Comments by "Daily Wire Third Stringer" (@DailyWireThirdStringer) on "San Jose mayor makes 1st comments following deadly shooting at rail yard" video.

@sons_of_god1306 Has there been a greater dividing force than religion? More people have been killed in the name of God (or gods) than for any other reason. The burnings, stonings, "honor killings," terrorism, Inquisitions, countless wars, witch hunts, genocides, torturings, cultural oppression, misogyny, homophobia, pestilence, corruption, poverty... all these are the products of religion. If we do what you ask, the developed world will start to look a lot less like Germany or Japan and a lot more like the Middle East. Is that what you want? How about we treat everyone as people, with fundamental human rights, regardless of what they believe? Religion has always stumbled over its lack of evidence, and with such a track record it in no way deserves the pedestal it has been given today, even in the most highly developed parts of the world.
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Have you even read the Bible? The god you worship is an evil monster... There isn't a whole lot of love to found in the deity who sanctioned the genocide of the Canaanites and the Amalakites and who wants to stone anyone who commits adultery or worships other gods. But if k*lling is a form of love, then I suppose you might be right.
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@sons_of_god1306 What the hell is the holy spirit? More booga booga nonsense? You know what happens when people think they've been visited by "the spirit?" They delude themselves. People are sheep, and will buy into any scheme that provides them community and comfort in the face of the unknown--i.e. death. Any lie is better than no information at all. That's how religion has survived all these years--children are indoctrinated with nonsense and then pass it on to their children, and by the time they realize they were wrong they're unable to correct their mistake. Evolution is a fact, Jesus did not perform miracles or rise from the dead, the entire Bible is riddled with contradictions and historical inaccuracies, and yet somehow people are still dumb enough to buy into it. It's a cultural artifact, and the toxic anti-scientific ideology is poisoning our politics. Religion has to go. NOW.
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@sons_of_god1306 How do you know God exists? What evidence do you have to support this claim that the best theologians in the world (Alvin Plantinga, William Lane Craig, etc.) cannot get their hands on? I would really like to know. But I don't expect an answer, because there is none to give other than "well, he spoke to me." We all talk to ourselves sometimes, and most of us think we're getting answers from an outside source. But only the genuinely unintelligent or throughly indoctrinated actually believe that their "revelation" was somehow real. You wouldn't even know about a first century Jewish preacher by the name of Yeshua if copies of the Bible didn't survive into the present era, and oral tradition died out. You've just been deluded by a book you apparently haven't read in its entirety. Congratulations, now I'm gonna go speak with my friend Gandalf, and I have a better reason to do so because I have actually read The Lord of the Rings.
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@sons_of_god1306 Oh, and free will doesn't exist. The universe is entirely deterministic. Your thoughts and actions are bound by the same laws of physics as everything else. Instead of reading ancient theology, I suggest you study up on recent findings in neuroscience technology like fMRI as well as the works of the greatest minds of our age, such as that of Stephen Hawking and Steven Weinberg.
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@sons_of_god1306 Finally, we all die. It's a fact of life. But a person's life span does not seem to be reliant upon what they believe about the universe. Bertrand Russell, perhaps the most famous atheist of the twentieth century, lived to the ripe old age of 97. Never had a reason to believe any religious claims were true, even in the utilitarian sense.
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@sons_of_god1306 This benighted drivel in no way merits an earnest attempt at a reply.
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