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>>9273354
>Christian """"""intellectuals""""""
Preemptive fedora image to save the Christposters some time.

>>8132853
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>>8105440
>"Here's a hint": Just don't be religious

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>>7984695
>I join organizations that don't serve my interests in any way just to prove I'm a big boy

>>7978077
>Christfags
>being able to not be judgmental ever
Go easy on the lad. He got lied to by a child and his feelings have been hurt.

>>7226807
>self-loathing
Nope, I'm just an arrogant narcissist, and that's okay. I'm really not, but my parents think I am because it's their only explanation for why I'm not a Christian any more.

>>7205960
They definitely peak somewhere between 15 and 21. There was some survey where they asked men of all ages the ideal age for a woman they were interested in dating and the oldest mean answer of any age-group of men was 23.

>>7205081
We're a recent phenomenon. Considering the way powerful people have generally ignored the law when it suits them, I have a hard time believing they were all born-again true believers.

>>7205085
I don't have have my faith in anything in particular really. I'm exploring different approaches to viewing the world and seeing what works as undogmatically as possible. I'm pretty familiar with the limits of empiricism, but it really bugs me how this is the first thing religious people go for when you say you don't believe what they do. My own father still doesn't have anything except saying that I'm "too rational," despite lengthy explanations of the limits or empiricism and how it doesn't have anything to do with my lack of faith.

>>7205089
Does God hate me? Do I really have to be so fedora as to say that I obviously don't think he's a real thing?

>>7199286
Yes, backwards and forwards, inside and out when I was a wee lad because I grew up in a church that really valued biblical scholarship. It's overrated in every aspect except influence. There's better wisdom in the Classical Greek tradition, better poetry in the damned New Yorker and a the mental gymnastics apologists and theologians go through to make a coherent statement of it are astounding exercises in sophistry.

>>7192987
That you have to delude yourself to really believe in God but it feels nice so you should try it out.

>>7110216
Yes, after reading the shit out of it throughout my childhood and youth, I can assure you that it's not a useful historical document.

>>6665954
It's for normies.

>>6626530
>smarter males
No, just the weak ones. Plenty of smart guys getting their alpha on out there.