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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Why would I be interested in alien ghost stories? Cattle mutilation and alien abduction aren't credible examples of the supernatural.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (7 children)

I'll believe anything you tell me, including gods and magic, as long as you can present evidence appropriate to your claim. Anyone who wants me to believe what they're saying about anything divine or supernatural had better be able to back it up, or else I'm going to laugh in their face.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

To record their version of "truth." There was no distinction between fact and fiction, they were written to establish the "official" history with the political and religious (again, no distinction) agenda they wanted people to follow. The idea that history should involve accurate facts of what actually happened is a relatively new phenomenon in human culture.

Did the people of the time understand that nuance? I honestly don't know. I assume most of the uneducated masses didn't, which is why the elites wrote that way.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What a bizarre thing to say.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Your trolling is tiresome. I'm done pretending you're discussing anything with any integrity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Biden is the one deciding US policy, and the responsibility for our foreign policy failures rest with him. There are two viable candidates running to replace him. One candidate promises a less conciliatory approach with Netanyahu, the other promises to help escalate the atrocities.

Which do you think will get you closer to your stated goals?

When you start engaging in good faith, you will get good faith in return.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

No, your second point doesn't make your case. Biden isn't running now, or did you forget? Not to mention, it doesn't change anything about what the author has to say about the political goals of evangelicals and how Trump would deliver for them, which is the topic of the article.

I hear Putin calling. You better check and see what he wants.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Nevermind that. He said he wanted to call out the military on anyone who didn't vote for him on live television. Why isn't the NYT reporting on that?

Oh, it's just Trump!

At this point, I'm fairly convinced that the people trying to argue that we shouldn't support Democrats because of a single issue, no matter how important that issue, are Russian assets.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (6 children)

You still haven't explained how the author is wrong here. All you've told me is why you think the author is icky.

My point stands.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (8 children)

...I'm not seeing anything explaining how the author is wrong. Ad hominem is not an argument.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Okay, but what about the not-kind things Jesus said? How are the people following those words somehow not Christian?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

So please answer the question: what evidence do you have that these people aren't "Christian?"

 

This is a repost from 2009.

 

Kristi Burke is doing an excellent series of videos on Christian deconstruction. Here's her latest, posted yesterday.

 

The march to theocracy continues.

 

Few people have an easy time escaping Christianity, because it's ubiquitous in Western society. But it can be done.

 

There are a lot of good overviews of Project 2025 and the threat it poses to everyone who lives in America as well as beyond our borders. Here's a look at the Christian Nationalist intent behind it.

 

...pay attention to Leonard Leo. He is the judicial kingmaker responsible for the list from which Trump selected Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Leo has shaped this Court and acted effectively to keep its Republican justices from abandoning his – and their – sectarian-right vision of America.

 

...pay attention to Leonard Leo. He is the judicial kingmaker responsible for the list from which Trump selected Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Leo has shaped this Court and acted effectively to keep its Republican justices from abandoning his – and their – sectarian-right vision of America.

 

We're not going to be able to fix these people. The only hope we have is to outlast them.

 

Just when you thought it was safe to back into the pew.

 

It should surprise no one that Dominionist Mike Johnson's change of heart on Ukraine was bought by suggesting to him that it could serve his religious agenda.

 

Daniel Dennett, philosopher, atheist, and one of the tongue-in-cheek "Horsemen" of atheism, died today. He was 82.

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