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AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
Thu Apr 2, 2015, 03:08 PM Apr 2015

It's really come down to this.

It's about using religion as a weapon to hurt people you don't like. You can tell by the transparent excuses they are using to defend it.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/penn-jillette-to-cnn-guest-defending-religious-freedom-laws-no-one-is-being-asked-to-have-gay-sex/

(Jillette is a hyper-libertarian in the Ron Paul vein of 'don't enforce Title II of the '64 CRA' variety, but he still lands some solid hits in this interview, plus, the ACLU, so good stuff.)


Every deflection trick in the book. Won't address specific criteria, won't answer the question, talks over the other guests, I lost count of how many times she uses the prefix 'This great nation'.

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It's really come down to this. (Original Post) AtheistCrusader Apr 2015 OP
I disagree that it has "come to this." It's always been this way. cleanhippie Apr 2015 #1
Well, their defensive arguments have come down to this, but yes. AtheistCrusader Apr 2015 #3
Very true. cleanhippie Apr 2015 #6
True, but I would extend it TexasTowelie Apr 2015 #2
That fundy just couldn't go off script. Promethean Apr 2015 #4
I doubt she's even a fundy. AtheistCrusader Apr 2015 #5

cleanhippie

(19,705 posts)
1. I disagree that it has "come to this." It's always been this way.
Thu Apr 2, 2015, 03:11 PM
Apr 2015

Whenever someone attempts to use their religion as the basis for their argument, hurting others they don't like has always been the outcome.


Same shit, different pile.

TexasTowelie

(112,237 posts)
2. True, but I would extend it
Thu Apr 2, 2015, 03:21 PM
Apr 2015

to using religion as a weapon to hurt people you don't know. (I mean the generic "you", not you specifically Atheist Crusader)

Promethean

(468 posts)
4. That fundy just couldn't go off script.
Thu Apr 2, 2015, 03:46 PM
Apr 2015

When asked a question she just launched into a scripted rant. When straight up told she wasn't answering the question she just continued on her scripted rant. Zero thought there.

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