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2 points

Because its not the British army or New Zealand army. on one hand the US army is superior but on the other I am biased.

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1 point

that would be freedom of religion then... if a country has freedom of religion at its core then it cannot persecute anyone for their faith or their lack of.

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he is right you know. there is no true Britons. those would be the Celts. The Anglo Saxons are the closest thing England has to an original people because they invaded and mostly killed off the poor Celts. and if you look at the paintings of the old Celts their not exactly "white" so I find it laughable when people say that all these "non-white" people are not British, as if the "white" people are themselves were. its just pure and stupid Racism.

My own family goes back to the Normans and 1066. so my family also comes from a foreign family even it is way back then. I bet you wouldn't have asked my family to go back to Normandy just because I was not one of our precious Britons, all because you clearly have a problem with Race and not religion.

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you are right on many counts. that I'll give you credit for.

I am not offended, I can see where your coming from. But before we go off and attack Islam for the faults it has today let us remember that you and I would have been burnt at the stake for our beliefs back in medieval Europe. Islam is going through a similar phase, it is unfortunate but all religions experience it. Let us not forget that in the same time we would have been burnt in Europe that in the middle east we would have been accepted. it was the Muslims not the Christians that preserved the intellectual knowledge of the ancients. when the Christians would have shunned the books for being written by pagans.

as for standing up for injustice. how about the injustice that the man was allowed to be stabbed to death by those madmen while everyone else stood around and filmed it on their phones?

Trust me I lose it in situations like that. if your scared you run, if your angry or brave you attack, I would have done either. but standing around like its some kind of spectator sport... that is shameful.

also we tried making a totally non-religious state, it was called the USSR, unfortunately that didn't work out to well. I am not saying that a non-religious state like the USSR would be wrong, the state had many positives with its negatives but to try to do the same would be to incur some unfair comparisons if you know what I mean.

you are right on many if not most of your points but I do not think Atheism is powerful enough yet to take on the injustice in this world. so many so called democracies still harbour religious ideals at their core and many have parties that are openly religious.

2 points

now your even more of my ass... I am non-religious! My father was a teacher of religious education and philosophy. we have a Koran in our house. and a bible if you need me to go read them both I could but I wont.

Hating all religions equally. is that truly a smart move? to hate someone is to encourage them to hate you. (I just made that up) so now if you really want to be hated by the majority of the worlds population, great carry on. But if because of you they start looking at us atheists as anti-religious bastards... Well your just like the terrorists. giving the rest of us a bad name for your actions.

if I offend you I do it because I do not want to have atheism dragged into the same mess as religion. I respect everyone beliefs, everyone has the right to an opinion and belief.... it is our human right. also just because I respect something does not mean I like it.

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true democracy can work... on a small scale, were talking of tribes here. but or nations you're right it can't work.

2 points

New Zealand has MMP so if you want to live in a truly democratic democracy do what our family did and move here. then realise that although your nation is truly democratic it has to answer the larger not as democratic nations in this world. :-(

our current government is terrible, and the system only works perfectly when one party does not have 51% of the vote. well their clearly not going to win the next election so no need to worry.

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Jesus is just a name given to a character. the character himself was one of the many so called messiahs at the time. He may not have been called Jesus. he was (in my opinion as an atheist) not the son of god, but he certainly did exist whoever he was.

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this man has a valid point. but I guess the people he mentions, the extremists and the racists will overlook his wisdom because that's the way they work.

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it depends on the situations. I think Christians looked pretty bad to everyone else during the crusades. the Islam will not always have this problem and reputation.

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