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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
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
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
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
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
@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
@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
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
I have a question
Why does Christianity assume the almighty all-father of the universe would need a blood transaction to form meaningful relationships?
#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
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
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
@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
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
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
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
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?
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
@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
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
@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
@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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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
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
@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
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
‘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
@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?
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
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
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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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’