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A Message From Trump Supporters To All Non-Christians ("Fuck You") (Original Post) MagaSmash Oct 2022 OP
" I believe in freedom as long as you believe as I do." Ray Bruns Oct 2022 #1
But Wibly Oct 2022 #2
As an atheist, I don't support false gods either. Girard442 Oct 2022 #3
Qvangelicals Duncanpup Oct 2022 #4
I am SO TIRED of these entitled idiots! Thunderbeast Oct 2022 #5
+1 2naSalit Oct 2022 #6
Textbook examples of the average American - literate to a 7th grade level with no real grasp of what NoMoreRepugs Oct 2022 #7
Brainwashed and stupid. They would willingly execute anyone not white and xtian. Unreachable. Evolve Dammit Oct 2022 #8
The world's two biggest problems: greed and religion. Trust_Reality Oct 2022 #9
All religions have "us" vs "them" at their core Genki Hikari Oct 2022 #11
I know a Christian (my late mother-in-law) and you christofascists, Tikki Oct 2022 #10
They are of the faith Genki Hikari Oct 2022 #12

Wibly

(613 posts)
2. But
Wed Oct 5, 2022, 01:05 PM
Oct 2022

To quote the guy in front of the Fir tree, "I believe in Freedom but. . ."

Clearly they do not understand what the word "freedom" means.

Thunderbeast

(3,419 posts)
5. I am SO TIRED of these entitled idiots!
Wed Oct 5, 2022, 01:16 PM
Oct 2022

My seventy years of life experience has never revealed to me ANY REASON to use faith in a sky daddy (and his imaginary son) to guide my life.


If faith provides an allegory to do good works (Hello Jimmy Carter), I am happy to recognize someone's freedom to believe. When it is used to divide and concentrate power, I want it to wither and die.

Sadly, human history shows "faith" to be a tool to conquer and steal from those too ignorant to think rationally.

NoMoreRepugs

(9,468 posts)
7. Textbook examples of the average American - literate to a 7th grade level with no real grasp of what
Wed Oct 5, 2022, 02:32 PM
Oct 2022

they are really saying. Sad, scary and makes me wonder how the 2 sides will EVER reconcile.

Evolve Dammit

(16,773 posts)
8. Brainwashed and stupid. They would willingly execute anyone not white and xtian. Unreachable.
Wed Oct 5, 2022, 03:02 PM
Oct 2022

"Taking him (God) away." She is so ignorant and she is a liar. "Accept our beliefs; Not to be mean...." (#2). I don't support those religions. Christianity is the true religion." "False Gods" (#3).
Yep "they" are brainwashed stupid and potentially violent. Not to be mean....

Trust_Reality

(1,723 posts)
9. The world's two biggest problems: greed and religion.
Wed Oct 5, 2022, 03:28 PM
Oct 2022

After nearly 80 years, I have concluded that...

Faith is the art of pretending.

Religion is the practice, mutual reinforcement, and promotion of a specific group of doctrines, stories, and dogma.

Religion is divisive to the point of shunning, resenting, threatening, fighting, and even killing.

Religious people experience a lifetime of fear. Quite sad, actually, often covered up by rituals.

Too bad they make life miserable for the rest of us.

 

Genki Hikari

(1,766 posts)
11. All religions have "us" vs "them" at their core
Wed Oct 5, 2022, 06:33 PM
Oct 2022

It's a feature, not a bug, because what could induce people to join up if the sales pitch doesn't scare 'em to death with the idea of being the "them" that will "miss out" on the supposed enlightenment or entry to a hideous idea of paradise otherwise?

You don't want to be like "them," burning in hell or reincarnated into a lizard or lacking in all morals, do you?

That "argument" works more often than it ought.

Tikki

(14,559 posts)
10. I know a Christian (my late mother-in-law) and you christofascists,
Wed Oct 5, 2022, 03:59 PM
Oct 2022

hygopricy loving, trump is god losers are NO Christians.

Tikki

 

Genki Hikari

(1,766 posts)
12. They are of the faith
Wed Oct 5, 2022, 06:35 PM
Oct 2022

They worship the same deity and follow the same book.

They merely adhere to different parts of it than the flockers you approve of.

But that doesn't make them any less of members of the faith than your mother. Or any other flocker.

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