<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">What chance do</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">they have?</span><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br>Ben Zaiboc</font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Not much.  If I were in charge, all high schools would have religion classes, which would include atheist's reasons for not believing and showing you can have a moral system without religion.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">What chance does this have?  Zilch.  Our schools are anything but open.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">bill w</font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 9:33 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 07/03/2020 06:23, BillW wrote:<br>
> I just don't think that governments of whatever nature are comparable <br>
> to small radical groups, like Hezbollah.  If there are these out there <br>
> that are fundamentally atheist I would like to know about them.  bill w<br>
<br>
I don't see how there could be. What 'unholy' book, or other set of <br>
absolute rules would they get their ideas from? What supernatural <br>
rewards or punishments would they be reacting to? Non-believers get a <br>
really bum deal when it comes to being told how they must and must not <br>
behave, dress, eat, think and beat up people who don't agree with those <br>
rules.<br>
<br>
Poor things, they have to work out their morality for themselves! No <br>
blindly following ancient scripts, no being told they aren't allowed to <br>
ask questions, no concept of 'sin', no dumb acceptance of <br>
institutionalised bigotry, no fear of eternal punishment after they <br>
cease to exist (and no questioning what that even means). What chance do <br>
they have?<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Ben Zaiboc<br>
<br>
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