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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School September 21st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 1 month agoJake,
Simon isn’t it presumptively bad faith to silence someone> I mean maybe not if it is the far left and the speaker is opposed to the lefty mythology. Or if it is Trump it is always in good faith to silence his opposition.
You do bring up a great point, albeit in a different thread. What is meant by “good faith” and “bad faith?”. And how c…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic December 15, 1791 in the forum
The Atheist Agora 1 year, 1 month agoReg:
The goal should not be the absence of disagreement, but the presence of robust dialogue.
And preferably over a cup of robust Nescafé:
Of course, Goya’s Warning System has broken down when people get shot over their spoken thought or have their broadcast licenses pulled in the name of…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School September 21st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 1 month agoSimon isn’t it presumptively bad faith to silence someone> I mean maybe not if it is the far left and the speaker is opposed to the lefty mythology. Or if it is Trump it is always in good faith to silence his opposition.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic December 15, 1791 in the forum
The Atheist Agora 1 year, 1 month agoReg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The goal should not be the absence of disagreement, but the presence of robust dialogue.Likewise, it’s unproductive to seek to silence people we disagree with, in good faith. It’s more productive to engage with them and debate.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer started the topic December 15, 1791 in the forum
The Atheist Agora 1 year, 1 month agoCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The First Amendment was also the first “U.S. aid” to humanity. Not aid in…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School September 21st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 1 month agoJake,
Enco i don’t see it.
I read a book about the Concordat and it is fuzzy now but the support from both Lutheran and Catholic Church was strong. Yet it was not i think indispensable. You might wonder what would have happened if it had been denounced by either superstition.
Thing is irrational thoughts tend to come in bunches, and tend to r…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School September 21st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 1 month agoRobert,
As if city life is worse now than the 60s and 70s. Then the cities were deprived of funds during the decades long white exodus out to the burbs but when that was found the be too boring, the trend reversed and wealthy whites wanted back in, redevelopment and rents went up, the propaganda started when Karens and Kens smelled too much…
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Well, Benjamin, here's your Palestinian State in the forum Politics 1 year, 1 month ago
PopeBeanie,
I’m noticing that the opinionator you speak of represents, in ratio, about the same representative minority of atheists we might see in a roomful of Americans. I mean there’s some kind of fallacy of logic here, maybe like “appeal to authority”.
I’m not sure what the representative minority of Atheists in a roomful of America…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Well, Benjamin, here's your Palestinian State in the forum Politics 1 year, 1 month ago
TheEncogitationer wrote:
Said by no one here but you. POOF! Begone, Vaporman maker!I’m noticing that the opinionator you speak of represents, in ratio, about the same representative minority of atheists we might see in a roomful of Americans. I mean there’s some kind of fallacy of logic here, maybe like “appeal to authority”.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School September 21st 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 1 month agoEnco i don’t see it.
I read a book about the Concordat and it is fuzzy now but the support from both Lutheran and Catholic Church was strong. Yet it was not i think indispensable. You might wonder what would have happened if it had been denounced by either superstition.
If you want to assert that all of the necessary conditions were in place…[Read more]
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