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First, most atheists tend to try to get religion to stop messing with our government and dragging a bunch of unsupported (and in some cases, dangerous) beliefs into the lives of people who would be better off without them.
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No. Most militant atheists may. Most atheists simply go about their lives the same way the average theist does. Live and let live. Radicalism is ugly on both sides. If you want to be aligned with radicals, I won't stop you. I believe government should be secular, just like the USA has been for over 200 years, unlike Europe and Asia. I could care less whether the Ten Commandments or Dawkin's new 10 Commandments (of which there are 15) are displayed in a courthouse. It really does me no harm.
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Second, a person that refuses to have dogma forced upon him/her (and thus being free from religion) does not disqualify this person from being a free thinker. In fact, the opposite action (accepting faith as an acceptable defense for an idea) does prevent a person from being a free thinker.
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I don't disagree with the first bit. I disagree when radicals claim that you MUST be free from religion to be a free thinker.
The second bit is evidence of your full blown indoctrination. You have your own dogma, you just can't see it.
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