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> Roy Schestowitz stated in post 3992343.djRhZ6ZUK3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 7/2/11
> 12:38 AM:
>
>>>> then it should be curtailed to the extent
>>>> necessary to protect those rights. But there's a vast gulf between that
>>>> and militant atheism, which seems to be the main issue in Texas (and
>>>> elsewhere). What I see is an extremist reaction to what is largely a
>>>> non-issue. This isn't about protecting people, it's just a pretext for
>>>> eradicating an entire culture, most of which is entirely benign. They
>>>> are not slave owners, they're just people who believe in God.
>>>
>>> Citizens of South Carolina in the mid-1960s were not slave owners, either.
>>> They were just people who believed in God. And their state-approved
>>> history textbooks showcased their belief in God through what they
>>> considered the Biblically-sanctioned institution of slavery, and their
>>> struggle against a government that they believed was violating the very
>>> word of God.
>>>
>>> To those Southerners, all the things the government was doing were just a
>>> pretext for eradicating their entire culture, most of which they
>>> considered to be entirely benign.
>>
>> To this date, in YouTube, I occasionally see religious people who justify
>> slavery using the Holy Book. That helps morality in no way.
>
> I would love to see Homer's evidence that religion tends to lead to greater
> morality. I have not seen such before.
The Creationists would have presented such evidence if it existed. Go to a US prison
(about 2 million prisoners in this theistic country, or 40% of the world's prison
population, IIRC) and do a survey to see how many reject the existence of a sky daddy.
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