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Jefferson.by ~AAtheist

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Jefferson really had this thing about christianity. Kind of impressive considering when he lived.

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*MamaLucia Jul 19, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Indeed. One does have to wonder what all the bullying is in aid of ... :(
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~AAtheist Jul 19, 2012
It was never an attempt at getting people to believe in god, it was always about control. At heart I think that's what a lot of religion is.
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*MamaLucia Jul 19, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Why is it that so many people only feel in control when they are bullying?
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~AAtheist Jul 20, 2012
Its easier than trying to figure things out and explain it to others, especially when your position makes no sense in the first place.

When you have used your belief of god to bludgeon people into obedience you can't then turn around and "you know what, actually guys this doesn't make sense"

Terrible, but true.
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*MamaLucia Jul 20, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Too true. :( Cognitive dissonance.
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*Psycho333 Jul 17, 2012
This is AWESOME!
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~AAtheist Jul 18, 2012
Glad you like it :)
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~CorvusCorax92 Jul 17, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Nice. I don't think most people comprehend just how INCREDIBLY brave it was to make statements like this in the eighteenth century, especially as a public figure; the Age of Enlightenment wasn't *that* enlightened.
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~AAtheist Jul 17, 2012
Absolutely my feelings exactly. I wonder how people will look back on our time?
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~CorvusCorax92 Jul 17, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Good question... I often think about how future generations will almost certainly have unprecedented insight into the daily lives of the common people, (compared to what we can know today about past generations) what with archived pages of twitter, facebook, random blogs, youtube, etc. I think that might skew the perception of how our generation thought and behaved once we're long gone (and no longer able to defend ourselves, lol) in the eyes of people centuries from now, but I imagine our religious and scientific debates will be most interesting, and probably quite entertaining, as they make fun of us for being totally ignorant of the nature of 96% of the universe, meanwhile they're colonizing distant solar systems. :)

Of course, I just hope that there will even *be* future generations in the first place, given the apparent determination of a good portion of humanity to destroy any chance of that.
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