Re:The end of Philosophy
by misuba on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @02:58PM
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True, the income and security brought in by followers is a powerful incentive. Whereas if you communicate clearly about atheism all you get is fewer people hating you for no damn reason.
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I am glad that I live in a country more tolerant to atheism. Berlin has even been described as the world capital of atheism in the Economist.
"[The former chancellor of Germany, Schroder,] did not add the optional phrase So wahr mir Gott helfe ('so help me God') when sworn in as chancellor for his first term in 1998." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der)