• Marshezezz
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    Arguing over fictional characters is super constructive

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      While I agree that part is silly, at least Talarico is using his belief to try to implement much-needed change.

      Lotta folks that actually bother to vote are Christian, so I think he’s Texas’ best bet at turning blue.

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      Screeching to the world over an issue you don’t think is important while ignoring the reality, that even though it’s stupid as fuck its still a problem in our reality, is also pointless.

      Did you change any thoughts in here? Did you move the needle? No. Non applicable noise. This article does however represent an irl shift to monitor.

      So your comment you see, was much more so pointless and not constructive.

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        Did you change my mind with your comment? Absolutely not. And I’m allowed to comment about if I want, so I did. Go take your preaching and shove it up your ass, pretentious asshole.

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    You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.

    Deuteronomy 32:18. This is the lot that would insist that men cannot give birth, right?

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    Hear me out: none of this matters. Just another distraction from the world being run by greedy psycho billionaires

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      And yet, let the symptoms of a disease go unchecked, and the patient could very well die from them before the antivirals and serum have been administered. The problem is that it ALL matters.

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        Ah yes society will collapse if we don’t first settle the issue of whether the Christian deity as understood by North American protestants needs to be gendered or not

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    I have no opinion on if God is NB. But he’s very clearly in a same-sex union with Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

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    Newsflash, dipshits: God doesn’t have a penis or a vagina. God isn’t human.

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        God is nonbiological so no gender. Or all genders. If God is in everything, then there are some bacteria with 23 or so sexes, so God possesses genders beyond the scope of human consciousness.

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          Sorry about the correction, but that number isn’t right on two levels.

          1: bacteria didn’t have sexes. Sometimes they will exchange plasmids via a direct pilus or will pick up strays in the environment.

          2: that number is often cited from a book describing certain slime molds (which aren’t molds) as having that few, when almost every species we found have something in the 100’s. But what I think is cool is that some species of actual fungi have something like 72,000 compatible sexes.

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      One of the basic problems with theists is that they have no idea what God is.

      “God is love.” In what way? God is just an emotion related to a chemical reaction in the brain?

      “God is all powerful.” Can he microwave a burrito so hot that even he can’t eat it?

      “God is omniscient.” If everything in the future is already known, then what’s the point?

      It just goes on and on. Either God is some vague impossibility, or he’s exactly the same as a human male, somehow. But a human male is not the same as God, so that can’t really be right. But nobody can even give a real framework as to what he could be.

      If you can’t describe God no matter how hard you try, then what the hell are you believing in? That’s the basis for ignosticism.

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        i just believe in a giant space crustacean it’s easier and funnier. and crab sandwiches taste better than jeezits.

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    Okay… so follow my logic. God made man in his image, then some time later, made woman in mans image. Therefore, we should at least expect God to be as different from a man as a man is from a woman. I would in fact argue that we should expect God to be even more different, as going from a mortal being to a different mortal being is less of a jump as going from a immortal omnipotent being to a mortal being.

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      Further to the point, the only canon contact he’s made with humans was as… wait for it… a burning bush.

      The bearded old dude was after Rome finally decided that Christianity was cool, and they decided to update his pfp to Jupiter. And it stuck.

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      Well, considering Yaweh is the Demiurge and is trying to steal credit for what the Monad is and does, I would say that it is likely that Yaweh is gendered, unlike the original creator.

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    Literally one of the oldest Christian positions about God is that God is not a dude. This should not be controversial. Folks like Saint Augustine of Hippo would agree wholeheartedly with the assertion that God has no gender binary. This is because if God has a gender that gender is “God.”

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    So the GOP is upset that some people believe in something that has no scientific backing, eh?

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    The pedo protectors can say whatever they like. Judging by the last 100 or so special elections, the independents have finally woken up and are done with the GOP.

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      I hope you are right, but I doubt it… this is texas after all, they will shoot themselves in the dick and call it a circumcision

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      They aren’t smart and they lack critical thinking skills. And that’s just their voting base.

      The ones that are smart are also rich sociopaths and psychopaths that are actively trying to excise empathy from their entire party.

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          Born with both testicles and a uterus. All male on the outside, all female on the inside. Kinda neat, but unfortunately very expensive to fix. It had to be done though, 1) because you should fix your cats anyway, and 2) because apparently it causes a lot of health issues if you don’t fix it, including a very high chance for cancer in that region.

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      Because magic sky daddy is the most important thing to many people in many places, all the time. Because they’ve been conditioned to believe that if someone doesn’t hold the correct views on magic sky daddy, they’ll suffer for all eternity, and so they live in constant fear that they or their children might become misled by the incorrect views on magic sky daddy. This stuff is deeply internalized.

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        And that’s a part of the material conditions we operate in. We ignore them at our peril.

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      Because religion is brain rot and also, by far, the greatest threat humanity is facing today.

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        by far, the greatest threat humanity is facing today.

        Not climate change? Not Capitalism? Not the looming specter of global conflict?

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          Correct. Religion has the potential to wipe out large swaths of people overnight, and logic and science are powerless before this mental illness.

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      Because Texas is dominated by Christian nationals and the GOP has framed themselves as the only choice for “true” Christians to vote for. Talarico is flipping that narrative on its head.

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      Because stupid breads at a far greater rate than intelligent and educated people. Unless your one of those rightwing psychopaths that’s all about seeding the population with your “superior” genetics.