Bomb#20
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By "wild-ass", you're referring to the eminently reasonable assessment that a guy who is a committed outspoken revolutionary Marxist is very probably also an atheist, what with dialectical materialism being one of the central tenets of Marxism.I think you mean, "It's my wild-ass guess that this guy's an atheist." Because not ONE WORD of your own link...
I don't need him to be an atheist; I merely hoped an example would shorten a ridiculous debate. Your impression:Or you mean, "I need for this one guy to be an atheist, in hopes of buttressing my argument, ( hint: it doesn't ) so I'm inventing that."
So, to sum up ... you're just saying stuff. Which is intellectually lazy, among other problems.
"But I am most definitely under the impression that indoctrination of students by atheist teachers has not yet started."
is just silly. Teachers indoctrinate students in their opinions all the bloody time. To suppose that atheists unlike every other segment of the teacher population are above that sort of thing is to put us on a ludicrously self-congratulatory pedestal. We are normal humans like everyone else and we fall prey to the same temptations at similar rates to other people. Atheists are not a superior life-form; we're merely wrong about one fewer thing* than theists are.
(* And that's usually a result of environmental accident rather than superior intellect.)
Come again? Everything that starts, starts out as an outlier! Of course he's an outlier; of course he's a loon. So what? Kennedy the praying coach of the OP is an outlier and a loon. Gipe isn't an isolated one-off; you can find more if you go looking*. An activity doesn't have to be "a pervasive, widespread movement, something that is spreading," in order to have started. Kennedy's antics aren't spreading and they aren't nearly as pervasive and widespread as they were when I was a kid. Kennedy's antics are the last dying gasp of an ancient social control system that's hemorrhaging followers so fast people like him will be a non-issue in a couple of generations.Furthermore, just for discussion's sake, let's just theoretically say that THAT teacher, who got fired, is an atheist. We're granting that, for purposes of this topic.
How ... would that equate to your insinuation that "the indoctrination of students by atheist teachers" HAS in fact started--ie, it's not an isolated, one-off outlier type of incident, it's a pervasive, widespread movement, something that is spreading, etc.
(* Here's one: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dai...XEy-B1mFSl2hGjVSeUjTpx9S0EKEQWTpbhHQEMw6CK2fJ )