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**Iphone** · 11-03-2011, 01:53 AM

Despite what some conservatives here seem to think, muslim nations CAN and DO support free regimes. Turkey immediately comes to mind. They have their problems, yes, so does the USA

I finally found Ataturk's great quote on religion:

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men Three Cheers for THAT, we could use some of that thinking over here.

11-03-2011, 01:53 AM	#21
Iphone Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 431 Senior Member	Despite what some conservatives here seem to think, muslim nations CAN and DO support free regimes. Turkey immediately comes to mind. They have their problems, yes, so does the USA I finally found Ataturk's great quote on religion: I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men Three Cheers for THAT, we could use some of that thinking over here.
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