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In All Seriousness, Will Ted Cruz Really Drive People to Atheism?
Patheos ^ | April 7, 2015 | Hemant Mehta

Posted on 04/07/2015 2:04:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Mastador1
Anyone elses Bolshevik meter peg upon reading this crap?

Oh, yeah. I think the entire story was made from whole cloth.

21 posted on 04/07/2015 3:09:40 PM PDT by TigersEye (STONE COLD ZOMBIE SCOURGE)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The future of atheism is begging for their life as Islamists are intent on cutting their throats.


22 posted on 04/07/2015 3:23:52 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: Bryanw92
“You’re stupid for believing in the magical sky fairy.” over and over again until you stop believing?

Actually I think they use this argument:

If there was a God..........................Obama!

23 posted on 04/07/2015 3:24:23 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
LOLOLOL this is one of the most funniest thread I've read today.....

Cruz is going to cause atheism....ok...LOLOLOLOL

24 posted on 04/07/2015 3:41:45 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Get the USA out of the UN then get the UN out of the USA; send bamaboy back to Kenya ASAP!!!!)
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To: bigmak007

Ho-ho-ho! Good one, but the MSM stink would be all over that one. HAHAHA.


25 posted on 04/07/2015 4:05:57 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mr Cruz is driving them crazy. For the left that isn’t a very far drive.


26 posted on 04/07/2015 4:11:43 PM PDT by Leep (To put it in laymen's terms liberal/progressive ist coo coo.)
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To: Leep
Mr Cruz is driving them crazy. For the left that isn’t a very far drive.

Not so much a drive as a putt.

27 posted on 04/07/2015 4:13:18 PM PDT by Legatus (I think, therefore you're out of your mind)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, hopefully he’ll drive liberals to suicide.


28 posted on 04/07/2015 4:35:04 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: DiogenesLamp
The future of atheism is begging for their life as Islamists are intent on cutting their throats.

And you think being a Christian saves you from that?

29 posted on 04/07/2015 5:43:30 PM PDT by sparklite2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What...the...@?!?

What is wrong with these “people”?


30 posted on 04/07/2015 6:15:06 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Atheist activists lie like rugs.


31 posted on 04/07/2015 7:59:24 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: sparklite2
And you think being a Christian saves you from that?

It is the only possible thing which can. Throughout all of European History, the only thing which saved the West from the Muslims was Christianity. You can't inspire people to fight for a non-belief. Only through a powerful belief can you achieve the Zealotry necessary to combat Zealotry.


32 posted on 04/08/2015 6:50:58 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp

An atheist soldier doesn’t fight for a nonbelief. He fights for his country.


33 posted on 04/08/2015 9:04:20 AM PDT by sparklite2
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To: sparklite2
An atheist soldier doesn’t fight for a nonbelief. He fights for his country.

We aren't communicating accurately. Muslim's are fanatics. This is not just about Atheist soldiers, it is about a societal will to fight. Atheists don't have it.

They don't take seriously the infiltration of western society by Muslims. Europe is even now being taught the folly of this mindset.

Atheists have no common foundation from which to oppose Muslim fanaticism. They are individuals scattered throughout the population with no common group or association from which to gain a common and synergistic strength. They are "lone wolfs" who have a casual disregard for the enemy as opposed to a fervent and active animosity towards it.

A Society composed of predominantly Atheists won't know what hit them before they are subsumed by instinctive human passion and need for something spiritual in which to believe. It will be like intellectuals arguing with bears.

34 posted on 04/08/2015 9:22:58 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp

Atheist soldiers don’t fight for their country. They fight for themselves. If they are in a civil union, have offspring, and feel some sort of obligation to them, then they might fight to protect them.

They’re motivation to fight isn’t necessarily more evolved than self-interest.

Of course, when they enter that fight, and they are in the foxhole, that whole ‘atheist’ thing changes to ‘agnostic’ somewhere.


35 posted on 04/08/2015 9:26:30 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: DiogenesLamp

You can’t pick up a newspaper today without reading about more Christians being slaughtered by Islamic fanatics. Atheist or other non-believers might meet a similar fate, but being Christian is certainly no prophylactic against it.


36 posted on 04/08/2015 9:34:49 AM PDT by sparklite2
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To: sparklite2
You can’t pick up a newspaper today without reading about more Christians being slaughtered by Islamic fanatics. Atheist or other non-believers might meet a similar fate, but being Christian is certainly no prophylactic against it.

This certainly applies to people who live their lives like Christians and behave the way Christ taught, but this is not the sort to which I am referring. The "Warrior" Christian mentality is what drove back the Muslims, not the pacifist variety.

That there is a cognitive dissonance between fighting and Christianity does not detract from the effectiveness of those who fight fanatically for their religious beliefs.

Sure, Christianity teaches it's adherents to "turn the other cheek" and to "go twain" if a man compels you to walk a mile, but fortunately for History, Western Christianity pretty much ignored those admonitions.

37 posted on 04/08/2015 9:43:44 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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