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Given how much John Smith plagiarized the KLV and aped its writing style, I don’t see how they couldn’t.

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"Holding her tits on a tray"...as one does. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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"Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him that we may preserve our family through our father.”So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. On the following day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve our family through our father.” So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger arose and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father. Genesis 19:30-38

Too many in the magical magaverse was taking this as a directive, methinks.

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It's always fun asking these kinds of people exactly what their worst case scenario would look like. Usually they can't articulate it coherently; and if they can, it's something milquetoast* like "My son would be allowed to wear a dress to school!!!!1!" and they canNOT understand why that doesn't freak everybody else out.

*See what I did there 😆?

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Especially since, generally, said horse or donkey is ejaculating into another horse or donkey. Seeing the results takes effort.

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To be fair, a lot of those cases are actually one side said "I want what you have, and "God says I can kill you and take it" is a convenient justification for killing you and taking it".

Oppressors and dictators gonna oppress and dictate. If religion is a convenient excuse and way to get the rubes fired up, they'll preach religion. If religion isn't gonna fly, they'll preach Lebensraum or We're Liberating Russian People from Ukrainian Nazis or Make America Great Again.

I'm not arguing that Religion generally and Christianity particularly has been a net positive to the world. But nor do I think its absence would make the world much better. I think all the arseholes would just find a different excuse.

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So Christianity IS a cult. Nice.

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Are you telling me cats are NOT demons? I thought that was generally accepted.

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Important nuance. No arguments here.

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Banning or burning the ending is the same.

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Better ban the history of missouri while you're at it. Don't want the kids learning what a murdering thieving cult the Mormons were before they moved to the promised land.Then once in Utah they snuffed a lot of native people who inconveniently lived there.

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I recall telling a bible thumper about Lot being seduced by his daughters in the bible. They argued me up and down it wasn't until I handed them the verse and told them to look that shit up. At least they had to decency to admit I was right, but man, do they even know what they claim to support?

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My ex-wife had all three of the movies on DVD- there is a reason why she is my ex-wife

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Then don't watch the "Fountainhead" movie, in which Gary Cooper, of all people, gives a 7-minute uninterrupted courtroom speech

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No one's ever found the "golden Plates" Joseph Smith supposedly transcribed the Book of Mormon from... just sayin'...

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At least athiests can't use "God told me to" as an excuse

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