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Doug Schwamb aka Swami's avatar

This thing called "Christianity" has track record of covering up their depravity with the perversion of truth, logic, ethics and human rights, making an abomination of them. Religion seems to be a cancer for any society that aspires to be a liberal democracy.

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Coolboi's avatar

More pisful than peaceful

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Amanirenas's avatar

Religion is only good

To enable predators

Subdue the masses

Enrich a few

Impoverish the many

Help people cope with their

mortality

Wage wars

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Kay G's avatar

Interesting history compilation. I am a Christian, but your history lesson is exactly WHY church and state need to remain separate. It’s why the “Founders” didn’t want a state church. Hundreds of years of war over who was worshipping God correctly! I stood on a tower in France that over a thousand Huguenots were thrown to their deaths because they denied that a priest had to talk to God for them. I have had a Near Death Experience and seen Heaven. There is a life after this one - but I just felt love and acceptance. There is no hate. There is no “forced religion”. What the “Christian Nationals” propose is wrong. People who commit horrendous acts in the name of “their” faith are following false prophets and false teachers. Render onto Caesar what is Caesar’s and onto God what is God’s. Your faith is between you and God. Keep the “state” out of it.

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TRUTHMemes by ANCILEE's avatar

BINGO ✔️💯!!! I died once myself.

I saw nothing. I didn't know I was dead yet. They saved me before I left my body apparently. My heart stopped after surgery. ...during the wake up drug injection. It about killed me. I totally know there's a heaven. I've done my homework. It's all love there. Hell is supposed to be below heaven...on the way out back to Earth the soul may see it...like a flyover drone looking down on the river of Fire & people screaming at you. That's one afterlife experience I studied. Interesting. Not all witness that wretched place apparently. Some go there into hell and are put back in their broken bodies to come back to life ..it's not their time yet. Because knowledge is IT...love & knowledge is why we are here, life after life...

So many lives we live... It's unbelievable more of us don't remember more of our previous lives. That's the part that's confusing..why do some remember things while others don't?? Anyhoo, interesting topic. I'm into it and I understand it's real... heaven 😍💝 God knows. 😂

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SallyJG's avatar

“Lord, save me from your followers”. I love this newsletter (just started reading it), even though I consider myself a Christian, or at least a follower of his teachings. I also love reading Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris, as atheists tend to make so much more sense than most believers. Everything you’ve presented is true, but I didn’t know about Martin Luther… yikes!

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Oliver Markus Malloy's avatar

Hi Sally! I'm glad you like this newsletter! Welcome!

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Sheryl Pickering's avatar

I am an atheist now but until Trump was elected I was a member of a church for most of my life. I’m learning way too much about it now that I wished I had known earlier. Can you recommend me a book by Harris or Hitchins?

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SallyJG's avatar

I’ve read Letter to a Christian Nation or The End of Faith by Sam Harris and God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens. They’re probably some newer books, as I read them a long time ago. And there may be more, but these are on my bookshelf and came to mind quickly. Hitchens died in 2011.

Also, read Mark Twain’s The Mysterious Stranger, the story that most challenged my faith and still does:

“A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave His angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell–mouths mercy, and invented hell–mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man’s acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!”

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TRUTHMemes by ANCILEE's avatar

God is real. I already know this so I won't argue it's not a real thing. God is a light . A source of love ..to bright to state at. Blinding.

Not female or male. Try to wrap your soul around it..mnkt your brain. 😂 That's key. Our brains question a lot and aren't fully open. Open up your soul. Try out God. I did & i FINALLY realized God is love.

Not hate. Not mean like the Bible says. God's been shamed. STOP it.

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TRUTHMemes by ANCILEE's avatar

****Stare at... My phone is out of control here .. 😂... possessed by wrong words. 😂Ha!!

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TRUTHMemes by ANCILEE's avatar

So you never met, felt God as a😀 Member of a church I'm guessing. Yikes!! 😳😬 That's awful.

Now a total Atheist.. What's that say about you? Did you ever talk to God yourself without the church? Did you ever ask yourself or God any questions?? 🧐❓ That's what I do. Deep diving into God's hands.

I don't do religious THINGS ...ACTS

I just talk to God. I don't act like a praying robot either. It's not my thing. I'm not a perfect person either. 😂 God knows that.

However, imagine having a name that means Princess of God.

That's me. It took me places I wouldn't have gone. It made me look at myself, not just God or a church. MYSELF. 👁️ God is a real entity ..light. so bright you can't look at it. God is not a man or woman...no sex gender. 😆 People think God is a man. That's been hard for me. I called God my spirit Father for years. I still see God as a male ..that's my problem, not God's. 😂. We think we know God?

Or WE think we know ourselves?

THINK AGAIN. GODS NOT IN A BOX ON A SHELF SO DON'T PUT GOD THERE. DONT PUT YOURSELF THERE BY SAYING YOURE ATHEIST. You're shrinking yourself ....

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John Guthrie's avatar

Religion is such a powerful opiate, as Marx claimed, that make people numb to the worst atrocities and provide a rationale for them.

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Peter Jones's avatar

And atheists are just as fallible.

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Oliver Markus Malloy's avatar

Religion is a mass delusion. Atheism is the rejection of that mass delusion.

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TRUTHMemes by ANCILEE's avatar

I think people who claim Mohammed is a Prophet totally gives me cringe 😬 bumps. It's not true. That guy was a mass murdering Thug. Hello.

