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Stiefel was born in Albany, New York, in 1974 to Catholic parents. He was raised in a Catholic household, confirmed in the church , attended Sunday school, went to a Catholic high school."

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http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/23/the-money-man-behind-atheisms-activism/

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My reasoning, and this applies to a majority of what I post, is that I found it interesting.

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My reasoning, and this applies to a majority of what I post, is that I found it interesting. And considering some of the free-for-alls we see down here, re: religion, it wasn't too far fetched to think others might want to read it.
As for my not commenting initially, that's SOP; I greatly enjoy hearing a wide range of comments, thoughts, etc, and I don't always feel the need to interject, like on my gun poll, but sometimes I do, an older abortion poll comes to mind.
Seeing how long lasting some of my threads have been, I'd say it works fairly well.

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My reasoning, and this applies to a majority of what I post, is that I found it interesting.

In a sense I do also. I'm rather astonished that there even needs to be a "money man" behind atheism. I'd say the Abrahamic religions did a fine job discrediting themselves in my eyes. I was introduced to religion early on but honestly it was always totally irrelevant to me. It made no sense and I wasn't about to start defining good & evil according to the ridiculous crap some random old guy was spouting. Actually history gave me plenty of reasons to think that was a wise notion.

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So I could have been getting paid all this time, instead of using reason and logic to analyze religion for free?

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Hey DS; I should have put a smiley or something on my response, I didn't mind your asking what you did, and looking at it now, it looks like I was lol.
I'm a Christian (not what most would consider a good one), but I struggle hugely with it. Reading about Stiefel's loss of faith, and how he addressed it, is what interested me. One thing I would have liked to hear more about is his wife, who is still religious.

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Stiefel was born in Albany, New York, in 1974 to Catholic parents. He was raised in a Catholic household, confirmed in the church , attended Sunday school, went to a Catholic high school."

Stiefel . . .evil apostate! Ah for the good old days when his kind would have been judged in an ecclesiastical court. . . . [:D]

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“What I am trying to accomplish is multifold, he told CNN. “I consider myself working on the next civil equality movement, just like women’s rights, LGBT rights and African-American Civil Rights. We are still in the early stages of eliminating discrimination against atheists and humanists. That is something I really want to accomplish.”...

Silverman and the Reason Rally advocated for a specific brand of atheism. Silverman, who regularly calls his group the “Marines of the Freethought Movement,” is not shy in making it clear that he views his goal in calling out religion and elevating atheism.

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http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/23/the-money-man-behind-atheisms-activism/