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Warpy

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3. The first outspoken atheist I ever knew was a Palestinian Arab kid in high school
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 02:37 PM
Jun 2014

and he paid the price in that sea of Southern Baptists. He was welcomed into my clique of smart and slightly dangerous misfits because easily half of us were atheists.

The slightly dangerous part is important because when he went home, he ended up in Black September. He's an old man now and if he's alive, he's probably still blowing stuff up. He's just not doing it for some god, he's doing it so he can get his grandpa's olive grove back.

However, I've found it to be a much shorter step for Muslims, their god is both unknowable and impersonal. It's not a god in a box they can take out to perform on request, unlike the utterly ridiculous notions fundy Christers have.




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