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TRUTHMemes by ANCILEE's avatar

I know God's real, so you're welcome. I'm not religious. I'm spiritual. God is my light. Keeps me focused on being a better Soul. Better than my previous life perhaps...that's why we're here . AGAIN!! You've lived many lives. Some live hundreds of lives. Hundreds of years on and on we go. Reincarnation!!!

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John Guthrie's avatar

But I do not have a societal structure that reinforces my delusion, whereas religion does.

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christopher wilson's avatar

Everyone is “fallible”. We’re human beings.

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The Cranky Astrologer's avatar

THANK YOU. I get agitated when people use the term Christo-facist because it is redundant. Just say Christian. The church and state realized they had more control over the population together when Charlemagne became The Holy Roman Emperor, and the very basis of Christianity depends on spreading the gospel, i.e. conversion, and often that means forced conversion. These pedophilic men are now the driving force, and money, behind the assault on reproductive rights in this country. Down with the lot of them.

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Kay-El's avatar

Oh, those fun loving Nazis! What a way to celebrate Christian love than with a good old fashioned slaughter.

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Peter Jones's avatar

So... what was christian about them?

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Nicholas Pretzel's avatar

What's Christian about the Republicans that claim they're Christian and want to turn the USA into a ‘Christian’ nation? The separation of state and church is a really important principle that the ‘founding fathers’ had the wisdom and foresight to recognize. There's so much evil done in the name of religion, so many conflicts purely about who's got the ‘right’ way of practising. It's such utter BS, we may just as well start fighting over who has the right favourite colou:. mine's blue: death to the reds, greens, yellows, purples, oranges, lilacs, turquoises, pinks, greys (they're the worst), violets, browns, limes, beiges, cyans (don't get me started! Pretending they're one of us), magentas, cerises, indigos, teals…! But let's be clear, it's actually ultramarine, so first we need to get rid of the navy blues, sky blues, azures, lapis lazulis, cyans, ceruleans, royals…

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Kay-El's avatar

Exactly zilch

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Kiwiwriter47's avatar

People forget that Martin Luther was a vicious anti-Semite.

Virtually every piece of Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda was recycled material. The only thing that was new was linking it to Communism, and even that was not original, as it had been done almost as soon as Bolshevism got organized.

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Malcolm J McKinney's avatar

Religion, racism, resources and revenge are the favorite tools of demagogues.

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Mike Hammer's avatar

There’s no hate like Christian love.

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M Gazelle's avatar

Yeah, they think they are GOAT Christians. They are more like demons.

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Shaymus McFamous's avatar

Many good examples of how christians have misinterpreted, failed to follow, or bent Jesus' life and message for their own selfish gain. These MAGA christians are more like the Pharisees than they are like Jesus. "Christian" means little christ... if they all copied Jesus, then they would be a different lot.

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Shaymus McFamous's avatar

Or it means christ-like (same)

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Jim Sanders's avatar

I’m also left-handed with Rh negative blood, born with blue-green eyes. Thus, I do not belong on this earth except as an outlier. I would suggest we outliers need to stick together but, as I said outlier so not many of us. I forgot to mention, atheist so life in danger. Oh well, or is that Orwell?

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Jim Sanders's avatar

Didn’t the 30 years war result in the killing, slaughter, of approximately 1/3 of Europeans? Such a wonderful history to demonstrate god’s love.

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John Robinson's avatar

It was a family feud. The worst kind, when one side of the family turns against the other side. Sure, they were all „Christians“ to outsiders, but each group saw itself as „the true Christians“ and the other side as „Godless Heretics!!!1!11!“. It works that way with most religions. Same as the Sunnis and Shiites, or the Mormons and the Shakers. The goal is the eradication of the Enemy, or a very hostile coexistence until the time arrives to finish the job.

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HeronCoyote's avatar

I too am an rh-negative left-handed atheist. I have brown eyes, however. Hopefully that doesn’t disqualify me from the outliers club (just kidding; exclusion being the point of religion).

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Jeff Luth's avatar

Being told as a child that I was to spend eternity with all these old people singing hymns in Catholic Church instead of playing with my friends settled it for me. No way was I signing up for that! 😀

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Harley H.'s avatar

What are the lyrics to that Billy Joel song? "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints." Only the good die young.

You, me too.

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Michael Breeding's avatar

I appreciate the detailed history that you give here...I guess the Crusaders can at least say, " Well, at least we weren't slaughtering other Christians!"🤯😜

I don't know enough history to be certain, but my impression was that the Crusades were mostly aimed at followers of Mohammed, the Muslims.

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Nicholas Pretzel's avatar

You are quite correct. They were actually about reconquering Jerusalem (which had been conquered by the Muslims). I think they weren't really specifically aimed at Islam, just that the Muslims were the people who happened to have conquered Jerusalem. If it had been the followers of another faith the crusaders would have been aimed at them (and history would have been very different: eg no Isis?). The most famous & successful of the Muslim leaders was Saladin, during the third crusade.

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christopher wilson's avatar

Except in 1204 c.e. when on the way to the 4th Crusade, the participants sacked Constantinople, massacring the population.

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christopher wilson's avatar

Did I mention the entire population of Constantinople was orthodox Christians?

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Jeff Luth's avatar

George Carlin put it well: there used to be an invisible man that knows everything about you and he has these 10 rules that if you violate yo will burn in agony for eternity,

But he loves you and needs your money.

He is all powerful and all knowing but just cannot seem to handle money.

There were about 3000 or so gods that have been found among human societies. Most don’t believe in 2999 of them. Add one more and live free!

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DeeDee's avatar

They are so insecure and just have to project

They learn from

The trumpette

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