Interesting.
good to see there's hope for sanity in Egypt.
It's sad that the only route toward sanity seems to be to let a certain tyle of liars win their argument - I refer to the type of liar who tries to defend religious scriptures by the means of pretending the authors never intended to actually mean what they actually wrote. You know the type I mean - the people who pretend that Genesis isn't wrong because it never /really/ meant it happened that way, and that the authors of the new testament never /really/ meant that only christians can get to heaven, etc. etc. etc. It's frustrating because while they get the inkling that something is wrong with what the words say, they cannot allow themselves to admit that it's because their holy book actually got something plain /wrong/. So we skeptics and unbelievers win a battle but lose the war - The believers back off on specific individual claims their religion makes but they do it in a way that still preserves their reverence for the idea that faith is reliable and praiseworthy as a reality-determining tool. So it fixes a symptom while strengthing the cause of that symptom in the future- this is not a win overall.
It really is difficult being an Arab atheist. It's almost incomprehensible to most other Arabs that I dare not believe. I'm fearful of being truly open about my atheism and sure as heck wouldn't do it in my true identity for fear of being insulted or worse, have someone try to convert me.
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