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1. Astrology was debated even longer and also still exists. It's not an argument.

2. I'm not claiming to be genious. In fact I was pretty hardcore Catholic for like 22 years before I stopped lying to myself.

> You seem to forget that Egypt

Genociding Phillites' kids because some adult Egyptians were killing Jews is evil.

> The Canaanites, for example, practiced child sacrifice to Molek

Their infants did?



> before I stopped lying to myself

Yeah, no; you found something the church called a sin that you could not, or did not, want to overcome.

> Genociding Phillites' kids because some adult Egyptians were killing Jews is evil.

If evil is only an opinion of mind, who is to say? Russians call Ukrainians evil; Ukrainians call Russia evil; both kill the other. In your opinion, it was evil; but if you were forced between accepting a genocide against yourself on one hand, or fleeing and causing a genocide to survive, you may have different opinions.


> Yeah, no; you found something the church called a sin that you could not, or did not, want to overcome.

what a convenient all-purpose dismissal of any experiences that challenge your view




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