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Tony Scott's avatar

Excellent summary and refresher for this history. And the little funny asides made for great reading.

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Charles Bastille's avatar

Thank you!

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Ellen Pepper's avatar

Hot damn, you're good at this writing gig. I'm impressed by the breadth of knowledge you bring to your work. It's a relief to know that I'm not the only one who takes all of history into account when looking at the current events. Actually, it's comforting.

Thank you for this informative essay.

I don't find much benefit to organized religions so I have not allied myself to any of them. I find they do more harm than good for humans. However, I strongly believe in personally doing as much good as possible and trying not to cause harm. Admittedly, I'm not yet completely skilled with the latter.

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Charles Bastille's avatar

Thanks, Ellen, much appreciated. As you can see, I’m a bit slow on replying to comments, lol.

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Yakutat@‘94's avatar

Now we know the rest of the story

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Charles Bastille's avatar

It keeps changing, lol.

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lunafaer (she/they)'s avatar

i’ve been agnostic since i was eight and the hypocrisy of religion (all religion) got to be too much for my neurodivergent, justice centered brain to handle.

i’m pretty sure if you tried to kill your kid today, and claimed “god said so”, you’d be locked up and considered an attempted murderer. (maybe not in utah).

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Charles Bastille's avatar

“maybe not in Utah,” lol. :-)

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lunafaer (she/they)'s avatar

i’ve been agnostic since i was eight and the hypocrisy of religion (all religion) got to be too much for my neurodivergent, justice centered brain to handle.

i’m pretty sure if you tried to kill your kid today, and claimed “god said so”, you’d be locked up and considered an attempted murderer (maybe not in utah).

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