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Equitist Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9632 NSW	Re: Why do ALL religions brainwash little kids? Reply #120 - Jun 28^th, 2010 at 9:31pm ROFPMSL, Soren - though, if you actually watch my pseduo-Pisces avatar for more than a moment, you will see that it is flip-flopping...
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Equitist Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9632 NSW	Re: Why do ALL religions brainwash little kids? Reply #121 - Jun 28^th, 2010 at 9:33pm BTW, thanks for sharing the Les Murray poem - I have saved it for posterity...
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Soren Gold Member Offline Posts: 25654 Gender:	Re: Why do ALL religions brainwash little kids? Reply #122 - Jun 29^th, 2010 at 10:23am Equitist wrote on Jun 28^th, 2010 at 9:33pm: BTW, thanks for sharing the Les Murray poem - I have saved it for posterity... Go better, commit it to memory.
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It_is_the_Darkness Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 4000 in a ReTardis Gender:	Re: Why do ALL religions brainwash little kids? Reply #123 - Jul 10^th, 2010 at 12:30am Don't worry, I'm sure the childless Australia (only place where women are culturally paid to have children) of an ever growing Aged bracket - possibly the highest in the world, will bring an age old wisdom to a few very old and dated Religions.
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Reply #124 - Jul 29^th, 2010 at 10:33am

This is a good one from ACU's VC:

...the great advantage of designer atheism is that you get to think of yourself as immensely clever. After all, you are at least much brighter than all those dumb-asses who believe in a supreme being, such as Sister Perpetua down the road, Thomas Aquinas, Isaac Newton and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. So satisfying.

The second factor has to do with wit. For some reason, contemporary Australian atheism seems to consider itself terribly funny. Its proponents only have to wheel out one of the age-old religious libels to lose control of their bladders. To outsiders, of course, it is a bit like watching a giggling incontinent drunk at a party.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/a-plague-of-atheists-has-desce...

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Reply #125 - Jul 29^th, 2010 at 10:44am

Good article, but that particular quote only reflects the vocal atheists. As it points out, most couldn't give a damn about making fun of religions, or even promoting atheism. I like the term 'hobby atheist'

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...the great advantage of designer atheism is that you get to think of yourself as immensely clever.

It's a bit like the Emperor's new clothes.

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mozzaok Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 6741 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Why do ALL religions brainwash little kids? Reply #126 - Jul 29^th, 2010 at 10:44am If religion promises to leave kids alone, I will promise to leave religion alone, I can't say fairer than that, can I? The great religious thinkers of the past are all dead, I wonder where they are?
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Reply #127 - Jul 29^th, 2010 at 10:49am

mozzaok wrote on Jul 29^th, 2010 at 10:44am:

If religion promises to leave kids alone, I will promise to leave religion alone, I can't say fairer than that, can I?

The great religious thinkers of the past are all dead, I wonder where they are?

If you leave kids alone totally, they don't develop. I don't have much of a problem with the way religions are taught at most schools these days. They tend to teach them about all religions, even at Catholic Schools. I don't know if they are representative or not.

Here is a very apt extract from one of the readers' comments on that article:

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We ought to take heed of these words from the highly respected atheist philosopher Kai Neilson: "I know plenty of neurotic and fanatical Christians, and I know plenty of neurotic and fanatical atheists. One of the reasons I don't like going around to little humanist societies is that it seems to me that many of them are just the reverse side of sectarian Christianity. I've also known many sane and sensible atheists and many sane and sensible Christians. I think it would be very hard to tell which group is the more neurotic."

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