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Aspartame | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The Church didn’t birth the Scriptures.

Vatican I, one of your own ecumenical councils, explicitly rejects this idea.

Roman Catholics are so desperate that they slander their own religion just to lead more people to Satan ☠️
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Quentel | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Sometimes it's not obvious why you bother with some of these people. They argue in bad-faith and seem to only be interested in capturing your time. They're either jews trying to lead others astray, get paid to cause confusion, or they're engaging in 'sports-team' Catholicism.
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Aspartame | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It’s fun.
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Aspartame | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You’re right, it is 100% a psudeo-intellectual version of sports for them.

It’s not about what’s true, it’s about how they can plausibly slander everyone else in a way that stupid people won’t notice.

Then I, someone who went beyond the entry level polemic, come along and burst their bubble, hence the fun.
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Quentel | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Sometimes it can be funny and entertaining. The ending is almost always the same and the patterns that lead up to the ending often follow the same trajectory though. It always seems to end with some version of: 'We're done here, good day, sir'.
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Aspartame | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I like being able to flex that I know easily accessible facts that disprove their entire worldview, that they would know if they bothered to open a book once a year.