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Aussies seem to me like the cooler cousins of us Americans, at least from my interactions with them on various forums like this. You have the same type of crazy fundamentalist nutjobs we do, virtually indistinguishable from ours except by accent, and the same type of cool, laid-back skeptical types... except your proportions of each are reversed from ours. We're drowning in fundamentalist nutjobs, over here!
Glad you're here, and hope you stick around. We definitely love talking about science.
Aussies seem to me like the cooler cousins of us Americans, at least from my interactions with them on various forums like this. You have the same type of crazy fundamentalist nutjobs we do, virtually indistinguishable from ours except by accent, and the same type of cool, laid-back skeptical types... except your proportions of each are reversed from ours. We're drowning in fundamentalist nutjobs, over here!
Glad you're here, and hope you stick around. We definitely love talking about science.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
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I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
