More than 160 Christians were killed and 500 wounded in Nigeria on Christmas Day as radical Islamic terrorists struck in several predominantly Christian villages – killing men, women, and children.

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    16 months ago

    “Nigeria led the world in Christians killed for their faith in 2022, with 5,014, according to Open Doors’ 2023 World Watch List (WWL) report,” according to the Christian Post.

    This reinforces why many of the more ardent atheists believe religion generally is the greatest force of evil in the world.

    Meanwhile, an exceptionally zealous slice of Christians in the U.S. think

    world conquest passes as a struggle for “religious freedom” and opposition to it as “persecution.”

    That just so happens to also reinforce that Christianity specifically is perhaps most relevant evil.

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      06 months ago

      South Park did a wonderful episode on the atheist having a war over atheism. If an atheist is anti-religion; to me they’re not an atheist. They’re just anti-religion. I don’t dislike religion at all. I just don’t believe in god. Nothing screams little dick energy more than attacking something you claim not to believe in

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        Well, being absolutely certain there is no god is going too far for me.

        But criticizing and strongly opposing religious beliefs because they have influence in our lives seems reasonable to me. Opposition to Christianity makes far more sense to me generally than opposition to Islam, because the former has people trying to Biblically define when life is conceived and impose that particular definition on everyone; the latter are half a world a way.

        Nothing screams little dick energy more than attacking something you claim not to believe in

        I mean…we spend a lot of time attacking different political ideologies we both claim not to believe in…so…I guess you can be Li’l Johnson, and I’ll just be Johnson Jr.

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          06 months ago

          Even Dawkins will not say he’s absolutely certain there is no god. I would never say that either. I have a concept of god but it’s more the concept of everything is god. Islam isn’t a world away. It’s here in this country. I’m not opposed to either religions. I just don’t want laws based on their sky god. There is a different in disagreeing with a different view of the world and attacking a religion because little dick energy. I disagree with communism but I don’t deny it’s real. I just think it’s harmful to society. I can admit it’s a utopian society which is why it fails so quickly. The atheist that attack religion do it out of spite. Otherwise they wouldn’t care what others do. It’s wildly insecure.

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            06 months ago

            The atheist that attack religion do it out of spite. Otherwise they wouldn’t care what others do. It’s wildly insecure.

            Do you think the Church of Satan is full of a bunch of insecure people?

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              06 months ago

              I think they’re just attention whores. They don’t even believe in satan as in the biblical one.

              So why call yourself satanist unless you just want attention ?

              Most are atheist just trying to stir the pot.

              It screams super little dick energy

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                06 months ago

                That’s interesting. I think it’s safe to assume you also think the Satanic Temple (who I should’ve used in the first place, but I get all these edgy groups mixed up) are attention whores…

                Do you also not appreciate that they expose the hypocrisy of Christians via religiously-affiliated after school programs and religious icons in government buildings?

                We currently have prominent Christians arguing that the separation of church and state is a misnomer. The Supreme Court just gave the thumbs up to Christians being able to discriminate against same-sex couples.

                So, what’s the deal? Should Christians be free to carve out these public spaces for themselves alone? Or should atheists, attention whores they may be, push back to at least expose Christian hypocrisy for all to see? At best, atheist opposition will either make public life more secular (as I believe it should be) or make it more tolerant for religious people generally rather than just Christians.

                • NeuromancerM
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                  06 months ago

                  The separation is a misnomer to a degree. The founding fathers didn’t advocate for it and we had state religions in the beginning. The concept of separation is a much more recent court ruling which was more recently gutted. Yes I think when they want to put up a Christmas display they are being bigots and attention whores. Trying to ruin one religions holiday is exactly the insecure behavior I’ve been talking about. Pick their holiday and put up a display. I have no issue with that but trying to ruin another religions holiday is just stupid. It isn’t hypocrisy to want to keep your holiday special. I don’t really celebrate Christmas but I wouldn’t want to ruin it for those who do.

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                -26 months ago

                Just a heads up if you weren’t aware, there is the Church of Satan and the Santanic Temple. They’re two completely separate but often confused orgs. And IIRC the Satanic Temple is the good one.

                Lmao for anyone interested in what the coward deleted

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                  My issue isn’t “satanism”. It’s stupid attention whores trying to troll just to troll. They don’t even believe in satan. That’s how stupid these groups are.

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                  06 months ago

                  I deleted it because Lookin4GoodArgs already fixed it later down the chain of comments.

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      Thats your response to 160 christians massacred? Call them evil?