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My prize from the wonderful and amazing @TalynNoir 's art giveaway! This is my OC 'Manx'. She turned out great! Thank you Tal! 😍

The Black Death wiped out half the population of Europe There were also people then who refused to quarantine on principle They all died

@David32856757 @darwintojesus Depends how you are defining 'personal convenience'. Are you including life threatening complications? Also when you say 'unwanted' are you including because they were raped? How about if they are under age? The mother has rights too.

@Manx421 @darwintojesus "position on killing unwanted physically or mentally disabled: infants? adults?" "don't do it, it is bad" What's your position on killing unwanted gestating preborn human life for reasons of personal convenience?

I've never heard a workable grounding for why humans have intrinsic value from atheists. Some say our value comes from having consciousness but that doesn't work because some humans are more consciousness than others, yet it doesn't seem like humans with more consciousness have more value than those with less, does it? Also, animals like pigs & dolphins have more consciousness than a newborn baby, yet we know the baby still has more value than a pig or a dolphin. There are at least two main problems for atheists when it comes to grounding value: The first problem is that value is something that comes from a mind, but they reject that a mind is foundational to reality. The second problem is that on atheist evolution all creatures-including humans-are entirely composed of properties we evolved. There's nothing like "essence" with evolution because everything is in a constant state of flux and change. All properties are contingent and varying, so anything you try to ground value in will also be contingent and varying across the human species.

@David32856757 @darwintojesus My position is 'don't do it, it is bad' See? Morals.

"Atheists have morals" What's your position on killing unwanted physically or mentally disabled: infants? adults? Francis A. Schaeffer and C. Everett Koop, _Whatever Happened to the Human Race?_ (1979) archive.org/details/whatev… archive.org/details/whatev… Page 39 In May 1973, James D. Watson, the Nobel Prize laureate who discovered the double helix of DNA, granted an interview to _Prism_ magazine, then a publication of the American Medical Association. _Time_ later reported the interview to the general public, quoting Watson as having said, "If a child were not declared alive until three days after birth, then all parents could be allowed the choice only a few are given under the present system. The doctor could allow the child to die if the parents so choose and save a lot of misery and suffering. I believe this view is the only rational, compassionate attitude to have." In January 1978, Francis Crick, also a Nobel laureate, was quoted in the _Pacific News Service_ as saying, ". . . no newborn infant should be declared human until it has passed certain tests regarding its genetic endowment and that if it fails these tests it forfeits the right to live."

@RupertLowe10 What do you care? You want to send them all into the freaking desert, you hypocrite.

Women being forced to wear burqas in this weather is torture - I absolutely detest it. If any religion forces women into such brutal and punishing conditions, then maybe we should start asking some serious questions about that religion.

@darwintojesus Imagine telling your children there is an old man watching them all the time, even when they are in bed or on the toilet, and he is constantly judging them; and if he doesn't like what he sees, he will throw them into a lake of fire to burn for the rest of eternity.

Imagine telling your children they're accidents with no soul and when they die they just enter into eternal oblivion. It's no wonder these people don't want to reproduce.

@RobertJenrick 'Recorm are workers'? Are you having a laugh? Reform are a crowd of rich tax dodging grifters.

No tax on overtime has become a litmus test for whose side you’re on. Reform are workers. Labour and the Tories are now for benefits street and Belgravia.

@Purpleloveor @Zarish5062 And what if both parties are drunk?

@Manx421 @Zarish5062 That’s not the law, it’s not true, don’t fuck drunk people if you’re sober. That’s disgusting. You are taking advantage of them.

A drunk woman can’t consent. But a drunk man can still “not remember.” Funny how blackout only excuses the r*pist, never the victim.

@David32856757 @darwintojesus So the book is powerless then. All you have to do is reject it and be free of all moral constraints. Only that isn't what happens is it? Atheists have morals, other religeons have morals; very few people have no morals at all, and we call them sociopaths.

