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benlehman ([personal profile] benlehman) wrote2008-05-02 05:45 pm

Attention Atheists

Attention atheists who say "atheists don't do horrible things in the name of their religion."

Please go read a book about the cultural revolution.

[identity profile] wickedthought.livejournal.com 2008-05-04 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Just to be clear, did you mean to type "There are suicide attacks that are unrelated to religious extremism?" Because I think that first sentence is a typo.

[identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com 2008-05-04 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Allow me to clarify:

The presence or absence of religious extremism does not appear to be correlated to the presence or absence of suicide attacks.

Happy?

yrs--
--Ben

[identity profile] wickedthought.livejournal.com 2008-05-04 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. :)

All of this is stuff we can talk about, but my primary concern about your post was qualifying atheism as a religion. I'm glad we sorted that out. We should talk more at GenCon (this kind of format really isn't appropriate for this kind of discussion--as evidenced by the 40 or so posts we went through to clear up a single semantic point).