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Bill McBlueState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 09:22 AM
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You know, if an open atheist ever *does* run for President...
An atheist would have at least one built-in advantage. Nobody could ever tar you for associating with the wrong kind of religious nutjob. There'd be no John Hagee or Jeremiah Wright to worry about. Future Presidential candidates should learn something from these episodes and stop going to church *now* instead of later.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 09:41 AM
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1. Well there are other kinds of nutjobs
Theoretically, if you were an atheist candidate for President would you wanted to be associated with Christopher Hitchens?
One doesn't need to go to Church to be associated with crazy people.
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moggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 09:45 AM
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2. You would know!
Don't you hang out with Stalin and Pol Pot?
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 12:42 PM
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3. And Mao!
Don't forget my favorite friend!
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moggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 12:59 PM
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4. Stop stalking me!
The Stalin/Pol Pot/Mao thing never gets old, does it?
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 02:41 PM
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5. I love that graphic
:rofl:

Chairman Meow indeed.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 03:54 PM
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7. No, but nobody ever remembers to lump Ayn Rand
in with such a bad lot.

Atheism doesn't confer competence or invulnerability to the guilt by association game the right wing plays. We've got baggage of our own.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-17-08 02:43 PM
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6. The RRRW would spend all of their time
trying to find out where they get their "moral values" from. After all, if they don't come from some book a person is automatically evil. :eyes:
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