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Major Nikon

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8. Considerably more have wised up

Reply to Christ-and-Christ-al (Reply #6)

Tue Mar 24, 2020, 08:52 PM

Mar 2020

The worm has turned for far more people in that regard. Organized religion is dying a slow death in the US just as it has in many other civilized places and despite those who wish to make up obviously nonsense stories and spread them on social media, statistics paint a much clearer image of what's actually happening. As usual, reason triumphs over superstition, willful deceit, and wishful thinking.

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Been seeing this gem of a chain letter passed around on Facebook. [View all] AtheistCrusader Mar 2020 OP

Two of my family members gave up their religion on their deathbeds Just_Vote_Dem Mar 2020 #1

Desperate times customerserviceguy Mar 2020 #2

xian liars always make up these deathbed conversion lies Aquaria Mar 2020 #3

Didn't do that priest much good. Cartoonist Mar 2020 #4

I always thought we should have been building more hospitals and fewer churches. Pope George Ringo II Mar 2020 #5

A Journalist is researching... Christ-and-Christ-al Mar 2020 #6

And Many Believers Have Lost Faith And Ceased Belief In God, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2020 #7

Considerably more have wised up Major Nikon Mar 2020 #8

Ah, more 'no atheists in foxholes' bigotry. AtheistCrusader Mar 2020 #9

Go away Act_of_Reparation Mar 2020 #11

Dr. Julian Urban oja Mar 2020 #10

Anyone With Much Experience Of Hospitals And Intensive Care Wards, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2020 #12

I really wanted to make this point in the original FB venue I spotted the story in AtheistCrusader Mar 2020 #15

This letter was the bulk of our local Archbishop's homily in today's livestreamed mass. Eugene Mar 2020 #13

It's definitely got legs. AtheistCrusader Mar 2020 #14