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Any society that will give up a little liberty to gain a little security, will deserve neither and lose both. -Benjamin Franklin

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Scientific Method |
• Observation
• Question
• Hypothesis
• Experiment
• Analysis
• Conclusion
• Iteration

Made cars, planes, electronics, food, safer/effective medicines, improved roads, dams, weather forecasts, etc all realities.

Don’t thank god
Thank a Scientist

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@Petershearer89 @Truth_matters20 @AllanStratton7 You’re assuming beliefs I never expressed. Atheism tells you one thing about me: I’m unconvinced a god exists.

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@RemCent @NotEvolution1 When omniscient gets monocient™.

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@NotEvolution1 How do you know matter cannot bring itself into existence? That’s the very question under debate.

The honest answer to “Where did the universe come from?” is “We don’t know.”

The real question is: Why is uncertainty less acceptable than an unsupported answer?

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@Truth_matters20 @AllanStratton7 Atheism isn’t a worldview. It’s a position on one question: whether a god exists. It doesn’t need to explain music any more than not believing in Zeus needs to explain lightning.

If that analogy doesn't help, I have about fifteen more.

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@GodlyAction Who died and made you a Semitic linguist? “These names differ” therefore “the Quran is fake” is one hell of a leap. How exactly do you get from etymology to theology? It’s giving non sequitur.

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@darwintojesus This is like the child who can’t tolerate “I don’t know.” Faced with an unanswered question, they invent an answer and then spend the rest of the day defending it.

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@Smultronnos @Americanmomma77 @darwintojesus Yes, attended seminaries & even preached. Beliefs emerge from how we integrate information into our broader understanding of reality. Knowledge alone doesn’t guarantee belief. If a worldview no longer fits a person’s model of reality, they can lose it whether they want to or not

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@darwintojesus Americans generally want religion out of public schools because we believe in separation of church and state.

If we’re going to teach sacred texts, then teach all of them—the Bible, Quran, Bhagavad Gita, Torah, Book of Mormon, and others.

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@darwintojesus This post doesn’t make sense. How do you extrapolate an entire worldview from a fiction… oh wait.

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@TheHistoryGuy07 @NotEvolution1 Thankfully you haven’t broken anything. You also missed the point of my post. Whether gravity is fully understood is irrelevant to the distinction between discovering something and creating it.

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@SenatorBanks Lastly, and this is important cause I don’t want you to look silly at parties:

As long as you have a valid DL you can rent a car when you are younger than 25. Be prepared to pay a lot more though.

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@SenatorBanks Because puberty starts before 18.

Kids receive age-appropriate sex education because pretending adolescence doesn’t exist doesn’t stop pregnancy, STDs, or abuse.

And no, 13-year-olds are not routinely receiving gender surgeries. That’s a political talking point, not reality.

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@AgainstAtheismX “Misquoting Jesus”
“A History of God”
“The Evolution of God”

Because understanding where Christianity came from historically is just as important as understanding it theologically.

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@darwintojesus If justice only exists because God says so, then “genocide is wrong” becomes “genocide is wrong unless God says otherwise.”

That’s a pretty unsettling definition of justice.

If God follows justice because it’s already good, then justice exists independently of God.

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@AgainstAtheismX I also don’t attack Voldemort when I critique Harry Potter. So at least there is some consistency.

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@ThatCheerMomOfX @Smarter1981 Christians have reexamined scripture on slavery, divorce, usury, and women’s roles. Why is homosexuality the one topic where interpretation suddenly becomes impossible?

From the outside looking in… it’s like… weird, man.

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@ThatCheerMomOfX Okay Amber, thank you for your theological gatekeeping. I’m sure the other 2 billion Christians were waiting for clarification. So brave.

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@darwintojesus You’re objecting to people pathologizing beliefs you hold dear, while many in your community spend all year pathologizing identities they disagree with.

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@rakillaaa @Al7199419Grant @GloryDoge @FabbrisHair2 Grant, it’s a great time to come out. You’ll have lots of support.