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Gracious Atheist

@graciousathiest

Former Evangelical Christian who deconstructed and ended up a Philosophical Atheist and Ethical Humanist

North Carolina, USA Katılım Ocak 2011
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"You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God."
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Governor Newsom Press Office@GovPressOffice·
WOW!!! JUST GOT A CALL FROM A VERY RELIABLE SOURCE (TOP LEVEL) THAT DONALD TRUMP IS FURIOUS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM (GOVERNOR OF THE FREE WORLD) HAVE COMPLETELY “HIJACKED” THE NEWS ON HIS “BIG SPEECH DAY” WITHOUT EVEN TRYING. FOX NEWS IS WALL-TO-WALL COVERAGE OF ME AND MY “ROAD SHOW.” MY RATINGS ARE THROUGH THE ROOF! MUCH BETTER THAN DOZY’S. PEOPLE ARE NOW SAYING THAT I SHOULD DELIVER THE SPEECH INSTEAD OF TRUMP’S “STATE OF THE SNOOZE.” I WOULD CRUSH IT. EVEN WITH DYSLEXIA. ESPECIALLY WITH DYSLEXIA! UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE, I DON’T NEED THE TELEPROMPTER (VERY ADVANCED SKILL, VERY RARE). I MEMORIZE. IT’S CALLED PREPARATION. LOOK IT UP, DON! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! —GOVERNOR GCN
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John Mitnick
John Mitnick@JohnMitnick·
I helped to establish DHS in 2002 and 2003 and later had the homeland security portfolio as a White House Counsel and served as General Counsel of the Department. I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty. Impeach and remove Trump—now.
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway3d

The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts. The thugs wrestled him to the ground. They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times. They murdered him. The videos don't lie. A man is dead, killed in cold blood. There is no conceivable justification for this intentional homicide. And make no mistake, that intentional, unjustified homicide was committed on behalf of Donald J. Trump. Trump's militarization of Minneapolis and other parts of our nation isn't about illegal immigration. It's not about enhancing public safety. It's about destroying any sense of that safety—to intimidate political opponents, and to punish dissent. It's about a corrupt, out-of-control regime's effort to provoke citizens in order to justify the violence it desires to commit against them so that it can expand and retain its power. That is fascism. It is tyranny. It is governmental criminality. And the ultimate legal check the Framers of our Constitution provided to stop this kind of tyranny and criminality in the executive branch is impeachment and removal of the executive. Congress needs to do its job. Now. Before it's too late.

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CNN@CNN·
Supreme Court rules that Trump's sweeping emergency tariffs are illegal. cnn.it/4bZtaLo
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Tad Ghostal
Tad Ghostal@poe_collector·
A former 25 year career federal agent whose entire job was dealing with gun incidents involving federal agents details all the ways Ross messed up on CBS. It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already
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Brian Krassenstein
Brian Krassenstein@krassenstein·
BREAKING: Trump is cutting off SNAP to Minnesota. Taking food from kids to own the libs.
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Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan·
Told. You. So.
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𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐓 ™
Charlie Kirk called for Biden’s execution and Republicans shrugged. But when people call Kirk an intolerant, anti-democratic racist peddling hate-mongering, they’re doxxed, harassed, threatened, and fired. So much for free speech. #FreeSpeech #Hypocrisy
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@BretWeinstein Will just any religion do the trick? Does the entire world need the same shared narrative or can there be a bunch of them?
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Yes, you can have morality without religion. But can it last? Religious morality is a product of evolution—a narrative/incentive structure that encodes subtle truths about the interaction of game theory and wellbeing. In effect, it uses mythology to solve multipolar traps. It’s readily possible for individuals to act in accordance with these moral restrictions, without the narrative or faith. That said, a population that lacks faith in such a shared narrative is prone to being destroyed by cheaters who defect from the moral structure and individually profit by doing so. That profitable cheating behavior spreads and dooms the larger culture, if not the lineage itself. So the real question is: can a population that does not reliably maintain a robust religious framework persist? My best guess at the answer is: It is technically possible to have stable morality in an atheistic culture, but it’s practically impossible.
Hitchslap@Hitchslap1

Serious question. Is it possible to have morality without religion?

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@Carro1878 @aigkenham It’s the same move young earth creationists do when they make a distinction between micro-evolution and macro-evolution; it’s a distinction without a difference.
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@graciousathiest @aigkenham I think he is trying to trivialise "scientific fact" by adding a word suggesting some of it is open to interpretation, things like Bialowieza, the forest in Europe where tree remains have been dated as being 12,000 years old, indisputable facts that contradict the bibles 6,000.
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Ken Ham
Ken Ham@aigkenham·
Nothing in observational science contradicts the timeline of history as recorded in the Bible.
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Frank Turek@DrFrankTurek·
Why should Christians celebrate Thanksgiving?
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Ken Ham
Ken Ham@aigkenham·
Genesis 1 clearly states that God supernaturally created everything in six actual days.
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Why are nontheistic and polytheistic religions ignored in philosophy of religion?
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