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I was surprised to find myself agreeing with him even if his reasons are totally different than mine. I consider myself pretty left wing which is why I would support sending aid to Iranian protesters who advocate secularism and a real democracy. I see their struggle as being the same as American secularists, only intensified. Just as American secularists fight to prevent religious law from overtaking our society, Iranian secularists fight to get rid of the religious law that has already overtaken their society.

This is the first and will probably be the only time I've ever agreed with Herman Cain and I'm wondering if anyone else agrees as well or if I'm all on my own here.

Wondering what the rest of r/atheism thinks of Sikhism. The religion was born of violence. It declared war on the Muslims of Punjab and carved a Sikh state out of the heart of the Mughal Empire. To this day, Sikhs carry around knives/swords as a symbol of the perceived requirement to defend their faith. Normally this would be bad, but the Sikh Empire was one of the most religiously tolerant nations on the planet and Sikhism is unique among religions in its acceptance and tolerance of other religious beliefs.

Of course, the Khalistan insurgency of more recent times has no justification for violence and it's just an example of religious savagery.

What do the rest of you think?

"yeah glen as you said im about tired of repeating myself as well.there is someone in charge of all this chaos any ideas...? well first let me start off by saying that all these protests, not just in our country but around the world are many, like never before! there are wars, many and talks of war many, like never before! this is no coincidence.

how can you have coincidences suchs as "these" when they were wrote many thousands of years ago.the book of enoch which was a canon from the holy bible kjv that was taken out.he was the first prophet before even moses and he predicted the things then that are happening now. i just dont see how people can refuse to see what the real story is.if y

It sickens me quite frankly. Marx was very clear on his stance when it came to religion. Everywhere religion exists it exploits and manipulates the people. How on earth can these people claim to be socialists when they defend practitioners of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, etc etc etc?

I understand that under the current US constitution we must respect the freedom of religion, but I don't understand why I keep seeing people carrying red banners in one hand and holding up a sign essentially saying "let's be liberal appeasers to these muslims, christians, and all other breed of theist"