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Choosing a faith

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Message 3683 of 3694 (917004)
03-18-2024 8:15 PM 		Reply to: Message 3668 by GDR
03-18-2024 4:06 PM

Re: Saved for what?
Children are safer now than any other time in the history of mankind.
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts

"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.

If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up, why would you have to lie?

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Message 3684 of 3694 (917006)
03-18-2024 8:32 PM 		Reply to: Message 3675 by GDR
03-18-2024 5:40 PM

Re: Saved for what?
Drugs were always a problem. Just the drugs changed. Teens have always had premarital sex. My grandmother, who was born jn 1910, was pregnant twice before she married my grandfather. He was the father of the youngest, but he raised the other as his own daughter. No one ever questioned or thought different. My grandmother was Canadian and a church goer.
There was no golden age of childhood innocence. It is just different now. People bitched the same when when TV came out. A generation earlier it was evil radio. In the late 1800's it was pulp magazines. Before that their were penny dreadfuls and dime novels. People bitched at the decay of society with the arrival of the printing press and people being able to read the Bible all by themselves. There was no golden age. Things slowly get better.
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts

"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.

If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up, why would you have to lie?

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Message 3685 of 3694 (917007)
03-18-2024 8:33 PM 		Reply to: Message 3677 by GDR
03-18-2024 5:49 PM

Re: Saved for what?
That still happens everyday. You sound like you live around a lot of shitty people.
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts

"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.

If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up, why would you have to lie?

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Message 3686 of 3694 (917008)
03-18-2024 8:36 PM 		Reply to: Message 3681 by GDR
03-18-2024 8:09 PM

Re: Saved for what?
plains of Canada and no First Nations? Weird. Oh yeah they were in government schools being tortured and killed.
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All those people that did those evil things were christians.
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts

"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.

If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up, why would you have to lie?

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Message 3689 of 3694 (917013)
03-18-2024 9:50 PM 		Reply to: Message 3687 by Tanypteryx
03-18-2024 8:44 PM

Re: Saved for what?
Don't tell anyone. We don't lock our door. I think I know where the key is. The neighbor kid was surprised the first time he watched our house when we travel. Our doors are expensive. TV's are cheap and I am insured. We have 8 houses on our 2 mile stretch of road. We look out for each other. No one is an armed lunatic. Joy of country living.
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What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts

"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.

If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up, why would you have to lie?

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Theodoric
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Message 3694 of 3694 (917050)
03-19-2024 9:11 PM 		Reply to: Message 3692 by GDR
03-19-2024 8:35 PM

Re: Saved for what?
Yeah. Good times.
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts

"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.

If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up, why would you have to lie?

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