On 13 Jan, 16:22, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote:
> Point taken, I would say my intention was to explore the possibility
> of a country run without religious influence. I guess that would be a
> country run by Brights.
>
They'd have to do away with 'In God We Trust' on the currency, for
sure.
> On Jan 13, 7:35 am, "Ian Pollard" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > 2009/1/13 Slip Disc <[email protected]>
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> > > They CAN'T proselytize without, first, logically, declaring
> > > themselves a religion. < Pat
>
> > > Really, though, it is a "Non-Religion". Atheism just needs to be
> > > recognized as such. Would a country be better run by a administration
> > > comprised completely of Atheists or would it present a condition of
> > > reverse bias?
>
> > You cannot infer anything about a country run by atheists since the
> > collective term is meaningless in this context. It's like saying "imagine a
> > country run exclusively by people who like tea".
>
> > Philosophically there's no central, unifying, goal shared by people who like
> > tea.
>
> > Ian- Hide quoted text -
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