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>This project argues that trade is the origin of most problems: from climate change to slavery, waste and pollution, corruption, crime, you name it.

>I sure do love sometimes eating exotic food imported from other parts of Earth.
<Do you know that by eating imported food via trade you are causing climate change, corruption and slavery?
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Atheists (for the most part) are rebellious Christians.

They reveal their underlying assumptions when they say things like "40% chance you would have been born an African".

If you're not religious then there is no "you" before you're born (or technically: conceived)...
It's funny because was not raised religious, so for me at an instinctive level, the idea of dying and meeting Saint Peter is kind of on par with the idea of dying and meeting Vishnu or something...

That said, to the extent Christianity teaches people not to be dumb, I fully recognize its utility.

So as much as I have difficulty imagining how it is to believe there's a fundamental truth which is Jesus, I have an even HARDER time imagining what it would be like to accept the baseline assumptions of Christianity (the soul, hell, etc), but to actively rebel against the teaching.

Shitlib-Atheism is such a weird mentality to me...

I'd say Christianity's spiritual framework is dynamic enough to provide a beneficial common morality while not being so culturally stifling that it represses innovators and out-of-the-box thinking. The Vatican's historical role as both an archival guardian of human knowledge and patron of scientific advancement cannot be understated.

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