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All I can offer to this thread is the irony that I am an atheist and have an amazing, beautiful daughter with Downs that I cherish and who teaches me peace and love and happiness in quantities I can never repay her.

I'm not really sure this is so much an atheist v. believer issue.

I know many Christians you would never know are Christians unless they told you so, and I know atheists who you would swear are Christians.

It simply has to do with one simple concept/belief: do you believe human life is sacred and should be protected? If so, then it doesn't matter what form/condition that life takes.

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Posted by CollegeFBRules

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Posted on 8/22/14 at 8:58 am to mtntiger

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It simply has to do with one simple concept/belief: do you believe human life is sacred and should be protected? If so, then it doesn't matter what form/condition that life takes.

I'm actually of the belief that being an atheist makes human life more precious and sacred, not less, due to there not being an afterlife.

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Posted by NC_Tigah

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Posted on 8/22/14 at 10:03 am to mtntiger

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I know many Christians you would never know are Christians unless they told you so, and I know atheists who you would swear are Christians.

Indeed.

As an aside, I have far less respect for Dawkins' intellectual prowess than most here. Not because he isn't bright, but because of his use of the capacity. His atheistic proselytizing creates a loud voice in the arena. It drowns out more reasonable points of view. So he is taken to represent a forefront of "atheistic thought".

The squeaky wheel gets the oil. Dawkins bathes in that oil.

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