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[–] 165 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Many claim that God speaks directly to them, often in dreams, and believe that Christians are called to wage a spiritual battle for control of the United States.

These people are dangerous.

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I increasingly feel like religious indoctrination in childhood creates a kind of mental illness or disability by disrupting the development of critical thinking skills.

    This is not accidental. Many religious scholars have talked about the need to "instruct" children when they're very young - by the age of three or four.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I experienced this first hand and it was stunting, if not traumatic. I came to peace with myself for being atheist only in my 20s.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    I have trauma from this, but from the other end. So many stunted people trying to force insanity on me as if it were logic. For the longest time I thought I was crazy or broken for not being able to make some connection they were. Turns out, there's no connections. Just gut feeling.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My wife only got it a little firsthand because her family is evangelical, but her mother is one of the kindest, most accepting, most tolerant people I've ever met. Despite that, and despite being an atheist since she was a teenager, she still has dreams about going to hell in her mid-40s.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How do paint a woman as transexual? Why would a being without what we can recognize as a physical body even need reassignment surgery?

    Or even Jesus as gay? Is he gonna be gulpin down glizzys? Because Rule 34 assures us that already exists.

    I think you're a little lost in the weeds, bruv.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    If anything, republicans are perfectly represented by Jeezuz Jeezy if you will because he is a total asshole true and thru. Yeah, that's right, Jesus Christ is an asshole. Last night for example a bunch of people died in Gaza and Ukraine, innocent, hungry people. And guess what? putin is still alive, Mr Yahoo is still alive. They probably had some of the best tasting grapes by licking them off virgins bodies yesterday while they were freely murdering. Where's Jesus? Oh! It's s mystery! Oh he's using putin for a good cause. Bullshit! The Christian Church is pure bullshit.

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