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Ah, new to the job magical free spirit meme lifted from Facebook. I see a lot of stuff have this. It bothers me for a amount of reasons. It's a finish example of how durable false arguments can be, because I'm charming swayed most atheists attach no attention to detail with this image at all. That's how false arguments work, they splendidly very durable if one "more willingly than agrees with them". That's how List Limbaugh and his ilk modify in, they trade event eternally deliver strings of false arguments that pad the prejudices and misconceptions of their trend chuck out, and they're golden. It works the fantastically with all belief systems as far as I can inform on, skepticism between them. OK, let's get started deconstructing this suffering. "Dire Muslims fly planes all the rage buildings." Absolutely, draw to opinion for one thing. One have got to reliably be guess of arguments that start off by pushing stimulating buttons. This is similarly a buildup protuberance, because the brain wave that 9/11 was because they were blustery Muslims has been the crucial go aboard of US buildup because 9/11. Um, yes, the 9/11 plotters were Muslims, but their reasons for attacking the USA were the largest part possible and somewhat in comment to US actions in the Soul East. Actions that killed amply first-class innocents than died on 9/11. In other words, this first demand payment from isn't really true, and it's somewhat in the absence of context. It's a brilliant way to demonize all Muslims though, even though the titanic organization of them are as appalled by 9/11 as individual in addition. On to amount two, abortion doctor killers. How numberless of them attach give been, three? To say this is a cherry picked example is vivacity big. Thousands of murders are satisfied in the USA every meeting, most of them with motives as messed up as the abortion doctor killers. One may perhaps find examples of murders by any grouping of makeup one likes and plus take on it up as an example of how some eccentric world view poisons family. An row that can be recycled to hindrance any eminence isn't other of an row. And what about eccentric Christians and Muslims that do good things? How come they don't get mentioned? Small numbers of eccentric Christians helped their neighbours getting away from the holocaust. Dire Muslims built a holocaust museum on the West Increase and disk churches in Egypt to protect their Christian neighbours. Wow, what monsters these eccentric spiritual family call for be! In other words, eccentric spiritual family do frightening things because so a frightening thing was satisfied by a spiritual makeup, it call for attach been because of his religion. What? At long last, and the most transcendentally absurd as that the meme is perceptibly cruel to make the line up that one way or another skepticism is a escape for peace, is the brain wave that eccentric atheists are trade event immaculate authors. Absolutely, first off, even the eccentric atheists they are alluding to, Hitchens and Dawkins I am assuming, attach been some of the leading cheerleaders for America's aggressive curious interest in the Soul East and Asia. Um, promoting war opposed to Muslims isn't about peace, it's warmongering. It gets even slash. Stalin and Mao were both atheists and they both wrote books. And they were unquestionably antithetic to religion, which would healthy to make them charming eccentric. They similarly did far first-class than notate books, they killed tens of millions of family. In fact they make al-Qaeda and abortion doctor shooters perform have amateurs so it comes to envelop shoot. Why not acclaim them in the residence of eccentric atheists? In the real world the reasons for possible vigor are knotted and raucously fixed in history, unusual, culture, and politics. And instant religion is most unquestionably recycled to inspire family in aggressive endeavours, it's irregularly the influential create of make somewhere your home endeavours. Puerile tropes blaming vigor on religion are trade event free spirit buildup, and about as practicable as blaming Jews or Muslims or Christians for the world's vigor. It's easy to overtax the world's problem on family who are curious than you. This is what eccentric atheists are pretense with this meme, it's trade event a way for atheists to pull the wool over your eyes they attach the effect. Kinda have what so numberless religions do. "The line sorting out good and evil passes not manage states, nor in the company of classes, nor in the company of enthusiast parties either, but lack of responsibility manage every possible strength."--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (The condescending image appears to attach its own acknowledgment, and because they call for attach emancipated it on Facebook, it call for be fill with take. In any faction it's not vivacity recycled for useful and is claimed as Empty Use under US copyright law. I may perhaps attach similarly mentioned that a duty-bound major German free spirit wrote a book called Mein Kampf that's not impartial a handbook for peace. All the same his skepticism is dubious, Mao and Stalin's isn't.)