Atheism?
POSTED BY: yinyang
UPDATED: Monday, January 13, 2025 18:37
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Transcript from here (near the bottom): http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/31/pzn.01.html
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HUNTER: They don't have a good - marketing. If they had hallmark cards, maybe they wouldn't feel so left out. We have Christmas cards. We have Kwanza cards now. Maybe they need to get some atheist cards and get that whole ball rolling so more people can get involved with what they're doing. I think they need to shut up and let people do what they do. No, I think they need to shut up about it.
SMITH: I don't think they need to shut up. The reason why I don't think they need to shut up is because there's a whole bunch of people in this world that we can look at and say they need to shut up and they certainly don't. You got everybody fighting for their own individual cause. This is their cause. We might not like it. I don't agree with it at all, but they do have a right.
HUNTER: I think they need to shut up about crying wolf all the time and saying that they're being imposed upon. I personally think that they should never have taken prayer out of schools. I would rather there be some morality in schools. But they did that because an atheist went to court and said their child -- don't pray (INAUDIBLE).
SCHLUSSEL: And what about this obnoxious Michael Newdow, who went all the way to the Supreme Court for his child, the child doesn't know what's going on, to try and get under God taken out of the pledge of allegiance. They are on the attack. It's obnoxious and they do need to shut up.
SMITH: They are going on the attack, but the reality, again, is everybody has their own cause. The fact is there's a whole bunch of people in America who need to shut up and they don't. So why should these people be any less. We live in a nation. We're supposed to be tolerant. We're supposed to be accepting of other people's viewpoints, even when they are not our own and the fact is, if they're an atheist, that's their right. They're not going to change my belief in God (INAUDIBLE).
ZAHN: What I find so interesting is when you look at the statistics, that they were the most hated of all the minorities, gays (INAUDIBLE).
SMITH: I'm not even willing to believe that. That's news to me. I heard that, I read that, I just don't believe it.
HUNTER: You can't pick an atheist out of a crowd.
ZAHN: Can you explain to me where you feel the assault? When 97 percent of the folks in this country claim to worship some kind of God, the 1 to 3 percent of this population that doesn't believe in God, who are they hurting?
HUNTER: Eight to 12 percent. (INAUDIBLE) They're not hurting anyone. I personally don't have a problem with an atheist. Believe or don't believe what you want. Don't impose upon my right to want to have prayer in schools, to want to say the pledge of allegiance, to want to honor my God. Don't infringe upon that right.
SMITH: When they want to take - when they want to take God out of the pledge of allegiance or whatever, this is what I'm saying. They're saying, OK, that's Christian. What if you're a Muslim? What if you're someone of a different belief?
SCHLUSSEL: This is a Christian country.
SMITH: I understand that, but what they're saying is how can -- if we're inclusionary, why can't we include all that and we're not. That's my point.
SCHLUSSEL: (INAUDIBLE) Look where there are more atheists and where they've lost God, where the church is not that strong. Europe is becoming Islamist. It's fast falling and intolerance is increasing. That's the one reason our country has not become like Europe because we have strong Christians and because atheists are not strong. And I think that's a good thing.
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God help us? Is The View the new acme of television commentary? Get a few obnoxious people together and listen to them bicker and cut each other off? Who are these people? Hey, I've got a great idea, let's listen to how much b.s. people have clogging their minds! 
HKCavalier
Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
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those women are crazy. when we're talking about God and government, and the whole seperation of church and state, we should try to look at it objectively and form a consenses about what, if any religion, government DOES endorse(in the event that the 'seperation' is infringed upon). i would be willing to make the case that very few instances refer to the christian God(yhwy), but to the gods() of masonry(which 33rd degree Mason albert PIke will tell you is Lucifer). actually, washington DC, and numerous other sites around the US all share these same masonic, esoteric undertones.. so its a wonder to me why these examples are never brought up(although i think i know- its that people generally dont recognize the meaning of the symbolism)
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HK: hahahahaha!!
As a non-beliver myself, I find this kind of intolerance morbid and creepifying.
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Reality sucks. Especially when it contradicts our cherished ideas.
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scary stuff 
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"I'm an artist, with an e and a beret."
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The ESPN analyst made the most sense. What does that tell you?
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
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I agree that The View is babbling idiotic dribble most of the time, but this transcript is actualy from Paula Zahn Now, not The View.
Apologies if you all knew that.
Anywho...tolerance demands that we let athiests be atheists and christians be christians and so on...it shouldn't bother an atheist if they mention "god" in anything.
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SCHLUSSEL: This is a Christian country.
Well, there's your problem right there.
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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Quote:Or in other words "I've never been to Europe and I've never met an Atheist except when me and my fellow fundementalists were organising a mob to kill one of them".
Originally posted by yinyang:
SCHLUSSEL: (INAUDIBLE) Look where there are more atheists and where they've lost God, where the church is not that strong. Europe is becoming Islamist. It's fast falling and intolerance is increasing. That's the one reason our country has not become like Europe because we have strong Christians and because atheists are not strong. And I think that's a good thing.
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
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Originally posted by Geezer:Quote:
SCHLUSSEL: This is a Christian country.
Well, there's your problem right there.
"Keep the Shiny side up"
That certainly is the problem , right there. No, it ain't a Christian nation. Never was. I thought that one had been so thoroughly debunked that no one would use it anywhere anymore.
Anything that person says after that point is tainted with absolute non-factuality.
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