• blazera@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    it’s a pet peeve when religious folk make claims that are in fact testable hypotheses. Like we could measure various metrics of “god’s wrath” in relation to regions of voting preference. Poverty, famine, disease, mortality, natural disasters.

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      11 months ago

      Same feeling when they talk about prayers healing the sick. That’s neat, but apparently the effect isn’t statistically significant.

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      11 months ago

      Oh yeah? Well remember that one time he flooded New Orleans and that other time he sent a hurricane to New York and those fires in California and literally nowhere else on the planet has ever had catastrophic weather in the history of ever?

      Atheistmate, lib!

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      11 months ago

      He usually doesn’t get any of the flak but Jesus himself said “it is written: do not test the lord thy god” Matthew 4:7, they will quote that back to you