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Religion is politics about the unknown ⚛️ The Bible is a recipe for extremism 🇺🇸 Follow me & help deradicalize 🌴🥥 #exChristian #proChoice #atheist 💙

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🧵 Presenting highlights from Robert Green Ingersoll’s presidential campaign speeches - Grant campaign, 1868 - Hayes campaign, 1876 - Garfield campaign, 1880 All three campaigns were successful At that time Republicans were the liberal party & Democrats were conservative
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Friendly reminder, #groomers are in the churches Blaming nonbelievers and liberals for the most heinous crimes imaginable Whitewashing each other’s often very real crimes in the blood of Jesus Typically advocating for child beating if not child labor or child marriage
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@kenchengcomedy @hemantmehta Yes, send her abroad to study in a country where they see education as an investment not a liability
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Osama Bin Laden attacked the World Trade Center and Pentagon and we went to war for 20 years Donald Trump attacked the Capitol and instigated a putsch against the democratic process and today he’s a free man in Washington #LockHimUp #TrumpCoupAttempt
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@JackPosobiec Happens more often in churches
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Sound of Freedom is trending because turns out Tim Ballard was just grooming women to sleep with him
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Immaculate conception is trending Because the most popular religion in the world holds that the author of the universe knocked up a teenage girl without asking & only did it to save the world
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Not guilty is trending in the US because here stochastic terrorists have figured out how to get away with serial killing
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@RightWingWatch 100% of unintended pregnancies are because a man was irresponsible
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@RightWingWatch ‘Women only think they’re people because Jews gave them the idea’
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Does anyone believe in blood sacrifice without the threat of endless pain?
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@evamckend @hemantmehta Imagine the field where Chris Christie stands for moral clarity
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A rise in atheism doesn’t mean a ban on churches, it means a boycott
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@edzitron @hemantmehta Come to think of it I’m surprised he doesn’t go by Rafael
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Atheism is trending I wonder why
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@ilyseh And then they privately resegregated their schools and cut social spending for decades
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Did you know the Book of Mormon was literally pulled out of a hat?
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To be a Christian nationalist in the US is to believe the problems of Gazans would be solved by converting to Christianity
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Satanic panic is the original Christian blood libel
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Conception Act is trending in the US This is for two reasons & two reasons almost only Because voters don’t know basic facts & because they learn alternative facts in church
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Entrapment day is trending because the former president & his supporters think they’re above the law
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US Department of Education is trending because all conservatives want is to have it under control
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The answers are not in Genesis
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@hemantmehta When you ask them about Numbers 5:11-31, don’t ask about abortion Don’t ask if a man’s choice includes abortion Ask if a man’s choice includes trying his wife by ordeal Then ask why wives got no choice
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@JMChiavetta @darth You sound like a masculinity crisis alright but I’m not sure Jordan Peterson represents any solutions
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@allbygrace_ It’s a story book that people have staked their mental health on
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The two big lies of white supremacy in the US are that racism stopped after the civil war & that Christianity ended it
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@feminINEnotIST That’s what my mom thought She was treated for STIs three times in a 20 year marriage during which my dad was driving us an hour one way to church & reading the Bible to the family every evening She never could get a church on her side about leaving
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Atheist is trending I am an #Atheist , I would rather have democracy one life at a time than bargain for privilege in some eternal monarchy after I die
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Didn’t think there would be a worse take on masculinity after Doug Wilson but here we are
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I have a question Why does Christianity assume the almighty all-father of the universe would need a blood transaction to form meaningful relationships?
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@swell @MikeDrucker You subscribe to his hypocrisy I see
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#DiedSuddenly is trending because people have been tricked into thinking a vaccine has more long term side effects than the virus attacking every system of your body including your lungs, heart, brain, kidneys & blood vessels
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@JVal48103 Either you normalize divorce or you normalize abusive marriages, there are no other options
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Speaking as a former fundamentalist What I want Christian fundamentalists to understand is, their concept of ‘God’ is a scam they’re perpetuating on themselves & what I want Christian progressives to understand is, their concept of ‘God’ enables fundamentalists
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Woke is trending Woke means you want liberty & justice for all Anti-woke means you want it just for yourself & actually maybe you prefer it at someone else’s expense
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#VaccineDeath is trending even though what a vaccine does by definition is make your death less likely
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@RightWingWatch That’s what colonialism ever was
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@LEBassett @hemantmehta @lorenaoneil These are the same people who think parents should be able to marry off their 14 year old daughters to older men they know from church
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I believe this will be the first high school graduation Sleepy Don will have attended for any of his kids & I believe he will be the first criminal defendant in history to be granted this latitude while in open contempt of court
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Ruby Ridge is trending Ruby Ridge trends when a white supremacist refuses to comply with law enforcement
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Sodom and Gomorrah is trending For thousands of years, this story has been used to terrify & enthrall people who believe Nature acts with intent
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@wendelltalks Is it okay for a Christian man to keep his thoughts and his hands to himself?
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Babbitt is trending Ashley Babbitt’s blood is on Trump’s hands He might as well have shot her on Fifth Avenue
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If the Bible says in one place you can take slaves and make them property for life as long as they came from another tribe or faith, and another place says not to steal human beings, that can only mean the Bible’s authors regarded other tribes and faiths as subhuman
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Atheism is trending Because pastors who style themselves ‘real men’ ARE your toxic family
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#TrumpCult is trending I made this just for the occasion
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99% hitler is trending Christian nationalism strikes again
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#GOPGroomers is trending Hmm wonder why?
