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From: "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Do you condemn Hamas?
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 18:12:09 -0400
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"bitrex" <user@example.net> wrote in message news:6663837f$0$2363147$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com...
> On 6/7/2024 5:26 PM, Edward Rawde wrote:
>> "Jeroen Belleman" <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote in message news:v3vtf6$2824r$1@dont-email.me...
>>> On 6/7/24 22:35, john larkin wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 19:53:35 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
>>>> <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 6/7/24 16:49, john larkin wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Actually, Hamas makes sense. They send Jews to hell because they are
>>>>>> heretics, and send Muslims to heaven to be blessed martyrs. So for
>>>>>> Hamas, killing is always win-win.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Some kind of sense, given that there is neither heaven, nor hell.
>>>>> Religion, islam in particular, is only pernicious brainwashing.
>>>>> There is no afterlife. There is only this life. Don't waste it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jeroen Belleman
>>>>
>>>> Until you understand the origin of the universe and the nature of
>>>> consciousness, you can't know.
>>>>
>>>> Religion is human's reason to have morality. Morality leads to
>>>> enlightment and a kind, just, productive society. Where else would
>>>> morality and justice come from?
>>>>
>>>> One interpretation of religion is our collective feelings about proper
>>>> behavior to others. Obviously, there are different religions with,
>>>> possibly, genetic components.
>>>>
>>>> In my personal experience, religious people are nicer than atheists.
>>>>
>>>> Better cooks too.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oh! That's nonsense. Religion is a human invention, much like
>>> father Christmas and the tooth fairy. The difference is that
>>> many people never get over it.
>>>
>>> Religion has no right to claim to be the source of morality!
>>> Morality stems from a desire to cooperate to our mutual benefit.
>>> Religion never even comes into it.
>>>
>>> I see no clear tendency of religious people to be nicer. I've
>>> seen quite a few who were real bastards.
>>
>> That's pretty much my experience too.
>
>
> Come to New England

Already lived there on two different occasions for a total of about six years.

> you'll meet a different cut of conservative, who has no need for God or the Bible to explain why they think women shouldn't vote 
> or homosexuals should be hung. "I just don't like the fuckers."
>
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