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guillaumeb

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16. How clever.

Reply to NeoGreen (Reply #15)

Thu Dec 27, 2018, 01:50 PM

Dec 2018

Avoidance can be an issue, but avoiding an uncomfortable topic is not the solution.

The logical alternative is to ask why the atheists who run the Chinese Government are so intolerant. But that might lead to the conclusion that human intolerance is the actual problem.

And that conclusion would upset the preferred narrative.

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Merry Christmas! Fewer Americans Than Ever Think Religion Can Solve Our Problems [View all] NeoGreen Dec 2018 OP

Can't solve our problems. Doesn't make us better people. Not a reliable path to knowledge. Act_of_Reparation Dec 2018 #1

Exactly. SamKnause Dec 2018 #2

how can something that has caused so many problems be expected to solve them? NRaleighLiberal Dec 2018 #3

A silly premise. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #4

Yes, I agree: The premise that religion can solve problems... NeoGreen Dec 2018 #5

Again a silly premise. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #6

So we're in agreement:... NeoGreen Dec 2018 #7

If you are not a theist, guillaumeb Dec 2018 #8

I'm not interested in debating... NeoGreen Dec 2018 #9

There is no debate. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #10

Oh and you didn't type this... NeoGreen Dec 2018 #11

Well, you are intentionally avoiding any discussion of China. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #12

Not my discussion, not my narrative... NeoGreen Dec 2018 #13

I understand your avoidance. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #14

Understand?... NeoGreen Dec 2018 #15

How clever. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #16

"My sophistication will always surpass your - CHINA" NeoGreen Dec 2018 #17

Another gif(t)ed one. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #29

interesting how atheist governments that are bad are because they are atheist. Eko Dec 2018 #26

China is irrelevant to this discussion. MineralMan Dec 2018 #19

So speaks the decider and definer? guillaumeb Dec 2018 #23

For myself, I am both. MineralMan Dec 2018 #25

Has someone claimed it was? /nt tonedevil Dec 2018 #20

What conclusions should we draw? eom guillaumeb Dec 2018 #24

That non-theastic paradise... tonedevil Dec 2018 #28

In theory, their Constitution allows for freedom of religion. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #30

Elsewhere atheistic commies are at the root Voltaire2 Dec 2018 #18

You missed the point. guillaumeb Dec 2018 #22

I've watched alcoholics drink to ease the pain of their alcoholic peripheral neuropathy. Pope George Ringo II Dec 2018 #21

That's encouraging. Since it never has. Good people are waking up. bitterross Dec 2018 #27