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@DaizyZeeX Keep shadowboxing your phantoms, it's pathetic.

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@DaizyZeeX Weaponizing terms like pedophiles and perverts against standard athletic administrators or voters trying to establish clear categories for sports is a cheap, toxic debate tactic. It creates an imaginary, malicious monster to avoid having an actual, logical conversation.

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@AtheistPhoenix The number of Hindus worldwide grew by over 125 million between 2010 and 2020, keeping steady pace with global population trends, primarily in South Asia.

The expansion of religious groups is a global phenomenon driven primarily by birth rates, not financial transactions.

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@Ernest1588761 Denying them healthcare is hilarious since they built the largest historical foundation for the modern hospital system.

Also, Luke was a doctor, and Jesus explicitly told sick people to see physicians.

By your logic, should they stop buying groceries because God sent manna?

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@_Ochiedike Imagine thinking Newton, Galileo and Aquinas lacked critical thinking.

Christianity built the university system and birthed modern science. The only blind, uncritical belief here is your smug, historically illiterate echo-chamber take.

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@BubblesNCOS @DaizyZeeX Deflection isn't a rebuttal.

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@mothjrn If critical thinking made atheists, the world's greatest philosophers, scientists and scholars wouldn't be Christians who actually study the text.

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@greendragonhq New Orleans, LA
Birmingham, AL
Memphis, TN
St. Louis, MO
Jackson, MS
Little Rock, AR
Atlanta, GA
Las Vegas, NV
Louisville, KY

It turns out crime isn't a state-line issue, it's an urban issue managed by decades of Democratic mayors.

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@MarcusFidelicus @NotAvgLiberal Over 740,000 Oklahomans voted blue and over 1 million Massachusetts residents voted red in 2024.

Now compare to Utah?

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@NotAvgLiberal If you actually adjust for the cost of living using the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, high-tax Blue states like California regularly top the poverty charts, while low-cost Red states fare much better.

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@Saganismm Clarke’s "simple" morality ignores biology. Evolution didn't make us universal humanitarians, it made us tribal. Empathy targets our in-group, while oxytocin fuels out-group hostility. Religion didn't hijack morals, it was the cultural glue that scaled tribes into civilizations.

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@JoelMCurzon Ancient authors viewed Genesis as history, but not with modern scientific literalism. Josephus wrote ancient Greco-Roman history, not empirical journalism.

Origen openly rejected absolute literalism (On First Principles), prioritizing allegorical truths over physical facts.

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@beyond_capital What if it rewarded scale?

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@AtheistPhoenix Religion isn't dying, it's migrating. Global faith is expanding rapidly in the Global South due to high birth rates, even as it drops in wealthy Western nations. Your "civilized" secular bubble is a demographic minority with an aging, shrinking population. Math wins.

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@Skeletonkey5555 "Elects reason"? False. Newton, Descartes, and Lemaître (who proposed the Big Bang) were deeply religious. Meanwhile, secular "reason" birthed the eugenics of Social Darwinism and Soviet Lysenkoism, which starved millions. Atheism isn't an antidote to blind dogma.

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@Skeletonkey5555 "Dismisses all deities"? This ignores global history and erases Hinduism, Shinto, and paganism. Plus, removing God doesn't leave a vacuum. History shows humans are worshiping creatures; if you remove God from the altar, we just replace Him with the Party or the Self.

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@Skeletonkey5555 "Doesn’t seek supremacy"? Revisionist history. Look at the Soviet League of Militant Atheists executing clergy, or French Revolutionaries forcibly mandating the "Cult of Reason." When tied to political power, atheism routinely seeks an absolute ideological monopoly.

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@Skeletonkey5555 This post is total historical illiteracy."No authority or rules"? Look at the 20th century. When state atheism took power via Marxism or Maoism, it didn't eliminate authority; it centralized it into brutal, blood-soaked state dogmas. Atheists just trade God for the State.

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@Skeletonkey5555 I can only provide the analysis, I cannot provide the cognitive capacity required to comprehend it.

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@Skeletonkey5555 Ad hominem is the classic refuge of a bankrupt thesis. When historical literacy and mythological nuance elude you, throwing a playground tantrum is certainly one way to mask the cognitive deficit.

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@Skeletonkey5555 If you need a Bronze Age text to spoon-feed you a modern literary critique just so your last remaining brain cells can process it, that’s a tragic and embarrassing failure of your own basic literacy.