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You’re still doing it. You’re still making up a position for me that I have never taken, because you literally cannot argue against what I’m actually saying. You have to construct a position that is easier for you to attack. You have to make me religious because that’s what you’re accustomed to arguing against.

But I am not religious. I have expressly denounced organized religion, including the unchecked pedophilia, indoctrination, and child abuse that you are pointing out. I fully acknowledge every one of those problems, and I agree with you about them. If I had the ability to dismantle Christianity entirely, I would personally do so. In fact, I am actively trying to undermine those institutions and ideas right now.

I am not religious. I am not a Christian. I oppose any and all abuse, organized religion, religious fundamentalism, and right-wing extremism.

So, do you acknowledge that this is actually my position?

Lol. Yeah. It’s funny that you have to invent a position for me to argue against it because there is literally nothing in what I wrote that you can actually argue against.

You have to manufacture a justification for your hatred, which ultimately makes you no better than the very thing you claim to dislike.

You genuinely cannot fathom that I can stand opposed to the same thing you do without blindly hating it.

That’s pretty fucking pitiful.

Also, once again, I stand against any and all abuse, sexual, physical, or mental. I do not support MAGA, religious fundamentalism, or right-wing extremism.

Also also, it is beyond amusing that I can explicitly say I don’t support these things, and yet you keep insisting that I do. That’s literally the only way you seem capable of having a conversation with me. You have a very specific thing you want to say, and apparently nothing I actually say matters because you’ll just keep attributing that position to me anyway.

You have to be stupid.

I don’t know if you actually understand the definitions of the words you’re using. Nothing I said was self-righteous. I’m not victimizing myself, nor am I playing the victim. I haven’t claimed that anyone in this situation is a victim, either. I also haven’t made any claims about being right or wrong, so I’m not sure what, exactly, you’re implying I need to be “correct” about in the first place.

Dude, are you actually reading what I’m saying? Did you miss the part where I explicitly said I’m an human secularist and anti-theist? I stand against organized religion.

And once again, you’re making sweeping statements about Christians as a whole, as though every single Christian on the planet is somehow evil simply because they participate in an organized religion. That’s an indefensible declarative statement. Can you actually prove to me that all Christians are evil? And no, you can’t just point to terrible things Christianity has done throughout history and use that as evidence. Christianity as an organized religion, and what you’re primarily referring to, which is more accurately Catholicism in many historical contexts, is not synonymous with every modern Christian or every Protestant denomination.

I don’t blindly hate. I have very concrete reasons for opposing organized religion. Organized religion can indoctrinate children, intentionally muddy or distort the truth to serve political interests, perpetually seek more money and influence, manipulate politics to advance its own agenda, and, at its extreme, cause profound harm and even death.

But what I don’t do is make idiotic, sweeping declarative statements like, “Christians are grooming their children to give them to pedophiles.” That’s ridiculous. Nobody is doing that as some universal Christian practice. There may have been isolated cases where something remotely resembling that happened, and those individuals should have been prosecuted for what they did. But you don’t get to take isolated criminal acts and pretend they represent every Christian on the planet.

That’s the distinction I’m making: I can have a strong, principled opposition to organized religion without blindly assigning the worst possible motives or behavior to every individual who happens to be religious.

And yet your rhetoric, argument, and general attitude is identical to op.

I know that you’re not op.

O for sure. But sometimes people need push back. One day someone will read this and see that not everyone will accept things like this at face value. So I know I’ll be downvoted to hell.

But as they say in the business there’s no such thing as bad publicity.

Like mine? I’m a human secularist and antitheist. I stand opposed to all organized religion.

My God, I haven’t seen a comment this full of itself and spoken this far out of someone’s ass in a long time. You’ve made massive assumptions that I specifically disclaimed against in my original comment. I don’t support Christian fundamentalism; I would actually protest against it. What I don’t do is blindly hate it like you and apparently the person I was responding to.

Did you actually read what I wrote, or did you already have something you wanted to say regardless of whether it was true? You know, the exact same problem you’re accusing others of having while doing it yourself.

My point is that you can’t use the same kind of hate to prop up your own narrative while condemning someone else’s. Saying that fundamentalist Christians are giving their children in marriage to pedophiles is an untrue, sweeping statement.

And that’s not even what he was saying. You’re making up a position for him to support your own argument, much like the people you apparently criticize for doing the exact same thing you’re doing right now.

Ya that’s not what you’re mad at.

You’re making an all-encompassing declarative statement insinuating that fundamentalist Christians are marrying off their children to grown pedophiles. That is a hateful generalization supported by literally no actual facts. You’re doing the exact same thing as someone claiming that drag queens, as a group, are sexualizing children.

And before you put your thumbs to the screen, yes, I realize there have been isolated incidents of this happening. Crimes happen across the board, and they deserve to be investigated and punished by the law. That’s not the issue here. The issue is that you’re using an isolated subject to justify what is ultimately a hateful generalization about a particular group of people. That’s prejudice and hateful, regardless of which group you’re directing it toward.

And your link is totally irrelevant in this case. It is obvious that you did not catch on to what I was saying.

Ya… That video made the rounds right along with two girls one cup and one man one jar.

I’ll tell you this: hate is hate. You can flavor it any way you want. Everybody hates someone. Ukrainians hate Russians, Zionists hate Palestinians, and so on.

You can call the hate righteous or predatory. You can lynch a Black man because you’re white, or you can support putting a rapist and murderer in the gas chamber because of what he did. However you justify it, hate is still hate.

But as soon as you say something as dumb as this followed by the bandwagon, you’re no different from the people you’re condemning. You’re just as pitiful as the pedophile, just as contemptuous as the racist, and just as ignorant as the person you’re calling an idiot.

So don’t go thinking you’re somehow high and mighty simply because you believe your hate is purer than everyone else’s.

Disclaimer: I do not support sexual crimes or abuse of any kind, nor do I support MAGA, Republican extremism, or religious fundamentalism.

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Anyone playing space Marine 2? On one hand fucking space Marine. On the other hand… Fucking space Marine.

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While I totally agree with this the irony is china turned out to be the slightly less evil capitalist than America. And only because of their one party system.

Oooo Kay.

Not sure why you found it necessary to explain the joke.

But like you I am also making fun of flat earthers.

Absolutely. The followers do actually believe the earth is flat. The ones propagating the misinformation are absolutely grifting and they know it.

The moon is a transparent light source.

You might be asking yourself how does a transparent object generate it’s own light? Well let me explain: trust me bro.

As an American China doesn’t have to steal our tech. They’ve already surpassed America in every measurable metric except for Gdp and consumption which isn’t really a win at all.

Okay, I am clearly some kind of idiot. My God. It’s time for a vacation.