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Atheists & Agnostics

AlbertCat

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1. Of course it's not just religion...

Reply to AlbertCat (Original post)

Thu Sep 24, 2015, 09:56 AM

Sep 2015

.... that generates these useless tragedies. I remember as a kid reading about hundreds of people being trampled to death as crowds going to bull fights in Spain met crowds leaving the last bull fight. Apparently it happened all the time!

I thought...imagine: "Honey! The kids and I are off to the bull fight now! Hasta luega!" ...and then....

Have hundreds died going to the ballet? (only of boredom perhaps.... some productions!)

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Meanwhile.... as the Pope does the "good news about religion" visit to the US... [View all] AlbertCat Sep 2015 OP

Of course it's not just religion... AlbertCat Sep 2015 #1

Yay GOD! progressoid Sep 2015 #2

will they ever learn? RussBLib Sep 2015 #3

Allah works in mysterious ways n/t Brainstormy Sep 2015 #4

Eid al-Adha = Feast of the Sacrifice onager Sep 2015 #5

Yeah, but that's because they worship funny foreign God, not white English-speaking God, mr blur Sep 2015 #6

A follow up.... AlbertCat Sep 2015 #7