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ancianita

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11. They might do it "over religious belief," but they're doing it wrong. And that's totally on them, because they don't

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #9)

Mon Jul 14, 2025, 04:20 PM

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want to make the effort to understand. Religion teaches sanity. Reason. Not blind faith and ignorance. It's the people or pastors or even their leaders who get it wrong. The final word is always the Bible, but that 2,000 year old text takes a lot of time to understand, and religious people are as lazy as anyone else. More's the pity.

This is the best on sanity -- emphasizing the human intellect -- I've ever read, by Frank Sheed:
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It is not worth arguing with the religiously insane who voted for and respect Trump. [View all] CTyankee Monday OP

Yup. No point in arguing with people who come to the table with their own facts... Girard442 Monday #1

It is worth it by using mental ju-jitsu Bernardo de La Paz Monday #2

True ! republianmushroom Monday #3

They spent generations waiting for the Anti-Christ ThoughtCriminal Monday #4

In eight years, I've met one trump voter who would listen Torchlight Monday #5

You could have just put a period after the "religiously insane". Aristus Monday #6

Do you mean all religious are "religiously insane"? If not, what defines "insane"? ancianita Monday #8

I mean the ones who have left their senses as we know it over religious belief. they are locked into their religious CTyankee Monday #9

They might do it "over religious belief," but they're doing it wrong. And that's totally on them, because they don't ancianita Monday #11

As a Catholic I'm taking fellow Catholics on about it, since they should never have been one issue voters to begin with. ancianita Monday #7

I LOVE IT! "Corrective remonstrance" is a wonderful way to put it! Bravo! CTyankee Monday #10