discrimination of atheists

[Occhidiangela]

The US constitution is also a bourgeois document that once stated slaves were 3/5ths of a person. Like any other instrument of the State, it changes as necessary to adjust to the current needs of its creators (white ruling class males), but hypocrisies still exist, or result nonetheless.

Anyways, I am a little bit surprised you have such a draconian law to begin with in your country, eppie - since the U.S. tends to be more politically backwards than most of Western Europe, and is a very decadent and apathetic society overall due to its heavy culture of anti-reason, anti-science, and overall, anti-human attitudes.

Religion is mental slavery, and needs to be put into the dustbin of history along with feudalism. I don't need some deity, real or perceived, telling me how to live my life according to his/her will, and if I don't, I am going to very bad place after I die.

Karl Marx just phoned, and asked you to stop trying to make an arse out of him with your inane tossing about of Marxist sound bytes.

Thanks, and Merry Christmas. Don't worry, Santa Claus is on your side: he wears red.

Edited to add:

As to Western Europe, the decadent culture there hates itself enough to stop breeding. That is a curious sort of nihilism, to pursue deliberate negative population growth as a matter of cultural imperative. Leaving Europe in the rear view mirror was one of the best things the Americans did, and the return to authoritarian European values, and trivial nonsense like espresso and latte, is an enormous mistake, culturally. The anti science society developed the computer chips that make it possible for fools like yourself to post on the internet.

You are welcome. Thanks for being yet another data point in support of an idea I've seen running about here and there: the internet is the most effective means of spreading idiocy and stupidity known to man.

You need to take a very long, hard look at yourself before calling anyone else out on having a lack of intelligence, or reducing people to "data points".

When you call someone else (me) a Mindless Patriot you affirm once again, for me, both your deliberate stupidity and your willful ignorance. Both are self inflicted wounds. I've been hearing the brand of tripe you spew for about four decades. It wasn't very sensible when I first heard it, and is less so now. It may be new to you, but it is tired old crap to me. Marx did some interesting work on understanding economic theory, but his political assumptions have been proven wrong again and again.

Thanks for not disappointing. I could almost set my watch to your foolishness.

Bun Bun: thank you for the link. The Mao era initiative "single child" policy is slowly eroding. We shall see, in the next generation, what choices people in China make when there are fewer restrictions. India had two thirds of the population of China in the late 60's, about 400 million to about 600 million. They have passed China.

Note: Pakistan, Egypt, Indonesia ... significant numbers of large population nations are still at positive population growth numbers.

We'll see if the predictions and assumption in that article come to pass.

Occhi