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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

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Islam has been at war with the west for over 1300 years. not stopping any time soon...err ever.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

We need to kill them. We need to find them and to kill them. We kill them. Then we find out who sent them and we kill them too. You kill the people who did it. You kill the people who planned it. Then you kill everyone who is happy about it.

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How exactly would we "eradicate Islam"? I'd love to hear specifics...

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We would just have to end all religion. There is a path to doing it, and we are on it here in the West.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Moreso in Western Europe.

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I'm not sure it's that simple. I'm about as anti-religion as anyone you can find, yet I have to acknowledge the deep influence Christianity has had on Western thought/society and I'm cognizant of the inherent bias I have toward the Christian-dominated status quo in the West.

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Freedom is our Strength.

Which is why Islam will eventually win.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Because it worked out so well last century when the Communists did it.

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Islam is organized ignorance. They are going to be left behind in the dust. Machine learning and technology is the path. Not adhering to your ancestors stupid ideas.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Communism did not end religion. It just put the head of state in the place of god.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Genocide?

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I think our chief cultural import, other than hip-hop, will turn out to be debt.

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That's the Berwyn way

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Oh, the Communists tried.

History is your friend, not your enemy.

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Europe is becoming more secular and radical Islam is a larger problem there. Notice a correlation? It seems to be radicalization is lower in populations where people are allowed to practice their religions. Pew polls on religion (which are conducted every few years) indicate Muslims in the US are more open to traditionally liberal ideas than their counterparts in Western Europe. For example more Muslims that evangelicals in the US support same sex marriage per the Pew poll.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

yeah tell that to the Jews and other religious types they persecuted...

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Make it about survival.

Except you don't have your history right, and the vast majority of religious "history" are made up stories than are contradicted by actual history. Nice try though.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

I don't believe anyone called for the state to eliminate religion.

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That's is an ugly path, though, if it is not softened by art, creativity, and a healthy tension between individualism and communitarianism. I know what you mean, though.

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That's very specific.

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There goes Seacrest defending Islamic law again.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Yeah, those more than 100M people killed by Communism in the last century had nothing to do with religion.

Good chat though.

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You are not drawing very good conclusions here. You don't think Stalin wasn't worshipped? Or how about Mao or the head of state in North Korea? Cult of personality became the dominant religion, and others were stomped down on. This is pretty common for religions. Islam is doing the same in the Caliphate.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Russia absolutely did that.

Until they switched in mid stream when they needed some of "them" for soldiers.

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What are you even talking about? Maybe is Christian nations did not decide to slaughter each other en mass from 1914-1918 there would not have been an opportunity for those atrocities. And how many millions were killed in the religious wars before that? It's hilarious when the religious try to point out the atrocities of others. There are a long list of wars fought in god's name, and that does not even take into account everyone who died because science was suppressed by the word of god.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Attempt to kill every Muslim in the world. Seems like most of this board is behind it.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

One of my former students' fathers, a doctor who moved here from Syria when he was 21, said this to me:

"There are different kinds of Muslims in the US: the academic one like me who really are about safe neighborhoods and good futures for their kids. We don't hate gays and blacks, but lower our taxes already. And then the ones who believe in the Giant Spaghetti Monster. You watch--my kids will marry white girls."

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