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#370384
Darwin's Lil' Girl
We DO have free thought. In fact, we can all have different theories for the same thing. But it's not worth diddly if you don't have evidence to back it up. Unlike you fundies.
12/26/2007 8:47:41 PM
#370593
Me
mmmmmmmmmmmm Kay.
12/27/2007 4:58:30 AM
#370616
SSJPunk
Where do you get that thought that all religions sqash free thought? If anything, its ATHEISM and EVOLUTION that does NOT BELIEVE IN THINGS OUTSIDE THE PARAMETERS OF REALITY.
Fixed.
12/27/2007 6:12:13 AM
#463449
Return of Rob
False.
4/12/2008 6:27:44 PM
#463507
DarkfireTaimatsu
Mm-hmm, and how long have you been eating lead paint chips?
4/12/2008 7:38:37 PM
#463514
anti-nonsense
Wrong.
4/12/2008 7:44:48 PM
#463516
Viva
Caps lock junkie
4/12/2008 7:46:14 PM
#467297
Fernando
Evolution and atheism were formed thanks to free tought. Darwin was a revolution for the epoch, and still a revolution for biology.
The only thing that may parallel the influence of evolution in biology may be the discoveremnt of alien life.
PS: Sorry for my bad english ;)
4/16/2008 5:20:02 AM
#469658
Feminazi
Shut up.
4/18/2008 4:21:57 PM
#822009
HAHAHA!
12/22/2008 4:37:24 PM
#822016
Grigadil
Theories aren't "bogus" if the real experts in the field [NOT the religionist shitmongers] have not been able to refute them.
Atheism isn't a theory, it's a philosophy.
12/22/2008 4:44:15 PM
#895988
Mollyz
s/ATHEISM and EVOLUTION/CHRISTIANITY and ISLAM/
2/12/2009 5:29:08 PM
#940358
ericm6
look at his name. then think "should i listen to anything he says about evolution"
4/15/2009 3:31:59 PM
#1225738
Dr. Shrinker
"Where do you get that thought that all religions sqash free thought?"
- The Council of Nicea, which outlined a specific definition of Christianity and declared all competing variants to be "heresies."
- The suppression of the Anabaptists
- The Inquisitions
- The forced conversion of native populations in Africa, Asia and the Americas
- The persecution of Galileo
And that's just off the top of my head!
11/10/2010 4:47:34 PM
#1225744
lonedragon
Man, does this argument get old. They say "follow us, or you'll be damned to hell, follow us freethinkers!" And then, those who allow any kind of beliefs, thoughts, idea, opinions, or the like, no matter how insane they might be, are accused of being closed minded, by those who are so obviously closed minded. And, how does evolution not allow free thought? How can a scientific idea not allow a psychological response to external stimuli? The bullshit of fundamentalist christianity just gets weirder and weirder.
11/10/2010 5:07:27 PM
#1225805
Justanotheratheist
Opposite Day, again. Not changed in the slightest by the manic use of caps lock.
11/11/2010 2:44:31 AM
#1225813
Anon
>>Dr. Shrinker
"Where do you get that thought that all religions sqash free thought?"
##List of examples of Christian orthodoxy ordering persecution.##
And that's just off the top of my head! <<
In fairness, you've only given examples of abuses committed in the name of Christianity.
Not all Christians are like that, and certainly not all religious traditions. It seems to me that Buddhism and perhaps Daoism in particular actively encourage free thought (especially Zen Buddhists).
But that is probably not what ItsAboutJesus meant. And even if it were, the rest of the quote completely mis-represents atheists, atheism, scientists, and evolutionary biology.
11/11/2010 3:08:55 AM
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