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Sovreign_grounds t1_j6ovgks wrote

The fuck are you talking about? You think some random offhand statements about the exact capabilities means that the government as a monolith don't understand that guns are deadly?

Firearms are deadly. All of them. Never point a gun at something you don't intend to destroy.

Again, firearms are the leading cause of death among children and teens in America.

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Excellent_Spite2618 t1_j6ovf1q wrote

I’m a Christian and I can’t comment on the “growing hatred....” because I don’t live in the US and don’t know what’s really happening.

If my (conservative) pastor were to tell me to “hate the LGBT” etc, I’ll tell him that we are told to share the gospel, not to go around telling people not to be homosexuals. Their sex lives is none of my business. My “job” is just to tell people that there is a God who loves them no matter who they are, and if they were to be willing to listen to the gospel and have a respectful dialogue, there can be a meaningful outcome of our conversation. I don’t see how telling people “God hates what you’re doing” is heading in a desired direction.

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InsertGamerName t1_j6ov2v6 wrote

I'm saying I don't think we will ever have the knowledge nor the capabilities to know for sure.

I believe in my Gods because it makes my life happier, makes it easier to get up in the morning. If there really is some sort of spiritual realm all these great Gods reside in, we have yet to gain any sort of access to it that would provide us any proof, or at least not while we're alive. If Jesus really did walk the earth, it would have been far too early in time to have any remnant of it now.

My point is that we'll never know for sure. All we can do is choose to believe what makes life worth living for us as individuals.

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chemistrying420 t1_j6outly wrote

I’m a scientist by education and a project manager by career. Every single decision I make is based on data. Yet I can’t shake the feeling of how our reality could be designed by a greater being.

The way atoms and molecules work is astounding. The fact that there is a whole other field of studying things even smaller than protons and neutrons is mind boggling. These small particles aren’t a random phenomenon to be observed. They’re the basis of our entire universe.

For nearly anything in life you can figure out how something works. Why are metals hard? Why does plastic bend? Etc. as go smaller and smaller, we can no longer answer those questions and the world gets more and more confusing. Thinking about subatomic particles makes me feel like a caveman staring at the stars and being convinced there is a higher being out there. I guess it’s just easy to resort to god as an explanation for things where human knowledge is no where near great enough to explain.

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