# Sheep go to heaven; Goats go to hell, or Scott\_plaid's very own atheism thread

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 1, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheep-go-to-heaven-goats-go-to-hell-or-scott_plaids-very-own-atheism-thread/292379 "2005-03-01T02:22:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheep-go-to-heaven-goats-go-to-hell-or-scott_plaids-very-own-atheism-thread/292379/81 "2005-03-03T00:19:20Z")

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> [@Excalibre](#):
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> BTW, you demonstrate your ignorance of Christianity (yet again!) when you assume that, since Liberal is Christian, he must be a fundamentalist. He is not.

Thank you! You are a gentleman. 🙂 But good luck. He had already been told that.

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**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheep-go-to-heaven-goats-go-to-hell-or-scott_plaids-very-own-atheism-thread/292379/82 "2005-03-03T00:39:18Z")

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> [@Excalibre](#):
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> Deism refers to a specific religious concept (and one that is, so far as I know, dead.)

Not so much. I know people who would choose to describe themselves as Deist, though its adherents were never a particularly coherent bunch.

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheep-go-to-heaven-goats-go-to-hell-or-scott_plaids-very-own-atheism-thread/292379/83 "2005-03-03T01:55:40Z")

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> [@](#):
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> though its adherents were never a particularly coherent bunch.

Ancestors of **Scott\_plaid**?

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheep-go-to-heaven-goats-go-to-hell-or-scott_plaids-very-own-atheism-thread/292379/84 "2005-03-03T03:53:24Z")

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> [@Scott\_plaid](#):
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> Well, It’s a free word. With free speech.

If you mean here, no, free speech doesn’t apply to a private message board, you twit.

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