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Well, no, my position is that gods could be real but none of them are worth worshiping.

Then, additionally, if there’s some kind of omnipotent and omniscient Creator then it’s evil and I hate it.

That premise is the premise of the christian, islamic, jewish, and all other self appointed omnipotent creating entities.

Well, yeah, those are the gods I hate. I used the term “almighty” as a shorthand for “god that created literally everything.” They created everything including non-physical concepts like good and evil. You’re basically just describing a Big Bang with a personality, which isn’t really in the category of gods I hate. That god just made cool stars and rocks and stuff, it didn’t really make everything. Rather, the rocks spontaneously came to life and started suffering without input.

Biology, genetics and environmental causes.

And… who made those?

I guess… physics, primordially?

And who made that!?

We’re owed nothing for existing.

We are, actually. We didn’t ask to exist. It was forced onto us by a cruel god that thought it would be neat to make humans.

If we think back to the dumpster baby, god created a child and threw them in a dumpster. For fun. It doesn’t get to wash its hands and say “I don’t owe them anything, it’s up to them to survive.” It’s still responsible for creation and it is derelict in its duty.

Who is responsible for birth defects? For natural disaster? For sickness? These things aren’t choices and we aren’t responsible for them, they happen because god created a cruel world for us to suffer and die in. God created the dumpster and threw us in.

I think you misunderstood - God is the one throwing the baby in a dumpster.

Imagine you intentionally become pregnant, give birth to a child, and then throw them in a dumpster. That’s the god you described.

Except multiply that by billions of lives.

I think more broadly you could say I’m anti-demiurge, I guess I don’t particularly hate the other gods but they’re just jumped up elementals/spirits. Like, whatever, some guy demands to be worshipped in exchange for boons or to bestow curses or whatever. I think he’s an asshole for lording his cool lightning powers over us, but I don’t think he needs to be destroyed for it per se.

Antitheist.

If there is some kind of almighty God that created and rules everything then it must be the most evil being to ever exist and we must destroy it. It created evil, it created suffering, it created loss, it created death, and for what? Fun?

So in your opinion, calling this genocide is biased.

Muslim scholars are calling on fellow Muslims to fight back against genocide.

The problem is that they are scary words like “futwa” and “jihad” and, in the West, this language is seen as uncivilized and barbaric.

Orientalism, in other words.

Fascism is okay when it’s legal.

Go back to Reddit.

You aren’t wrong, but can you really say they wouldn’t do this to socialists if they didn’t do it to Le Pen first? The concept of “precedent” seems very nebulous and liberal to me. In many countries the first targets are socialists.

Seems to me like they can go after anyone they want and they always could. Going after Le Pen doesn’t change this.

Enjoy $10/gal gas

Dried beans (lima, black-eyed peas, navy)

Why would dried beans be better than fresh or canned beans?

Yeah I’m sure this Oscar winning director who worked with Israelis to film was throwing rocks at people.

Fuck off Israel. No one believes your lies anymore.

He was assaulted by a lynch mob.

The difference is basically just grammar.

Who ordered it and why is the same no matter how many shooters there were. If there were fourty gunmen, who ordered it and why remains the same.

I don’t see how this undermines the “lone shooter” narrative - what it undermines is the “acting alone” narrative. Lee was an asset. Why not just be satisfied with assuming he assassinated the president under orders?

You’re a Nazi if you think communism is worse than the fucking Nazis. Every fucking time, when anti-communists try to push the lie that communism is worse than Nazis you end up with mass killings of suspected communists.

Really? Accidental release implies China is dangerously incompetent, which can be used to further justify more restrictions and constraints on Chinese science because they can’t be trusted.