Anonymous #2 13w

The former, I mostly see them contort arguments for the sake of preserving their religious views which, fair enough.

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Anonymous OP 13w

Oh then I agree with you, they always do that 🫩

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Anonymous #2 13w

I was talking with one here about a verse where God did something horrid, and they literally ended the conversation with me and accused me of strawmanning lol

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i mean believing in magic stories where things appear out of thin air and people come back from the dead, yeah. fun stories but that’s all they are. not saying yall can’t have valid takes on other things but certain stuff makes it hard to argue w christians when i know that’s where your head is. idk why we’re talking about materialism though.

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yeahhh and i just can’t accept that, sorry. i’m sure you’re a cool person but the whole concept of religion weirds me out. i’ve spent too much time studying and learning the history of nature and the world to give credit to a guy in a story. best of luck

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Anonymous #3 13w

And those SAME people use their fictional story to control politics, laws, other real life important things to align with their delusionals...

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Anonymous #2 13w

that’s the scary part to me 😭 christianity has a long history of forcing the world to fit into their (mostly outdated) views and it is scary to think about

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That’s actually not true. We can expect people to have existed based on the fact we’ve seen people exist millions of times. We have no evidence to suggest a God exists, even once.

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My bad. The notion of discounting other historical figures or “persons” that existed in that past

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Oh my bad then! I totally misunderstood

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first of all, christians do nottt make up over 99% of humanity 😭 and i’m meaning that in the case of topics unrelating to religion, christians tend to allow their religious views to sway their opinion in a certain way and have a certain bias against others who do not think that way. so, yes, i am untrustworthy of someone who allows fantasy to get mixed up in their reality. this doesn’t mean im discounting everyone’s opinion just bc of their religious views. i’ve just seen a lot of extremes

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Anonymous #6 12w

And I’ve never met a conservative who can give logical arguments for their political positions!

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Anonymous #5 12w

If you’d like you can DM me! Just to avoid the comment section blowing up people’s notifs

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wouldn’t say it’s a minority position anymore. secular/materialism won the culture war, we may see a shift as our lives continue to deteriorate and people radicalize, but they definitely aren’t the “minority”

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Anonymous OP 12w

well it’s all value based. it’s why debate doesn’t work, you’re only going to win someone over to your side if you get them to change their values, which is near impossible since they’ve held them for decades. you’d have to introduce some trauma to shatter their entire worldview. not likely

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Anonymous OP 12w

well they’re not the biblical authority is the issue and that stance is taken by sola scriptura, when in reality it needs to be interpreted properly by the church

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