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Atheists & Agnostics

Farmer-Rick

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3. As a child, when we started studying Egypt in school I expected lots of info on Jewish slaves.

Reply to Binkie The Clown (Original post)

Tue Dec 31, 2019, 11:06 AM

Dec 2019

And was amazed when there was none.

I think I stopped believing in any religion right there at 12.

Arguments with my classmates about this notable absence led to several fights. I learned to keep quiet about logic after that.

This is how religion turns otherwise intelligent people into ignorant superstitious authoritarian voters.

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Nothing Fails like Biblical History [View all] Binkie The Clown Dec 2019 OP

what is the point? lapfog_1 Dec 2019 #1

Moses keithbvadu2 Dec 2019 #2

As a child, when we started studying Egypt in school I expected lots of info on Jewish slaves. Farmer-Rick Dec 2019 #3

I was seven when the nuns in my catholic school told me I was evil... Binkie The Clown Dec 2019 #4

You had what we use to call good sense Farmer-Rick Dec 2019 #5