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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 11 Jan 2015

    Religion is the comfort blanket of humanity’s childhood. It gets more toxic with age. Time to dump it in the bin.pic.twitter.com/hJPC99HSRJ

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      2. Mathieu Baudier‏ @mbaudier 11 Jan 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Very intolerant sentence, that is. I'm happy not to think that of atheism (although one could tell exactly the them...)

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 11 Jan 2015
        Replying to @mbaudier

        .@mbaudier Yes, it is time we stopped tolerating intolerance. Tolerating intolerance destroys tolerance.

        2 replies 4 retweets 5 likes
      4. Mathieu Baudier‏ @mbaudier 11 Jan 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral In my religion, we #love even the intolerant :) Whereas your tweet reminds of "No Freedom for the enemies of Freedom" (1793 Terror).

        1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 11 Jan 2015
        Replying to @mbaudier

        @mbaudier Bullshit. The “love” of religion is a very peculiar, abusive love indeed.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Mathieu Baudier‏ @mbaudier 11 Jan 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Who are you to judge? (as the Pope recently said about homophobes) Atheisms *is* a form of religion, as irrational as the others.

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      7. Marcel Dé‏ @MarcelD10 11 Jan 2015
        Replying to @mbaudier

        @mbaudier @aral Actually, atheism only becomes a religion when it starts to deny rationality is about limits.

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      8. Mathieu Baudier‏ @mbaudier 11 Jan 2015
        Replying to @MarcelD10

        @MarcelD10 Well put, very interesting. @aral

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      9. Marcel Dé‏ @MarcelD10 11 Jan 2015
        Replying to @mbaudier

        @mbaudier @aral more exactly ‘atheism falls into the same excesses as religion when’.

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      2. Josh Johnston‏ @joshwnj 11 Jan 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral I agree on the toxic part. Where do you get that it's worse than ever before?

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 11 Jan 2015
        Replying to @joshwnj

        @joshwnj The larger the discrepancy between our technology and our primitive ideology; the greater the danger.

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. happy hacking‏ @nicferrier 11 Jan 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral this is so naive. Sure. Lets do that. People will still cargo cult.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 11 Jan 2015
        Replying to @nicferrier

        @nicferrier I find it highly amusing that you can use the word naïve to criticise criticism of the most naïve of ideologies.

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      2. katharine o'hara‏ @WhoopsKath 11 Jan 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @JohnpjJm Extremists want 2b extreme.Thats the buzz. Will just find something else...It's the causes of all extremism we need 2 tackle

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      3. katharine o'hara‏ @WhoopsKath 11 Jan 2015
        Replying to @WhoopsKath

        @aral @JohnpjJm It's a form of attention seeking when you boil it down and an aggression outlet. This is what needs tackled.

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      1. Jerome Maurey‏ @jeromemaurey 11 Jan 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral or wash it and give it those less fortunate... #oops

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      1. PagoTTi‏ @skeletony 11 Jan 2015
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        @aral Any ideology do this.

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      1. Wouter du Toit‏ @vvouter 11 Jan 2015
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        @aral why do you think there's something rather than nothing?

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      1. happy hacking‏ @nicferrier 11 Jan 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral instead of diminishing something directly encourage critical thinking. Which will diminish it secondarily.

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      1. Vasil Bachev‏ @vbachev 11 Jan 2015
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        @aral couldn't agree more :)

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