I was abused by my christian parents.

I would like to live long enough to see humanity mature out of superstition and free the world from human greed.

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  • Boomers in a nutshell, sacrificing their children to the cult of stupid greed.

    “It’s torture that as her mom and as her family, we could not protect Renee,” the mother testified, clearly emotional. “But no one can protect against others who are determined to disregard our country’s constitutional rules and values.”

    Cowardly bigot.

    We vote differently, but we love each other deeply. I’m a registered Republican. I voted for President Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the United States — innocents like our family and the others here — against terrorists, certainly not to accuse those here of being terrorists and take precious lives.

    Immigration is not a crime. You got exactly what you voted for, dumbass. They were always going to kill innocent people. They will continue killing innocent people.

    After all, what punishment did her killer face?

    The 37-year-old Good, not a target of ICE but rather an activist partially blocking a roadway in Minneapolis, was shot four times by Jonathan Ross, who has since transferred states and resumed his duties.

    None at all, it’s a shameless terrorist organization. Abolish ICE.






  • Trump’s hate speech and policies have killed countless people.

    Have you noticed your sources tend to be “so-and-so apologizes, removes offending remark”? Do we get that same level of self-awareness from the right?

    Did you even read that Reddit post?

    Frequently in political discussions, someone will reject a criticism of republicans by saying that democrats aren’t perfect either. I agree they aren’t perfect and should be criticsed but they are a much less flawed choice for government for most people than republicans and it’s important to make this point. Pretending otherwise can be a lazy attempt at appearing mature by making a false equivalence between both sides or apathy that justifies not paying closer attention to politics because ‘they [politicians] are all the same’. This attitude led to Trump’s election because people thought both sides are the same (i.e. using private emails was equivalent to a decades long history of derogatory treatment of women because ‘they’re both awful’).

    It’s critical of you.

    Let’s check some comments:

    The GOP actually executed a sophisticated funding project to capture state houses—and thus, redistricting authority—prior to the 2010 census redistricting. That action, by a major political party is an attempt to manipulate the ‘power’ of American citizens votes according to their party’s current interests. That is fundamentally undemocratic, full stop. This is not a case of one political party simply having the option to do a thing while the other did not.

    There tend to be more indictments of federal officials under Republican administrations, and almost all of the major political scandals through the last several decades were executed under Republicans (Watergate, Iran-Contra, Iraq and Afghani wars). In fact, the only major scandal under a Democrat since Nixon was the Lewinsky scandal, which was widely considered to be political posturing by Republicans, which is why they lost Congressional seats in the 1998 midterm. This is a 40-year pattern.

    It’s not that “Republicans unfairly criticized Obama for taking vacations and now Democrats are unfairly criticizing Trump for taking vacations.” It’s that Republican criticisms and Trump personally were objectively out of line and now Trump has taken more vacations than Obama after specifically criticizing Obama for that. AFAIK Obama hasn’t said a word about Trump’s vacations, and the elected officials in the Democratic Party are not harping on it nearly to the extent that Republicans did.

    That the Senate in the Trump years would set out to upend the American health-care system largely in secret was a dramatic and genuinely shocking example of how the decay of norms is not an abstract problem. It threatens the most basic commitments of our democracy.

    Stop defending nazis, dumb fuck. We see through your stupid bullshit.










  • A Christian is, by definition, someone who believes in the divinity of Jesus Christ

    I spent hours debating someone who could not acknowledge this. I kept trying to point out that the entire notion of christ is built on the idea that an abusive god demands blood sacrifice, and they kept insisting christians can believe whatever they want.

    They said the christian bible is one of many different christian texts, which is true, but they refused to acknowledge that most christians find that text in particular very important. It’s why it’s known as “the christian bible,” and the best-selling book of all time.

    They said not all christians believe Jesus is god, and they cited catholicism as an example, to which I brought up the Nicene creed and quotes from the pope. If one believes Jesus is christ, why would one reject what Jesus supposedly said about being the son and the father? What sense does a savior, messiah, christ make without the threat of punishment to save us from?

    My position is that because there is no such thing as a real christ, there is no such thing as a real christian. Every one is a fake christian. They each interpret Jesus differently because no one today actually knows what he was like, and the accounts we have of his life contradict each other. The label has become so meaningless, I have no idea what someone actually believes when they say they are christian, but I know they are not thinking critically.

    I think you’re right, though. I wouldn’t say a theist is a fake theist, I would say there’s no reason to believe in god. I guess I should take the same approach when it comes to christ. I just wish I could splash cold water on humanity’s face. Too many christians break out the “no true scotsman” fallacy when another christian disagrees with them or does something they don’t like, failing to recognize that their own baseless views can be just as harmful, failing to recognize that they’re normalizing the exact magical thinking they’re criticizing. I want humans to stop playing make-believe when our lives are at stake.