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@chaplainchad71 Nice, calling for mass murder, you’ll fit right into church history
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When I was a born-again Christian I believed the Bible was extremely reliable & true As I grew up I learned actually it is mostly untrue hardly at all reliable hogs cultural oxygen when there’s worthier literature in the world & was shoddy plagiarism to begin with #atheist
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‘Jesus saves’ means you think it’s good news if you get to live happily ever after while others are miserable
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Yahweh is trending Whose man is this?
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How are Christians supposed to agree imperialism is bad when imperialism is the main way their beliefs have been spread & their whole belief system from start to finish is an assertion of empire?
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TERFs are trending These are women who enable misogyny by projecting their justified fear of the most dangerous men onto the least dangerous & most vulnerable of those they call men They are not opposing misogyny, they are gerrymandering it
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@SaccoGiampy15 Parents can’t have your best interests in mind if they’re in denial about what those interests are
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@itisdav Hi Dave, I took Pascal’s wager to Bible college and got to #atheism shortly after graduating I cancelled my ✝️ because: 1) The facts are fundamentally wrong 2) It is a recipe for persistent superstition, bigotry and persecution
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@JeremiahDJohns @hemantmehta Turns out it costs urban communities money to create jobs in rural communities
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🧵 This Sunday morning I went looking through the complete works of Robert Green Ingersoll A fascinating deep dive Here are the highlights
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#MarjorieTaylorGreeneIsSoDumb is trending but you know what? She’s not as dumb as her voters
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@randysharpswife Those marriages are more real than God is
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The difference between a True Christian and a Fake Christian is a Fake Christian can only be identified by a True Christian whereas a True Christian can only be identified by themselves
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@hemantmehta That’s about the level of intellectual development we can expect from someone whose religion is a multilevel marketing scheme based on unrealistic fantasies of happily ever after & irrational phobias of a fate worse than death
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@ksorbs If voting didn’t change anything then why did they try to change it?
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@LovelyF47769049 Because male virginity was irrelevant to ancient property management
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What libertarians don’t understand about the free market is that a totally unregulated employment marketplace actually is what leads to slavery
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@RightWingWatch No love like Christian hate
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@VanityFair @gabrielsherman He cost them a billion dollars but he’s a Christian so if you fire him it’s persecution of the audience who sincerely believed him
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@ostrachan Did you declare the same when George Floyd’s murderer was put away?
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🧵 The way you get fascism is you find the most insecure young men & the most abusive old men you tell them the same story about great countries depending on great men how men become great by dominating & how they need to make their country great again
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🧵 Conservatives, nationalists, Russians & Russian assets on social media are pushing climate misinformation using hashtags to push ignorance & misunderstanding People would not be so vulnerable with better access to the facts Let’s talk about it
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@lavern_spicer The right to reproduce is void unless it includes the right not to reproduce
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Christianity did not invent slavery, genocide or empire nor did it end them but it made them matters of divine right & religious discrimination When emancipation came to the US, Christianity happily took credit but the genocide of indigenous non-Christians never stopped
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🧵 The testimony of a former christian I grew up easily & habitually acquitting myself of all my insecurities & anxieties, even my responsibilities, & certainly my errors because my relationship with Jesus was bigger than any of that & I was going to live happily ever after
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Constitutional Republic is trending This is coded language from religious right-wing extremists who don’t want any more democracy
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I predict the second richest man in the world will come out as a born again christian as soon as it is worth his while
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@dalepartridge Theology may seem like a private habit, but it can have very public consequences
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‘God is good?’ If there’s any ‘God’ in our universe, I don’t think it’s one of the good ones
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@hemantmehta Dawkins himself was molested in grade school by bullies & pederasts but that didn’t groom him to be queer or trans, it only groomed him to be a bully & that’s what’s really happening here
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#TrumpIsNotWell is trending Well, at any rate, he was never good
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Atheists are trending #Atheists know our relationships depend from the center out based on trust not the top down based on authority
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Ron DeSantis just banned laws to protect outdoor workers from excessive heat And he doesn’t want any talk of slavery in the schools That’s Christian nationalism in a nutshell
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God is not the real reason for anything
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@RightWingWatch If you’re afraid your children & grandchildren might not have the same skin color as you then you’re a racist
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‘I love God’ is trending ‘I love God’ is really just a way to blame folks who don’t believe in ‘God’ for whatever happens to them because an almighty being would be able to provide for you just as well no matter what opinions you held
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@RealPrichard If life begins at conception & everyone is fearfully & wonderfully made then I wonder why 3/4ths of us are dead on arrival even without any medical abortions?
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@RightWingWatch Obviously he will He ran for office in the first place on the idea that if you’re a star you can do whatever you want
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Go Israel is trending in the United States I’m not cheering for a war between theocracies
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The things about Christianity that make it so prone to abuse are the innate personality of its main character - who made us sick & orders us to be well - judges us for what we think of ‘Him’ - & communicates via multi-level marketing
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@hemantmehta The problem that they have with scientific theories is that they would prefer unscientific theories
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Russian collusion is trending It started in 2014 when Franklin Graham wrote an opinion piece praising Putin for his intolerance of 🏳️‍🌈 folks 8 days after Putin had invaded Crimea
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Atheist is trending I am an atheist, I believe we should fear men, not ‘God’
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@thatlizhunter Did you tell him he was the tyrant?
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Rapture is trending The #Rapture is a mythical moment in the future when Christian Republicans will be whisked away to live happily ever after while the rest of us deal with climate change
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You can’t refute christian nationalism without refuting biblical authoritarianism
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A white supremacist is a white person who struggles to identify with non-white characters on screen
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🧵 An atheist takes notes on the Protestant reformation and the European wars of religion the reason ‘separation of church and state’ became a thinkable concept From renowned Anglican church historian Alec Ryrie, in chapter 4 of his book, ‘Protestants’
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