"Your holy book didn't dissuade them" It's hard for a book to "dissuade" someone if that individual rejects that book. _The Führer_ by Konrad Heiden (1901-1966), page 495 after searching for: sport archive.org/details/fuhrer… For centuries it had been true that the cleavage into two sects of approximately equal strength-- if Austria was included-- had helped to tear Germany apart: But now: "As soon as a man puts on the brown shirt", said Rosenberg, "he ceases to be a Catholic or a Protestant; he is only a National Socialist"-- and what else could this mean except that the National Socialist had ceased to be a Christian? At all events, this is exactly what Rosenberg had meant by his words. In a society where the individual was nothing and the nation everything, God could be nothing unless he was the nation; this was no philosophical hair-splitting, but a state of mind prevailing among large masses. The Church-weariness and faithlessness of considerable sections of the Protestant Church membership, especially in the big cities, was clear from the emptiness of the churches. But the beer halls and sport stadiums could no longer hold all the people who thronged to political meetings. "Nazis also believed god was on their side" Where "god" was what? (Hitler? 'the Fatherland'? the Nazi State?) Some atheists have worshiped the State/government. Other atheists have worshiped their country, or their 'blood'/ race, or a political figure (e.g. Hitler), or themselves (as did the atheist Hitler). Hitler: Germany is our God on this earth. Compare David Saville Muzzey, a leader in the Ethical Culture Movement: Thus the 'God' that we love is not the figure on the great white throne, but the perfect pattern, envisioned by faith, of humanity as it should be, purged of the evil elements which retard its progress... ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Hitler. Cited in Heiden, Konrad. 1944. _Der Fuehrer: Hitler's Rise to Power_, translated almost entirely by Ralph Manheim, with Norbert Guterman translating the last chapter and part of the prior chapter (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company), 788pp. Heiden also wrote _A History of National Socialism_. On 758: Germany is our God on this earth. U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Seeger, 380 U.S. 163 (1965) 380 U.S. 163 United States v. Seeger. Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Decided March 8, 1965. caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supre… Dr. David Saville Muzzey, a leader in the Ethical Culture Movement, states in his book, _Ethics As a Religion_ (1951), that "[e]verybody except the avowed atheists (and they are comparatively few) believes in some kind of God," and that "The proper question to ask, therefore, is [380 U.S. 163, 183] not the futile one, Do you believe in God? but rather, What kind of God do you believe in?" Id., at 86-87. Dr. Muzzey attempts to answer that question: "Instead of positing a personal God, whose existence man can neither prove nor disprove, the ethical concept is founded on human experience. It is anthropocentric, not theocentric. Religion, for all the various definitions that have been given of it, must surely mean the devotion of man to the highest ideal that he can conceive. And that ideal is a community of spirits in which the latent moral potentialities of men shall have been elicited by their reciprocal endeavors to cultivate the best in their fellow men. What ultimate reality is we do not know; but we have the faith that it expresses itself in the human world as the power which inspires in men moral purpose." ... "Thus the 'God' that we love is not the figure on the great white throne, but the perfect pattern, envisioned by faith, of humanity as it should be, purged of the evil elements which retard its progress toward 'the knowledge, love and practice of the right.'" At 98. These are but a few of the views that comprise the broad spectrum of religious beliefs found among us. But they demonstrate very clearly the diverse manners in which beliefs, equally paramount in the lives of their possessors, may be articulated. They further reveal the difficulties inherent in placing too narrow a construction on the provisions of 6 (j) and thereby lend conclusive support to the construction which we today find that Congress intended.

@David32856757 @darwintojesus The Nazis also believed god was on their side. Your holy book didn't dissuade them any more than empathy did. Some people are just arseholes.

"We value human life because we are human, and don't want murdered or abused" Under Hitler's T-4 'euthanasia' program, Nazis liquidated physically- and mentally-disabled people. Did Nazis "value human life"? James M. Gillis, _False Prophets_ (1925), 201pp., on 189 archive.org/details/falsep… amazon.com/False-Prophets… Page 189 — Those who know no God but Nature, have learned from Nature to be pitiless. The ancient Spartans killed blind babies as if they were puppies. Modern materialists would suffocate imbeciles, “Oslerize” the aged, and treat incurables with cyanide, were it not for the lingering influence of a wholly supernatural and mystical Christian tradition.

@HalfTangible 'It's a mystery' is not the same as 'a wizard did it'

There are people who believe the universe just spontaneously expanded from nothing one day and that life also came from nothing.

@DrFrankTurek Because Trump raped children on Epstein island.

Why is there suddenly so much interest in aliens?

@WhiteHouse All the people who didn't have 'bone spurs' you mean.

Memorial Day is a solemn reminder that freedom is never free. Today, we honor the brave American heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. We remember our fallen warriors, pray for their loved ones and Gold Star Families, and give thanks for those who gave everything. God Bless America. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

@darwintojesus You can try, just like you can try praying for it. Only one of them can produce tangiable results though.

You can’t buy peace.

@AgainstAtheismX A) You aren't a child. B) There probably are in fact atheists in countries dominated by other religeons who mostly talk about those religeons. You are just dealing with the ones that live in Christian countries. C) It's not athiests that typically do the attacking.

Ever seen an Atheist attack a neo-pagan? A buddhist? Do you see them attacking children who believe in the tooth-fairy? Or Santa claus? It's because they know those things don't exist. Christianity, however...

@Favwontmiss Yeah. I nearly lost a job once because I just focused on my work. Apparently I made people nervous by not wasting time and gossiping.

the autistic experience of being called “intimidating” when you’re literally just standing there not performing happiness on demand.

@KatieMiller Britain is a lot safer than the USA, Katie. And if you are concerned about young girls, ask your husband to get some distance between your family and Trump.

@elonmusk Terrible and false.

Terrible

@elonmusk We are doing just fine without them in charge thank you very much.

Only Restore Britain can save Britain