Americans’ belief in God, the devil and other spiritual entities has fallen to a new low, according to a Gallup poll released on Thursday. Seventy-four percent of Americans said they believe in God…

Americans’ belief in God, the devil and other spiritual entities has fallen to a new low, according to a Gallup poll released on Thursday. Seventy-four percent of Americans said they believe in God…

  • btaf45
    1•1 year ago

    to teach the reader how to avoid the temptations of ignorance

    I think you failed that one. We passed it though.

    If Yahweh doesn’t speak to you he doesn’t listen to you either. The first thing would be just as easy as the 2nd thing.

    • @TrismegistusMx
      1•1 year ago

      I wasn’t talking about Yahweh. That name is a religious invention. I’m not religious.

      • btaf45
        1•1 year ago

        I’m not religious.

        Then I don’t know why you use words like “God” when it is a completely meaningless word except as a character in ancient fictional stories.

        • @TrismegistusMx
          1•1 year ago

          Well there’s a lot of things you don’t know, but that doesn’t stop you from acting like a dickhead. Religion is a function of authority. It’s a hierarchy enforced by violence. Spirituality has nothing to do with the ignorance of religion.

          • btaf45
            1•1 year ago

            but that doesn’t stop you from acting like a dickhead.

            You’re the only person who used words like dickhead. You came on a rational group, spouted superstition and ignorance and even contradicting yourself, and then starting throwing insults like a child. You’ve added no value here.

            You: I believe in God and Demons

            Also You: I am not religious.

            These are contradictory, so one of you is a casual and habitual liar. Why would people listen to a liar? A liar has nothing to teach anyone.

            • @TrismegistusMx
              1•1 year ago

              Lol, if you look at the responses I’ve been getting it’s a serious stretch to call any of you rational. You never once tried to understand my perspective, you just applied your preconceived notions of the words and religions and assumed I agreed with your strawman arguments. For one, religion is not spirituality or philosophy. Religion is a hierarchy of violence and ignorance. Religion serves Mammon. Spirituality is the study of one’s place within the universe, i.e. one’s relation to God as a phenomenon, not a myth. Second, you need only look through my replies to see you’re so off base about your fantasies, that you’re completely delusional. You’re arguing with your “rational” self about your own ignorance.

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