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‘We Are Stronger’: Atheists To Hold Massive Rally On National Mall Next Month
washington.cbslocal.com ^ | February 17, 2012 1:39 P | By Candice Leigh Helfand

Posted on 02/17/2012 6:08:44 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U

WASHINGTON, D.C. (CBSDC) – Thousands of atheists are expected to attend the Reason Rally next month in Washington, D.C., an event that organizers hope will unify a large part of the secular community.

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To: nascarnation

I know, but isn’t that photo impressive? lol


21 posted on 02/17/2012 6:28:19 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (NOT VOTING gets 0bamao re-elected. 0bamao's ANTI-TRUTH & SPIN TEAM is again on the move.)
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To: TribalPrincess2U
"an event that organizers hope will unify a large part of the secular community"

If they were really "secular," they would not care so much. These are very religious people.

22 posted on 02/17/2012 6:28:36 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (Don't nuke me, bro)
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To: cradle of freedom

I like it.

Another Soros.....ummm...movement.

Now, flush.


23 posted on 02/17/2012 6:30:04 PM PST by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: Westbrook

I like it....I like it a lot.

Love that commercial.


24 posted on 02/17/2012 6:30:10 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (NOT VOTING gets 0bamao re-elected. 0bamao's ANTI-TRUTH & SPIN TEAM is again on the move.)
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To: CatherineofAragon
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

-CS Lewis.
25 posted on 02/17/2012 6:30:25 PM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: cripplecreek
Stronger than what?

The stench they emanate. It was the "Occupy" hallmark.

26 posted on 02/17/2012 6:32:00 PM PST by liberalh8ter (Obama - The United Nation's first U.S. Presidential Candidate)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

It says ‘with participants in another rally.’

But what rally. Tea Party?


27 posted on 02/17/2012 6:33:12 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (NOT VOTING gets 0bamao re-elected. 0bamao's ANTI-TRUTH & SPIN TEAM is again on the move.)
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To: TribalPrincess2U
The worst thing about being stationed at Marine Corps Base Quantico was that every time family or friends would visit they would insist on visiting the cesspool that is Washington, DC.

Every visit to the open sewer would expose us to a gay pride circus or anti- whatever extravaganza. Now I live a comfortable 500 miles away and wouldn't care if a 10.0 earthquake flushed the entire place.

28 posted on 02/17/2012 6:35:12 PM PST by ArchAngel1983 (Arch Angel- on guard / Wenn Sie etwas sehen, sagen Sie etwas!)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

"Nothing comes from nothing. Nothing ever could."


29 posted on 02/17/2012 6:36:10 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (I wouldnÂ’t vote for Romney for dog catcher if he was in a three way race against Lenin and Marx!)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

no, because if it rains and no one shows up, they’ll blame the rain for the low turnout.

But of course when 100 thousand pro lifers show up in the cold and snow, they don’t get much coverage...


30 posted on 02/17/2012 6:37:31 PM PST by LadyDoc
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To: DemforBush
"...thinking they’ve struck a blow against some imagined theocratic threat."

Yep,unfortunately there's nothing imaginary about the theocracy they are actually encouraging.

"And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." (Rev 13:7-8)

"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools" (Romans 1:22)

31 posted on 02/17/2012 6:38:23 PM PST by mitch5501 ("make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things ye shall never fall")
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To: Westbrook

When you die either you enter into an eternal dreamless sleep or the adventure continues. What do you prefer????


32 posted on 02/17/2012 6:39:35 PM PST by jesseam
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To: TribalPrincess2U

What recession?
What economic collapse?
What spiking taxes, energy, food costs?

Everything is fine here in Liberal Land.

You little people need to stop crying and pay your taxes. Your government is broke.


33 posted on 02/17/2012 6:39:43 PM PST by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: Westbrook

You left out my favorite, “Just Be Good.”.

(Why? As long as you don’t get caught, it’s all the same. In a godless world the soup-kitchen philanthropist is no morally different from the guy with kids chained up in his basement. And—to get into C.S. Lewis a bit—what is this “good” that you speak of? In a world without God, nothing is transcendent, so the definition of “good” changes with whoever is boss this week.)


34 posted on 02/17/2012 6:41:13 PM PST by denydenydeny (The more a system is all about equality in theory the more it's an aristocracy in practice.)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

I guess they don’t see the irony in their organizing.


35 posted on 02/17/2012 6:49:20 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

A rally to celebrate belief in nothing. Should be a real whizz-bang event.


36 posted on 02/17/2012 6:52:01 PM PST by Antoninus (Mitt Romney -- attempting to execute a hostile take-over of the Republican Party.)
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To: denydenydeny

Interesting line I saw in a movie this afternoon (Pandorum)

The main villan said that he had broken the chains of morality and how freeing it was. In reality he had spent nearly a thousand years in a couple rooms of a space ship full of cannibals (resulting from him playing God) at the bottom of an ocean.


37 posted on 02/17/2012 6:52:52 PM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: cripplecreek

Good quote (I am a big fan of Clive Staples)


38 posted on 02/17/2012 6:54:09 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: TribalPrincess2U
The website for the event states that organizers aim to encourage participants to claim their identity as what they call “secular Americans,” to dispel stereotypes, and to rally for legislative equality.

David Silverman, a chair for the Reason Rally Coalition and president of American Atheists, said that participants are motivated by positivity.

“We’re not going there to complain, we’re not going there to fight,” he told CBSDC. “[We want to] celebrate the fact that we are growing, we are stronger, and we are taking our place in American society.”

This is nutty. Atheists claiming ownership of reason. They can no more prove the non existence of God than clerics can prove His existence. It's a matter of belief, faith. The atheists are not the standard for secular. They are attempting to impose their belief on others. When will theists start beating them with this argument instead of retreating as they get beaten in the courts using a fake argument of separation of church and state.

39 posted on 02/17/2012 6:58:02 PM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Very interesting. I did a Bing search, and then a google search, looking for a photo of stupid atheist protestors. I used “atheist protestor photos” as my search term.

What I discovered is that both Bing and Google are strongly biased toward the atheists. I turned up plenty of cartoons mocking Christians, and plenty of atheist sites saying how very nice and kind atheists are. But not a single photo showing atheists in their true colors. Not one.

It’s hard to see how I could get such a result unless both Bing and Google rigged their search engines to show atheists only in a good light, and Christians in a bad one.


40 posted on 02/17/2012 7:02:30 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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