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That's interesting. I think it's safe to assume you also think the Satanic Temple (who I should've used in the first place, but I get all these edgy groups mixed up) are attention whores...

Do you also not appreciate that they expose the hypocrisy of Christians via religiously-affiliated after school programs and religious icons in government buildings?

We currently have prominent Christians arguing that the separation of church and state is a misnomer. The Supreme Court just gave the thumbs up to Christians being able to discriminate against same-sex couples.

So, what's the deal? Should Christians be free to carve out these public spaces for themselves alone? Or should atheists, attention whores they may be, push back to at least expose Christian hypocrisy for all to see? At best, atheist opposition will either make public life more secular (as I believe it should be) or make it more tolerant for religious people generally rather than just Christians.

The atheist that attack religion do it out of spite. Otherwise they wouldn’t care what others do. It’s wildly insecure.

Do you think the Church of Satan is full of a bunch of insecure people?

Well, being absolutely certain there is no god is going too far for me.

But criticizing and strongly opposing religious beliefs because they have influence in our lives seems reasonable to me. Opposition to Christianity makes far more sense to me generally than opposition to Islam, because the former has people trying to Biblically define when life is conceived and impose that particular definition on everyone; the latter are half a world a way.

Nothing screams little dick energy more than attacking something you claim not to believe in

I mean...we spend a lot of time attacking different political ideologies we both claim not to believe in...so...I guess you can be Li'l Johnson, and I'll just be Johnson Jr.

"Nigeria led the world in Christians killed for their faith in 2022, with 5,014, according to Open Doors’ 2023 World Watch List (WWL) report," according to the Christian Post.

This reinforces why many of the more ardent atheists believe religion generally is the greatest force of evil in the world.

Meanwhile, an exceptionally zealous slice of Christians in the U.S. think

world conquest passes as a struggle for “religious freedom” and opposition to it as “persecution.”

That just so happens to also reinforce that Christianity specifically is perhaps most relevant evil.

Warning for violation of rule #1

Honestly, your arguments can probably stand on their own without calling people names.

states need a force to protect the states while the guard is gone.

Does all the guard ever leave such that the state is basically defenseless again...whatever it needs to defend against?

The link in the article goes directly to the data used in the study, for some reason. My link is the paper the article is about. CTRL + F the quote paragraph by Throwaway if you don't believe me. It clearly talks about testosterone.

Found the scientific paper based (PDF) on that study.

I won't even comment on it other than to say, as usual, the headline is wrong.

Does it? I hear that, buy why/how does it impact the poor the most? I mean...aside from the fact that they have relatively less money anyway because economic institutions ensure they do...how else are they impacted?

Would they pay for their own education? But yeah, weighing the consequences of a bunch of ignorant people running around is important, too.

If they they want better education. Pay for it. It’s that simple. It’s not my job to pay for everyone’s education. I pay for the education in my area.

I mean, I'm no deontologist...but what do you think would happen if everyone believed this?

I, too, enjoyed my time in the military. And I agree, it does give you free at-point-of-service health care and housing. College wasn't exactly free, the housing allowance was kinda meager, but having my undergrad degree paid for was hella nice!

Still though, I don't think people should have to endure the bureaucratic bullshit of the military just for a shot at a better life. And there is a lot of bullshit. More importantly, they shouldn't have to potentially risk their lives simply to make it into the middle class.

While it was my shot out of living on $35 week to week, which has been more successful than I could have ever imagined, there needs to be other paths. And then, maybe people might be more willing to defend a country that provides opportunities for economic and social mobility than they are now.