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Is Trump the antichrist? — and other hard questions Christians should be asking (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Blasphemy was a crime in England during Newton’s time. He was literally forbidden from asking questions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you think blasphemy laws prevented Renaissance and Enlightenment Europeans from questioning Christianity then... uh... yeah.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So if we banned religion and then bragged about how all the greatest people of our time are atheists, you’d be ok with that so long as a few people keep their faith anyway?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

If I then tried to imply all atheists are dumb and only enlightened religious people are smart, yes "all the greatest people of our time are atheists" would be a great rebuttal in that situation. I never said that, though, so that's a moot point.