this poor dog, even if there are some ignorant people around here that defend that heartless woman . It shows me how far behind my state is on serious issues. God is their number one priority, if not their only priority. Education and civil rights don't even make the list for most of them.

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Permalink Reply by Spencer on February 12, 2011 at 2:26pm

Well, to be honest I wouldn't mind... I like Europe far better and my entire family on my father's side lives in Holland. A lot of the religious people I've met there so far are either very casual or just upholding some of the kinder traditions of their religions, rather than actually believing in it. I'd be fine with religion here being like that, but everyone takes it so literally.

 

...I secretly wish that there's a tiny shred of consciousness remaining for just a little while after death, enough to let theists know that they're actually dead and not in heaven/hell. Unfortunately, that's relatively impossible, and they'll go to their graves still feeling smug about their delusion.

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Permalink Reply by Snowcrash on February 13, 2011 at 9:04am

Isn't it funny that the founding fathers fled Europe because of the influence of religion only to found a country that got more religious by the years and that europe's religion declined sharply.

I'm from the Netherlands btw  and yup, people here are very casual about religion , no one talks about it in public really.

There is a growing movement to resist islam though, not because we hate muslims but we do hate their ideology that they are trying to get special treatment for, we just managed to diminish the christian influence and now some other religion wants to fill that space ? i don't think so.

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Permalink Reply by Reggie on February 13, 2011 at 9:57am

Isn't it funny that the founding fathers fled Europe because of the influence of religion only to found a country that got more religious by the years and that europe's religion declined sharply.

 

I think you are confusing the Founding Fathers of the United States with the Pilgrim Fathers that established the Plymouth Colony.  There are about 100 years between the two eras.

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