Anonymous #2 6w

Agree, people shouldn’t have imaginary friends past age 10

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Anonymous #2 6w

We gave the Reddit atheists too much shit their only crime was being annoying about being correct

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Anonymous #5 6w

All churches should be taxed

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Anonymous #4 6w

Given how much charitable outreach they do and since the government is largely abandoning the poor not sure that would be a good idea

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Anonymous #5 6w

Right now

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Anonymous #5 6w

Entirely fair point, I sure wouldn’t want that money going to the current administration lmao.

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Anonymous #5 6w

The government has only been able to abandon the poor because the churches have indoctrinated kids to be racist and homophobic for years with no repercussions. The Christian vote was a huge part in last election, these people are not smart and actively oppose science.

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Anonymous OP 6w

Agree to disagree

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Anonymous OP 6w

Op is right here, obviously taxing churches without a change in governance wouldn’t work, but in an ideal world religion would have already faded away following the dawn of modern science and materialist thought.

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Anonymous #4 6w

I think I’m just coming from the perspective of being a member of a liberal church group that has heavily invested in science education since it was founded and firmly believes that science and Christianity don’t entirely contradict each other.

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Anonymous #5 6w

So do you believe in evolution, how does this not contradict Adam and Eve?

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Anonymous OP 6w

We’ve interpret the book of genesis as largely allegorical

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Anonymous #5 6w

We*

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Anonymous #5 6w

Not just us. Lot of other Christians do too.

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Anonymous #5 6w

I mean that’s fine, but the issue is many Christian groups don’t teach the Bible as just an allegorical piece, and as fact. People actually think there’s a dude up in the sky and this ends up affecting social policies. Google the Scopes Monkey Trial. These Christian groups are extremely easy to weaponize because they think their religious leaders are listening to God and have their best interests in mind. Look at how they’re trying to put the Ten Commandments back into Texas schools.

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Anonymous OP 6w

I know. And that’s totally fair. Those groups feel empowered right now so obviously that’s the prevailing view of Christianity is that it’s largely fundamentalist. If you look at the data though over 50% of Christians now believe in evolution. 75% believe in separation of church and state. Taxing churches is not the answer. Just fight against religious extremism.

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Anonymous #5 6w

How do you propose to fight against religious extremism? Wouldn’t taxing churches into oblivion so they cant exist and investing the extra money into education help reach this goal?

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Anonymous OP 6w

If I had the answer I’d run for office. Punishing an entire religion because a quarter of them are loud and oppressive will 100% just make people more extremist. You have a bloated military budget, under taxed socioeconomic bracket and Immigration enforcement budget you could take money from instead and fund education, healthcare or whatever without digger yourself a bigger hole.

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Anonymous #5 6w

And to your point, yes that would also dissolve the good churches too. I think the bad churches outweigh any good the good churches can do which we will just have to disagree on. If you have time watch the Shiny Happy People on Netflix, it delves into how some of these churches keep people indoctrinated on a mass scale.

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Anonymous OP 6w

For sure. I’ve seen that actually. Definitely have to agree to disagree.

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