However, seeing as how relatively few (I counted three) of the people in Ben's post link the "payback" to divinity, the observation seems rather irrelevant. 

There's nothing theistic about saying, for instance, "Why is everybody crying over Japan? Do you not remember PEARL HARBOR?" It merely requires a certain depravity.
True.
I was merely pointing out that Gaps' point about "punishment" holds.
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This makes me feel sick, and very angry.
12/03/2011 11:00:10 PM
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At first I thought it was just really dark humor, which I admittedly have a taste for.
12/03/2011 11:31:51 PM
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Re: At first I thought it was just really dark humor, which I admittedly have a taste for.
12/03/2011 11:51:36 PM
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this does as well, and it's also related to people's ignorance
13/03/2011 01:26:29 AM
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That video disturbed me enough that I tried to figure out why anyone would do that.
13/03/2011 05:39:20 AM
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I agree with you
13/03/2011 06:07:18 AM
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It's the hypocrisy of people who don't recognize their ancestors also moved here.
13/03/2011 06:21:41 AM
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except that they had a town supervisor and two congressmen, that's hardly uneducated
13/03/2011 06:55:49 AM
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Re: That video disturbed me enough that I tried to figure out why anyone would do that.
13/03/2011 06:59:22 AM
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I guess if you consider supporting suicide bombing as moderate then they nust be moderate
13/03/2011 05:16:10 PM
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I posted that I donated $10.. and was AMBUSHED by one of my fb friends.
13/03/2011 05:23:14 AM
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I have a "friend" who is always posting religious quotes...
13/03/2011 07:59:21 PM
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I have a friend who posted something like that after the Haiti Quake
14/03/2011 03:33:34 AM
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If God's that pissed off about Pearl Harbor (mind you 70 years is a long time for vengeance..)
13/03/2011 11:21:56 AM
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Re: Any society.
14/03/2011 02:48:03 AM
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Atheists don't ever have twisted senses of justice? I must know quite a few believers in denial.
14/03/2011 07:35:13 AM
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I think the point was that atheists don't tend to believe in divine retribution. *NM*
14/03/2011 08:22:00 AM
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This is true.
14/03/2011 05:50:11 PM
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Re: This is true.
14/03/2011 05:51:45 PM
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Re: Counting
15/03/2011 01:26:37 AM
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Religion throwdown? In this thread? Was not expecting it, but okay.
15/03/2011 06:33:32 AM
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