Father Flannigan whined interminably, in the atheist manner:
> One thing for sure, the Bible wasn't a history book.
So where is the atheist history?
Oh that's right, atheists have nothing to write about for millennia,
while theists create great and enduring civilisations, then
there are the 20th century atheist regimes, which no atheists can
even bear to talk about.. then obscurity and irrelevance again in the
modern era, where you all live in the free, open, progressive, tolerant,
scientifically advanced, secular democracies built by majority religious
societies, and whine about it! B^D
pffffffft!
No wonder you spend your lives arguing with creationists and bitching
about Jesus!
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA
The Men Who Come Behind
by Henry Lawson
There's a class of men (and women) who are always on their guard�
Cunning, treacherous, suspicious�feeling softly�grasping hard�
Brainy, yet without the courage to forsake the beaten track�
Cautiously they feel their way behind a bolder spirit�s back.
If you save a bit of money, and you start a little store�
Say, an oyster-shop, for instance, where there wasn�t one before�
When the shop begins to pay you, and the rent is off your mind,
You will see another started by a chap that comes behind.
So it is, and so it might have been, my friend, with me and you�
When a friend of both and neither interferes between the two;
They will fight like fiends, forgetting in their passion mad and blind,
That the row is mostly started by the folk who come behind.
They will stick to you like sin will, while your money comes and goes,
But they�ll leave you when you haven�t got a shilling in your clothes.
You may get some help above you, but you�ll nearly always find
That you cannot get assistance from the men who come behind.
There are many, far too many, in the world of prose and rhyme,
Always looking for another�s �footsteps on the sands of time.�
Journalistic imitators are the meanest of mankind;
And the grandest themes are hackneyed by the pens that come behind.
If you strike a novel subject, write it up, and do not fail,
They will rhyme and prose about it till your very own is stale,
As they raved about the region that the wattle-boughs perfume
Till the reader cursed the bushman and the stink of wattle-bloom.
They will follow in your footsteps while you�re groping for the light ;
But they�ll run to get before you when they see you�re going right;
And they�ll trip you up and baulk you in their blind and greedy heat,
Like a stupid pup that hasn�t learned to trail behind your feet.
Take your loads of sin and sorrow on more energetic backs!
Go and strike across the country where there are not any tracks!
And�we fancy that the subject could be further treated here,
But we�ll leave it to be hackneyed by the fellows in the rear.
No wonder prominent atheists, embarrassed by the arid arguments
atheists remain trapped in, advises them to seek relevance by
borrowing ideas with the significance that atheism lacks, from religion:
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The foremost atheist Philosopher of our age recently
launched his new book "Religion for Atheists" and
no atheists are interested in talking about it:
http://altatheismfaq.blogspot.com.au/
- Alain de Botton, Lanching his new Book, Religion for Atheists
The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne 19/3/2012
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2012/03/19/3455152.htm
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alt.atheism FAQ:
http://altatheismfaq.blogspot.com/
http://groups.google.com.au/group/alt.atheism/msg/7c0978c14fd4ed37?hl=en&dmode=source
"Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism."
-Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)
"We must combat religion"
-Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)
�Down with religion and long live atheism;
the dissemination of atheist views is our chief task!�
- Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)
"Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism."
- Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)
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"How can you make a revolution without firing squads?"
- Lenin
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