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Subject Atheist group again erects irreverent Nativity scene in Wisconsin Capitol Rotunda

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LOL, Atheism is the lack of belief in anything. It's not that we don't believe god exists it's just that we choose to believe nothing and only choose to see the world through the lens of knowledge and science. Don't take offence, there is a difference between atheism and anti-god people. Anti God people are just the atheist equivalent of extremist Muslims and Christians. In other words wankers.
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FALSE!  I am so sick of atheists coming out with that BS.  It's word-play designed to deflect discussion.

Atheism is the BELIEF in no-God, the opposite of theism.  It is a belief system like any other.  How dare you lot claim the monopoly of science, knowledge and reason - what are we all dumb f***s that are incapable of understanding science?   I hold a degree in science, I have worked in laboratories, I do amateur astronomy work, I am capable of evaluating logic, I value knowledge above all else.  But I am not so up my own as$hole that I think humanity knows (or can even ever know) everything.

Whatever atheists say, they are following a belief, there is no other way of describing it.

You say "it's just that we CHOOSE to BELIEVE nothing.." - yes, a belief.  No more provable by science, reason and logic than belief IN the divine.

Any atheist who claims otherwise is bogus and a complete friggin liar.
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Don't tar atheists with your belief-brush.

Being an atheist does NOT automatically make you a follower of science as you're suggesting (and the poster above) it means that you DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD. That's it. Nothing else.
It certainly doesn't mean you believe in no-god. What a ludicrous statement to make. We don't "choose to believe in nothing", how can you believe in nothing? You can't. Again just because you believe in something you can't accept that there are people who don't use belief (not in this scenario anyway). Just because we don't have all the answers (the only people in my experience who pretend to know all of the answers are religious...) we don't fill in the blanks with belief. 
Atheist, from the Greek atheos consisting of "a"-without and "theos" god. 
The link with atheists and science is fairly recent and it's been more and more inter-twined in the last few years more than likely as a way of debate.
There are plenty of scientists who believe in god, atheists certainly don't have a monopoly on it at all (okay, maybe evolution but that's another can of invertebrates...).
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Original Message For the second year in a row, atheists in Wisconsin have set up their own version of the traditional Christian creche in the Capitol Rotunda.

Like typical depictions of the Christian Nativity scene, the “natural nativity scene” displays a small child in a manger surrounded by wisemen. However, this display proclaims “the reason for the season” is the Winter Solstice and the wisemen are not strictly men — Emma Goldman, the goddess Venus and the Statue of Liberty stand beside Charlies Darwin, Albert Einstein and Thomas Jefferson. The baby Jesus has been replaced with a baby girl.

[link to www.rawstory.com]

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