"I regularly lose sight of the central goal of church-state separation and get distracted by lesser concerns."

At least you HAVE this as your central goal. The fact that you take the time to publicly reflect on such things is so refreshing and inspiring to me.
More and more I am disillusioned with the majority of atheist bloggers as they seem more concerned with pushing agendas that are irrelevant to secularism and church-state separation. Secularism seems to be more of an afterthought for some of these voices in our community and frankly, I am uncomfortable with the possibility that down the road, these folks may eventually become influential/vocal enough to become recognizable to those outside of our community...and this can only hurt our cause with the current state of rationality and education in this world. While I am what some would consider a feminist, I find that the more radical feminist elements in the atheist community do not accurately reflect my values and, in fact likely do not have my best interests at heart. The same goes for some of those secularists on the far right that have gone to extraordinary measures to defend the recent history/activities of the GOP and the Tea Party.
A solid middle ground is where we need to take our stand against stupidity and oppression.
I'm glad for those few blogs (such as this one) that DO reflect my overall values and strive to keep focus on the issues that are most important to our own survival; both as a movement and as a species.

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"cutting edge"?
"beheadings"?
pun intended?
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"I have always found it odd how some conservative White men seem so determined to feel oppressed."

It's a human trait that I've seen expressed and acted upon by every conceivable demographic, even when it was completely unwarranted. Sometimes conservative white guys actually have a valid reason to be pissed and/or feel oppressed. Sometimes they don't. The same goes for anybody. People whine when they think it will get them results or justify whatever asshattery they have up their sleeves.

Yes, I get it.
On paper and in theory, Communism is no more a religion than Federalism is.
In reality and in practice, what the Soviets, Chinese and North Koreans, et al, forced on their people (and others) was a state religion, not "true" communism. You could (more correctly) use dogma in place of the word religion, but in the end it's just semantics.
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I agree wholeheartedly. I've often stated that it's not necessarily religion, but mindless adherence to dogma (political or religious) that is the cause of most evil.
My wife grew up in the former Soviet Union. One thing that particularly stood out to me in the years following the collapse of "The Evil Empire" was how quickly religion, Amway, UFO sightings and woo spiked (and continues to remain at a fever pitch) in that area of the world. Communism was little more than a religion that was shoved down everybody's throat. When communism became unfashionable, the FSU and Warsaw Pact nations replaced comrades Marx and Lenin with Jesus, multilevel marketing schemes and E.T.
They're even more fucked up now than they've ever been.
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“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”

― Steven Weinberg
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"But reality is not a democracy."

The principles and institutions of governance and human interaction that secularists prize so highly are the very ones that the reality challenged regularly exploit for their own purposes, thus threatening the existence of those same principles and institutions. The irony of it all is maddening.
Freedom comes at a very, very high cost.
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Yes, I clued InvincIronyMan in.
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You were responding to sbj1964's comment.
I am not sbj1964.
I am the Godless Monster.
To respond to the rest of your bizarre retort would be pointless.
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"It's not all Jewish, large parts of it were written by gentiles."

I suppose it all depends on how you define "large parts". The Bible I am familiar with was written almost exclusively by Jews, with the notable exception of Luke (Greek physician) and POSSIBLY...POSSIBLY Timothy, but only because he allegedly had a Roman father (his mother was Jewish).
The rest of the NT was written by Jews. Just because it was written in Greek does not mean that Greeks (or other nationalities/races) wrote it. My wife is fluent in English and uses it exclusively at work. That does not make her an American. She is, in fact Russian. Just as English is the language of commerce, etc. today, Greek was a common language used in that area of the world to spread ideas (alongside Latin).
If you look at the fact that the rest of the Bible (OT) was written by Jews in Hebrew and Aramaic, there isn't a whole lot of room left for whatever large parts of it you claim were written by all of these Gentiles. If you have information that refutes this, please feel free to correct me.

"There's nothing wrong with fairytale so long as you know that's what it is and don't mistake it for literal truth.

I think we secularists already got that part figured out. The problem is that the religious world has not.

"It's not badly written. Well, I will grant that parts of it are awful...it isn't really one book but a collection of books by different authors, some of which were fine writers, and some of which weren't.

You state that it's not badly written and then proceed to dive right into an explanation of how and why some of it is badly written.

"It is indeed error-ridden, violent, misogynistic and magic filled, but frankly who cares if you take it as what it is instead of as some kind of instruction manual? So is Hamlet, but do you call that ridiculous? "

No, because people don't enslave, rape, torture, murder and otherwise treat people like shit because of something they read in Hamlet. Horrible analogy.

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