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The idea that you're so desperate to ignore any and all aspects of 9/11 that deal with geopolitics or culture that you'll double down on your claim that the terrorist attack was all about "obeying God's commands" is just hilarious beyond words. I really feel like I'm getting stupider just...

The lost single that Lene Lovich recorded with the B-52s? Nope, it's German alt-chanteuse Sofia Portanet:

The fact that you posted this sentence on a board where atheists complain about religious people being dangerous and delusional has destroyed every irony meter in my county.

I think it's taking a lot for granted to claim that there's a causal chain between belief in The Big G and violent behavior. I'm not denying that religious people commit violent acts, or that the justifications they give for these acts contain a lot of religious rhetoric. All I'm saying is that...

Well, it seems absurd to me to blame violence solely on people's beliefs in The Big G. You may as well blame the murder rate on people's incorrect beliefs about where knife points and bullets belong; it ignores so much cultural and socioeconomic context that it's absurd.

I guess I don't look at religion as comprising a set of truth claims. I look at it as a way of life. You may as well ask whether the language someone uses, or their sexuality, is "true." I find it troublesome that religious identity maps so neatly onto cultural and ethnic divisions, and that...