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Originally Posted by LewisWildermuth  You do know that this is a work of fiction, and a bad one at that don't you?
Really how do you know?? 
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Reps: 1,795,728 (power: 1,807) | | Originally Posted by Carey Really how do you know??
You see, courts do silly things like keep records and transcripts, guess what does not exist?
A record of this hearing.
This is an Internet retelling of a joke that goes back to atleast the late 70's early 80's (that is when I first heard one like it). |
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Because it contains no names, dates, or places (apart from "Florida," which smacks of deliberate vagueness), and the entire idea of a lawyer bringing demands for a new holiday before his local judge - which wouldn't be his job - is ridiculous. http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/atheist.asp
If you thought it was a true story, maybe you ought to be a little more careful about calling people "fools." After all, you were the one who was fooled.
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Originally Posted by LewisWildermuth You see, courts do silly things like keep records and transcripts, guess what does not exist?
A record of this hearing.
This is an Internet retelling of a joke that goes back to atleast the late 70's early 80's (that is when I first heard one like it).
So you personally researched every court record in Florida??? WOW !! 
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Originally Posted by Dal M. Because it contains no names, dates, or places (apart from "Florida," which smacks of deliberate vagueness), and the entire idea of a lawyer bringing demands for a new holiday before his local judge - which wouldn't be his job - is ridiculous. http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/atheist.asp
If you thought it was a true story, maybe you ought to be a little more careful about calling people "fools." After all, you were the one who was fooled.
Maybe it is vague out of caution to avoid a lawsuit.
How do we know we can trust snopes??
I did not take it seriously but I am not fool enough to try to discredit it without personally researching the
Florida court records.
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Reps: 47,249,488,649,861,296 (power: 0) | | Originally Posted by Carey Originally Posted by LewisWildermuth You do know that this is a work of fiction, and a bad one at that don't you?
Really how do you know??
Carey's position is that everything appearing on the internet is true until proven otherwise. Sad, I know, but what ya gonna' do? |
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Originally Posted by Washington Carey's position is that everything appearing on the internet is true until proven otherwise. Sad, I know, but what ya gonna' do?
Would it be better that I thought everything I did not agree with was not true???  
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Did you? You are the one claiming that there was an atheist who started a lawsuit. Are you saying that you have absolutely zero evidence that this ever happened? And we are the fools?
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